Folding, cutting, crumpling, and tracing, with paper, cardboard, cloth and plasticine: this is Stefano Arienti's art
Folding, cutting, punching holes, crumpling, and tracing, with paper, cardboard, cloth, and plasticine. Simple manual operations with equally simple materials form the basis of the aesthetic universe of this poet of origami and Archimedes of manipulation, Stefano Arienti.In his hands, these decontextualized objects and materials change form and meaning, and assume new identities: the pieces of paper become little boats, railway timetables intertwine to form a fan, newspapers become recycled as bullets or twist together to make ropes