Facilities of playing cards before the fragile and unreliable, that the popular expression "crumbled like a house of cards" has long been used when it is necessary to point out the fragility of any ideas, hopes and expectations.However, there are craftsmen in the world, which under force to restrain unruly cards and create from them something special, amazing, exquisite and durable.Details - in our small survey.
1. Sculptures Brian Berg (Brian Berg)
No glue, no tape, no staples, - only the method of selection of the ideal situation and determining the center of gravity "of cards sculptor" Bryan Berg (Brian Berg) builds itsstunning sculptures.It's just some kind of magic, nothing else!But it makes the card obey him not to move and not to fall, and thus erects skyscrapers, palaces, fortresses and even a miniature Olympic Village.
2. House of Cards from Leeds University
Alas, who is the author of balancing stunning house of cards, will appear in Leeds University in Fine Art Degree Show in 2006, failed to learn.But it is clear that the cards had tight - to build the whole structure, and not let it fall apart, out of the corner of his master notched paper "bricks" and thus hold them together into one whole.
3. Flying Alligator Shanghai
hard to say, looking at the pictures, how Shanghai craftsmen masters of the beast, how many hundreds of decks took them to his "construction" and as, indeed, are bonded to each other cards.One thing is clear: to build a flying alligator took a team of creators gather in a fist all his perseverance, and the Chinese stock remarkable patience - it's so delicate and painstaking work.
4. Card Art Lisa Curtis (Lisa Curtis)
And this work, though not sculpture, and installation, or, as the author calls it, Lisa Curtis (Lisa Curtis), a collage of cards, also deserves attention.For this collage she had to "spoil" a few dozen decks, carefully bending the corners and building the resulting composition of colors and sizes.It turned out, perhaps not so big, as the previous authors, but it is also quite interesting.
Articles Source: kulturologia.ru
