[Laura Shore] Slash: Paper Under the Knife just opened at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. This new exhibit takes the pulse of the international art world’s renewed interest in paper. Here, paper is presented as its own creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, in a wonderfully diverse range of art forms.
Slash is the third exhibition in MAD’s Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. One section of the exhibition focuses on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture; another highlights the use of cut paper for film and video animations.
The work in the exhibit is inventive, provocative and inspiring to the paper-obsessed. Whether or not you can make it to New York before April 4, 2010, check out the MAD website. You’ll find images, a video of exhibit highlights by chief curator David Revere McFadden – and an invitation to submit artwork for a cut paper animation film festival.
Image: Artist: Andreas Kocks, Paperwork #701G, 2007, Photo: Christoph Knoch
