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ECO ARRIVALS also picked up on my Artforum Excavations.

Francesca Pastine’s The ArtForum Excavation Series is seriously artistic

 

 

The NYC-born, San Francisco-based artist Francesca Pastine loves to bring myriad landscapes, socio-political issues, feminine sensibilities and peculiarly modernistic responsiveness to the fore through her incomparable paintings. However, the artist has another knack for creating remarkable artworks out of discarded magazines. The ArtForum Excavation Series demonstrates magazine art in all its glory. 

 

The sculptural pieces of art are created out of ARTFORUM magazine pages. The artist neatly cuts around the paper, while making sure that chosen book parts remain intact to reveal explicitly intricate artistic patterns inside the frame. As Pastine puts it, her manipulations revolve around the central theme of exploring “curious juxtapositions”. Considering the fact that her X-acto blade is the only equipment that helps her create her art, you will go into raptures over the final versions. Browse through the gallery to unravel mysteries behind Francesca Pastine’s exemplary magazine art:

Inhabititat Magazine Reviews My Work

Francesca Pastine Carves Artforum Magazines to Make Amazing Sculptural Topographies

by Morgana Matus, 01/07/13

The arts and culture publication Artforum may be used to commenting on the world of museums and galleries, but now they find themselves as the work of art itself. In her Artforum Excavation Series, Francesca Pastine carves the magazines to form colorful, sculptural pieces that seem to melt down the wall, fold in on themselves, and form sculptural structures. Using an Xacto blade, the San Francsico-based artist painstakingly carved each page creating what she calls "unsolicited collaborations."

Read more: Francesca Pastine Carves ArtForum Magazines to Make Amazing Sculptural Topographies | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Reinhold Fiege from me-magazine did a write up on my work.  Thank you Reinhold!