Unfolding Paper

[Randy W]

from CCTV Artist transforms classical art with paper

 

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38-year-old Chinese artist places his hands on one, lifts gently, and what had seemed

like solid plaster transforms into a live, amorphous mass. A Roman soldier stretches

like elastic, a pretty English maid suddenly rises like a terrible phantasm. They are

neither plaster nor clay, but concertinas of thousands of fine pieces of paper.