Artist Folds Photographs Into Endless Geometric Sculptures
by The Daily Eye Team March 30 2016, 3:39 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 40 secsGerman artist Christiane Feser cuts and folds photographs into expansive, abstract panoramas. Her U.S. solo debut at Los Angeles’s Von Lintel Gallery stages a diverse series of these Photoobjects. Hanging on the walls of the gallery in white frames, the patterned paperscapes play tricks on the eye, reading as a 3D effect on a flat surface from one vantage point, then revealing their sculptural layers from another.
In Partition 46, a web of open cubes grow darker and darker in the center of the composition, like a deep vortex ready to absorb the viewer. The sharp angles of Partition 44 seem to swirl around on the surface, while Partition 42 resembles a crowded architectural model, like a bird’s eye view of an impossibly dense suburban landscape