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Papercut Art - How a Simple Sheet of DIN A4 Paper can Come to Life

By Tanja van der Made

A thin, blank sheet of DIN A4 paper. Glue. Workmanship. And patience. A whole lot of patience. The Danish artist Peter Callesen cuts stories out of paper. 2D becomes 3D. Sculptures come to life. But they never fully break free from the paper out of which they have been cut; which adds a certain tragedy to the work. See for instance “Birds trying to escape their drawing”.

The Short Distance Between Time and Shadow, 2006, acid free A4 115 gms paper and glue © photo courtesy Helene Nyborg Contemporary

Angel Trying to Escape his Drawing, 2007, acid-free 115 gms A4 paper and glue © photo courtesy Helene Nyborg Contemporary

Pounds of it roll out of printers and photocopiers: DIN A4 paper. What was once a thin, blank sheet is turned into an important carrier of data in no time. The focus is mainly on what is printed on the paper, not on the paper itself, even though a blank sheet has so many stories to tell. Especially if it falls into the hands of Peter Callesen. With his extraordinarily precise cutting technique, he lets three-dimensional sculptures arise from two-dimensional paper. In this way, sculptures come into being, each telling their own story: fairy tales, tragedies, short films.

Bird Trying to Escape, 2005, acid free A4 80 gms paper and glue © photo courtesy Helene Nyborg Contemporary

Birds Trying to Escape Their Drawing, 2005, acid free A4 80 gms paper and glue © photo courtesy Helene Nyborg Contemporary

The three-dimensional creations all have something in common. They stay connected to their own negative, the empty space that is left after the cutting-out. Callesen never lets the figures fully break free from the paper. They all stick to their origin without the possibility of escape. In this way, he lets the sculptures tell another story: the story of their own origin. Of how a thin sheet of DIN A4 paper can develop into a sculpture through a meticulous process of cutting, folding and gluing. But Callesen does not limit his paper cutting art to DIN A4 paper. He also makes large scale papercut installations and framed papercut art.

White Diary, detail, 2008, 115 gsm acid free paper, pencil and sketch book, 244  212  17 cm © photo courtesy Helene Nyborg Contemporary