Chris Gilmour, "The Triumph of Good and Evil", 2009. Cardboard, glue # 70 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 39 3/8 in. (It's life-sized!)

Slash: Paper Under the Knife is an extraordinary exhibit.  In this exhibit, now showing at the MAD Museum (aka the Museum of Arts and Design) through April 2010, artists use different forms of paper and push them to their limits.  If the main concept is to see how far art can go using only paper, the artists in this exhibit succeed exceptionally.

As I was walking through the exhibit there were many artists that stood out to me.  One was Chris Gilmour.  He created this masterful piece called The Triumph of Good and Evil.  The entire sculpture is made of cardboard but you wouldn’t know by the amount of detail that Gilmour was able to construct. He forms beautiful shapes, a distinguished theme and has exceptional craftsmanship for one only using this material.  From his sculpture you are immediately able to tell that Gilmour was fully committed to his work.

Another piece that caught my eye in the many was called Tunnel Books by Andrea Dezsö. It has a series of different pictures that all depict a dark theme.  From Dezsö’s design you get the feeling that she is trying to tell a story.  Although her piece is original, it is one that makes you think.  You feel that all of these pictures are trying to illustrate the cold and bitterness of society.  With titles like, Another Finger Cutting in which she portrays a human finger being cut off to Falling of Flying from the Windows which illustrates a woman preparing to commit suicide, you recognize the darkness that Dezsö is trying to portray. In general this exhibit is one that is incomparable to any other. So if you have yet gone to visualize these wonderful pieces of art, you should go while they are still on display because you will not be disappointed.

Read a short interview with Andrea Dezsö here.
He’s a short video of her talking about and showing her Tunnel Books: