aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
all images courtesy of aldo tolino

by weaving, creasing and tucking the surface of a paper sheet, austrian artist aldo tolino creates geometric mutations of human portraits. the distortions generate new facial representations, expressions, and personalities,  translating the original picture into a manipulated deformity. polygonic shapes that are formed on the closed plane transform noses, eyes, and mouths into abstract configurations, composing sculptural reinterpretations of the flat medium. the three-dimensional portrayals reconsider paper as a material by rendering it as a structural artwork.

an image from ‘kühle streicher – facial landscapes’

layered panels of paper are materialized as facial contortions, pinching the nose into an abstract shape and both enlarging and decreasing the size of the eyes.

one face from the ‘pro und kontrabass’ series

a portrait of the ‘pro und kontrabass’ series

a face from the ‘filter-(t)raum’ series

portrait from the ‘filter-(t)raum’ series

from the ‘faust als marionettentheater’ series

‘eine (nette?) geste der zeit’

stitched portrait from the ‘genussregion ex machina’ series

multi layers of faces from ‘philharmonie – letzte gelegenheit!’

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