paper sculptures of peter callesen

a while back a friend sent me this link to a series of incredible paper cutouts purporting to be the entries in a contest run by the hirschhorn museum. here's a youtube version of the "viral e mail" of callesen's work . as you can see, it's very, very clever stuff and sent me scurrying around the net looking at the work of paper cutout artists. more recently i came across the work of an artist whose work is almost entirely represented in the series of images connected to that contest so i thought i'd start with the work of this talented, creative and way cool man - peter callesen.

"alive but dead":
"alive but dead". detail:
"alive but dead". detail two:

"distant wish". detail

wander around his site and you will never look at a piece of a4 paper the same way again.