Thanks to Bored Panda we came across the work of Peter Callesen, an artist who creates amazingly intricate sculptures out of single sheets of paper. “It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today, but we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper,” he explains. “[It] is perhaps as close to nothing as you can get. Using this worthless material gives me as artist a greater freedom to deal with heavy subjects and to fill the paper with more dramatic stories.” Click through to check it out.
Looking back, 2006
Impenetrable Castle, 2005
Half Way Through, 2006
Snowballs (detail), 2005
White Hand, 2007
Eismeer, 2006
The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow, 2006
Little Erected Ruin, 2007
Down the River, 2005
Resurrection, 2008