Peter Gentenaar 01/30/14

     Peter Gentenaar is a Dutch artist who creates 3D paper sculptures. He started as a print maker but then started getting frustrated with the paper he was using so he decided to start making his own. His works are created by reinforcing the paper with bamboo and then allowing the paper to dry and shrink at the same time. He is inspired by the material itself and allows the material to shape his work.
     I enjoy his work because of the organic, free-flowing feel that the shape and forms embody.Though what I'm curious about is how much of it, at least when he started out, was intentional. In working with the material so much now does he just now what the paper will do, or is it part of the work to let the paper just do it's thing and become the work on it's own? If it is all planned out, how long did it take to understand the material and how it would work the way in which it does?
 

  I also don't have a title for this one. I know that his works are normally on a larger scale. This work just seems to intricate, like it's almost a drawing with all of the lines that you can see in it.With the different values of color it just seems to create it's own depth just in the line and color.












No title again. For the most part I think a lot of his works look similar. They are all in that same flowing shape with some color variation. So I don't have a specific case as to why I like this work specifically. I personally just like the fact that it's displaying in a cathedral/church. It seems like the work is put in high esteem to be put in such a place.







Source:
-Gentenaar, Peter. "Paper Objects". Web: www.gentenaar-torlet.nl/index.php/peter-gentenaar. 30 Jan. 2014.
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