03
FROM MUNDANE TO LUXURIOUS
WOVEN
BECOMING BAROQUE
AS FINE AS VELVET
TROMPE L’OEIL LUXURY
Rough, ragged, and corrugated, cardboard has a utilitarian reputation that is not often associated with luxury or fine materials. Despite its association with being disposable, some artists are able to transform the brown and pulpy into pristine and glossy sculptures, looking so luxe that its original properties are betrayed. Through glosses, paints, tools, and techniques, cardboard is elevated to a new level of appreciation, as an element of beauty. Ann Weber’s enormous sculptures are woven from strips of cardboard, then coated in paint or gloss, looking like fine reeds or even ceramic. Jillian Salik ...
Get The Art of Cardboard now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
