Impressive, Life-Size Cardboard Sculptures of Everyday Objects

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Cardboard wizard and Italy-based artist Chris Gilmour creates life-size replicas of various objects, religious icons, vehicles, and musical instruments using nothing but the cheap, brown material. “I choose objects for their visual appeal and cultural resonance, but I also usually choose objects which imply an action or interaction of some sort,” he recently told Beautiful/Decay. “The interaction of the viewer with the works seems to function as a kind of short circuit between an implied action and the impossibility of performing it: you want to open the car door, or turn the wheel on the bike, but of course you can’t. I think this immediacy is important to enter the work, to grab the viewer.” Definitely a touch frustrating, but most certainly compelling. We’ve shared several of Gilmour’s impressively constructed cardboard artworks past the break.

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

Copyright Chris Gilmour, photo by Marco De Palma

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