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3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?
3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?
3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?
3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?
3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?

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The promise you made Collage

Paola Bazz

Italy

Collage, Paper on Cardboard

Size: 49.6 W x 49.6 H x 2.4 D in

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3D portrait collage created using printed-paper recycled from magazine, catalogues, leaflet etc. Paper is manipulated, transformed, selected, cut and folded into small or large concertinas that result in big pixels with a squared base. These big pixels are placed within a rigid grid and glued onto a cardboard base. The image obtained, is readable or highly distorted, depending on our point of view. I hope my work to be visually and intellectually engaging. I want the viewer to establish a continuous cross-reference between the messages contained in the paper of individual “concertinas” and the overall image. I intend to analyse the extent to which the human mind is able to rebuild an image, which is processed to such an extent that it almost becomes an abstract composition forcing the viewer to engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible and encouraging different ways to look at things. Two pieces (126x63 cm each) ready to hang. No framing required. This work represent the story of a young boy who promises to himself to become, when grown up, a better man compared with the adults with whom he lives every day. Along the way he loses and finds the thread of this project, he meets good and bad people, wise and unwise, people to imitate or to avoid. Eventually, looking back and in an effort to piece together the fragments of his memories, he thinks over the promise he made, again … How good or bad is this man now: has he kept his promise?

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Multi-paneled Collage:

Paper on Cardboard

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

49.6 W x 49.6 H x 2.4 D in

Number of Panels:

2

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I am an anglo-italian artist based in Italy. I create art across the digital and physical realms exploring the concept of ‘Identity’ using different media, from 3d physical paper collage portraits to NFTs avatars (ed. The Other Avatars first NFTs Saatchi Art project). Art and Creativity have always been a form of escapism and survival for me, a kind of virtual world where to find peace. The Virtual/Digital and the Real/Physical are part of my practice. The main material for my physical works is usually recycled paper that I repurpose from magazines, books, catalogues etc.. Paper is a very interesting and complex material in itself, but it becomes more intriguing when printed, as it turns into a binder of messages. Having been trained as an architect, I can’t help myself from planning each of my works. I have developed different techniques and I like to choose the one that intuitively attracts me in that moment, to balance the other very rational approach to planning. The subjects of my works are often chosen around the topic of identity, including its continuous transformation, its intangibility and its cryptic nature. My choice of people as subjects - either ordinary or celebrities - is aimed at exploring the inadequacy of a portrait to describe that person. With an image, it is possible to fix only a fragment of the complex nature of their identity. Printed-paper steeped with fragmented messages is, therefore, the perfect medium to represent this complex, fragile and ungraspable nature. Using everyday objects such as paper, I also want people to investigate into our consumerist society where we conceive our goals in life through acquiring goods that we do not need and where our identity is defined by what we buy and exhibit. Like our identities, my portraits are fluid and mobile, and our perception of them changes as we move around them. From up close, the subjects become abstract compositions, making the viewer engage with matters beyond what is immediately visible, and through this I try to raise public awareness about other issues relating to our environment, our privacy and the complex notion of time too.

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