With Artist Yuken Teruya Trees Come From Paper, Not The Other Way Around.

An artist with a precise and delicate hand, Yuken Teruya's work includes several different series in which tiny and detailed trees are cut from books, toilet paper rolls and disposable bags.

In each bag and roll, the shape of a tree is created without adding or removing anything, just by cutting out and folding the paper from the bag itself. Teruya’s works explore issues such as the growing consumerism of contemporary society, depleting natural resources and other problems associated with globalism, including the threat it poses to localized cultural traditions and identities.

In his Notice – Forest Series, artist Yuken Teruya assembles small delicate trees from the cut out part of disposable bags. Then, he stands each tree in the same bag that it came from.



above: Notice-Forest (Murata & Friends shot), Paper Bag,
Glue 9.1/8” x 3.3/8” x 15.3/4”, 23 cm x 8cm x 40cm
2007, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice- Forest (McDonald’s paper bag), Paper Bag, Glue
6”x 3.1/2” x11”, 18 cm x 8cm x 28cm
2005, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice-Forest (Moma), Moma Paper Bag, Glue
8.1/4” x 4.1/3” x 13.3/8”, 21cm x 12cm x 34 cm
2006, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice- Forest, Paper Bag, Glue
7.1/8” x 3.3/8” x 11”, 18 cm x 8cm x 28cm
2005, Photo Yuken Teruya


above: Notice – Forest exhibition shot, 7 paper bags from different business fields
Glue and bags, dimensions vary, 2005

For his Corner Forest and Rain Forest projects, he cut trees from toilet paper rolls creating both positive and negative images that are equally impressive.

above: Corner Forest, Toilet Paper Rolls, 2006


above: Rain Forest ( Murata & Friends Gallery shot ), Toilet Paper Rolls, 2007

For his Giving Tree Project, Yuken cut and created a tree from the pages of Shel Silverstein's wonderful children's book, The Giving Tree:



above: Giving Tree Project, The Giving Tree Book
7. 7/8” x 11.7/8” x 7. 7/8”, 20cm x 30 cm x 20 cm, 2007

About the artist:

Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973, he received his MFA from the school of Visual Arts, New York in 2001. In 2007, he had a solo exhibition at The Asia Society in New York. His work was included in Greater New York 2005 at P.S.1 Contemporary art Center and was featured in the Yokohama International Triennial. Recent exhibitions include the Kunstwerein Wiesbaden in Germany; Free Fish at Asia Society in New York as well as various gallery exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan. In 2007, his work was featured in Shapes of Space, an exhibition at Guggenheim Museum New York. This fall, his work will be included in “Okinawa” at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.

See all of his work here.

If cut paper art interests you, be sure to see these three artists:


above: the amazing cut paper work of Peter Callesen


above: Helen Musselwhite's cut paper art and illustration


above: Yulia Brodskaya's Paper Graphics

Russian Born Artist Yulia Brodskaya's Paper Graphics

Russian born Yulia Brodskaya is a talented artist, graphic designer, typographer, and most impressively, paper sculptor. Her works are used in both commercial and personal applications and her paper graphics are precious 3D sculptures that incorporate all her talents into one art form. Take a look at some of them:











In light of my recent post about the popularity of Hedgehogs in design, I must share with you her hedgehog illustrations:



About the artist:


Yulia born in Russia where she started out as a fine artist producing contemporary office decoration artwork for Moscow based companies while studying for her first degree in Graphic Design. In 2004 she moved to London, earned her M.A. in Graphic Communication and since then has been busy with parallel careers as an illustrator and a freelance graphic designer.

Awards: 1st prize in the Russian Conceptual Packaging Design Competition; in recognition of typographic achievement she was elected a Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers (2006). Clients include Orange, RedBull, BBH, How2 T-shirts, International Organ Festival, ARMI, Touchnote cards and CUBE magazine.

She says "I'm constantly experimenting and evolving, always pushing my style in new directions: my greatest passion is to explore the ways of combining illustration and typography."

www.artyulia.com

A special thanks to Betsy Wills for pointing out Yulia's work to me!

Contact:e-mail: yulia@artyulia.com

If you like cut paper art, you cannot miss the amazing work of Peter Callesen and Helen Musslewhite

A Woman With A Way With Paper: Meet Artist Helen Musselwhite.

Give Helen Musselwhite a pair of scissors and some colored paper and watch out.
The Uk artist and illustrator creates highly unique and intricate paper sculptures with themes from dogs, birds and woodland creatures to love, hearts and fantasy. She is inspired by nature and daily life to immortalize that around her in intricate paper art that would make great gifts for either children or adults.

Setting That Hirshorn Exhibit Rumor Straight: The Beautiful Paper Art of Peter Callesen

In the past few weeks I've received an odd bogus e-mail about an exhibit at the Hirshorn and what multiple artists have done with one sheet of paper. And not just once. Today was the fourth time! So, clearly this is making the "e-mail rounds". But it's not true. Not a word of it.

I really feel the need to set this straight. There was never an exhibit of this type at the Hirshorn. And all that beautiful work is the art of one talented man, Denmark born Peter Callesen.

So, if you want to start spreading the word about his art, do so from here. And if you get that e-mail? Set the recipient straight.

A4 papercut Project By Peter Callesen.

About my paper works (in Peter's words):
"My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost as a magic process - or maybe one could call it obvious magic, because the process is obvious and the figures still stick to their origin, without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts. Some of the small paper cuts relate to a universe of fairy tales and romanticism, as for instance "Impenetrable Castle" inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", in which a tin soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina, living in a paper castle. Other paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet - dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.

I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By removing all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white 80gsm A4 paper as a base for my creations, I feel that I have found a material which, on one hand, we all are able to relate to, and which on the other hand is non-loaded and neutral and therefore easier to fill with different meanings. The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works."

Resurrection, 2008, Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

White Hand Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

Little Erected Ruin, 2006, Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Half Way Through, 2006, Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

On The Other Side, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Walking Snail, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Cradle, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Do Not Enter, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

Tower of Babel, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Down the River, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


The Dying Swan, 2005, Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Wedding Dress Without Bride, 2005, Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

All in All, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Angel, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Closet, 2006 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Big wave moving towards a small castle made of sand, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Distant Wish, 2006 Acid-free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:


Eismeer, 2006 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Hunting, 2005 Acid-free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

In the Beginning (Snake inside an egg), 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

In the Shadow of an Orchid, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Impenetrable Castle, 2005, Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Looking Back, 2006 Acid free A4 115 gsm paper and glue:

Man Made of Woman, 2005 Acid-free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Pandora's Box, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Snowballs, 2005 Acid free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


Traces in Snow, 2005 Acid-free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Bridge Over Troubled Water, 2005 Acid-free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:

Butterflies Trying To Escape Their Shadow, 2005 Acid-free A4 80 gsm paper and glue:


artist info:
Peter Callesen

Denmark

Peter Callesen is currently working on his own, apart from in Spain where he is represented by Galería Valle Ortí.

This A4 (letter sized paper) project was but one. He has done many other larger and more intricate works that are amazing. This man deserves much credit- and sadly, that internet rumor is depriving him of it.

Go to his site to see this complete project and many more!