أندرو هايز/
アンドリューヘイズ

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source: highlike

Image: Steel, book pages, and brass 16” x 6” x 3” 2013
Photographer: Steve Mann
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source: arteref

O artista Andrew Hayes de Arizona, EUA, combina sua paixão pelo trabalho em metal com o mofo desejo de páginas de livros picadas, torcidas, curvadas. O resultado é uma série de esculturas de formas arquitetônicas de muito bom gosto.

Veja o que ele conta sobre esta sua paixão por livros:

The book is a seductive object to hold and smell and run your fingers through. I am drawn to books for many reasons; however, the content of the book does not enter my work. The pages allow me to achieve a form, surface, and texture that are appealing to me. The book as an object is full of fact and story. I take my sensory appreciation for the book as a material and employ the use of metal to create a new form, and hopefully a new story.
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source: atelier-ad

These ‘altered books’ are beautiful sculptures by Portland-based artists Andrew Hayes who uses metal to transform re-purposed books into incredible works of art. In his own words: “The pages allow me to achieve a form, surface, and texture that are appealing to me. The book as an object is full of fact and story. I take my sensory appreciation for the book as a material and employ the use of metal to create a new form, and hopefully a new story.”
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source: americanstyle

When Andrew Hayes decides which books to purchase at a thrift store, he doesn’t bother opening them. The words inside have no bearing for Hayes; it’s the edges of the pages he’s interested in.

Once he’s back in his Asheville, N.C., studio, Hayes will cut up the book and experiment by bending it into different shapes. “The mass of pages is so appealing and flexible in a way I wish steel were,” he says. Once he finds a shape he particularly likes, he uses metal to bind it into place.

Hayes has been exacting in perfecting his unique approach, working for a time as a welder—“I wanted to make sure metal-working abilities would not interfere with my concept,” he says. And a 2007 fellowship at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina gave him the freedom he needed to focus exclusively on his art.