Chausettes (1989)

Pavlos Dionyssopoulos

paper and perspex

Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre

Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Paper

Physical Object Description:

Drawing of pair of socks on paper. Signed and dated at lower right: pavlos 89; and on reverse: Pavlos 89, PAVLOS

Dimensions:

45.4 x 27.9 x 54.4 cm

Accession Number:

BUYGM.1532.2013

Credit:

Donated by Eric and Jean Cass through the Contemporary Art Society, 2012

Scheme:

Eric and Jean Cass Gift (2010 - 2012)

Ownership history:

Purchased on 4 March 1991 from Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium by Eric and Jean Cass; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Bury Art Museum, 2012

Relationship:

Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-Heist, St Tropez Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre Eric and Jean Cass

Pavlos makes the most unlikely objects from coloured paper. In the mid-1960s he began to develop compositions made from posters cut with a trimmer into strips, forming them into objects such as flowerpot, ashtrays, trees or hats. All manner of things, he found, could be interpreted through folding and curving strips of paper. He also allowed the paper freedom, particularly when forming the undulating contours of landscape or movement in large-scale installations of trees.

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