SCULPTURES MADE OF PAPER

As early as 1912, Pablo Picasso introduced paper as a material with his »guitar«, and in the 1920s, examining how images actually wo rk, it was Kurt Schwitterss works on paper that gave him the idea for a three-dimensional collage: the Merzbau. Since then, paper a s a material has become indispensable in visual, including sculptural works. The Affichists, for instance, tore down posters in the streets of Paris after the Second World War, to create new images collaged from scraps of billboard advertisements. And in the 1960s , paper be...[Read more]