Remarkably elegant and poetic art made of A4 cut paper by Peter Callesen

“I find the A4 sheet of paper interesting to work with, because it probably still is the most common and consumed media and format for carrying information today, and in that sense it is something very loaded. This means that we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper.”

“Paper cuts are small dramas in which small figures are lost within and threatened by the huge powerful nature. Others again are turning the inside out, or letting the front and the back of the paper meet – dealing with impossibility, illusions, and reflections.

In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in most of the cuts.”

“The thin white paper also gives the paper sculptures a fragility which underlines the tragic and romantic theme of the works.”