Have a look at this brilliant article on one of our artists, Pierre Julien, in todays Metro newspaper,page 3.
It's full of some rather interesting puns, some stretching the English language to capacity.
"He rolls the pioneering popular free paper into 3,000 matchstick-sized tubes, glues them and covers them in varnish.
‘Each animal takes about a month to build,’ he said. ‘When you are working on such a minute scale you have to be extremely patient, making sure each tube is placed correctly.’
‘Each year more and more animals are added to the endangered list and unless we do something to stop it, we will lose some of our most treasured species included the polar bear, tiger, elephant, gorilla, giraffe and black bears.
‘It’s almost unimaginable that we have allowed these great animals to get to the brink of extinction,’ added Mr Julien from London.
The menagerie, named Endangered Species, is at the Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia, west London until Friday. There’s only one thing missing, a paper tiger."
If you would like to see Pierre Julien's menagerie, including his paper Tiger, it will be on show in the gallery until Friday 23rd December.After that the collection will be moving to The Rectory Gallery for Menagerie at the Rectory http://www.therectorygallery.com/ until 9th March. Call Curwen Gallery for more information on 0207 323 4700.
Its so great that these animals are getting the publicity they deserve- I hope many more people will come and see these unique sculptures.
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