New Zealander Peter Madden's sculptural installations begin life as
flat imagery, which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional
objects. Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias - National
Geographic magazines are a favourite - Madden slices out the illustrations,
then reassembles them in fantastical constructions. The denuded books are kept
- pages intact in their spines, rustling with empty spaces - for possible
future works.
Although Madden works from second-hand imagery, he often
uses photography as a metaphor when discussing his practice.
'I'm not a photographer standing on the edge of the
world,' Madden has said. 'In my work, I'm cutting into a body of knowledge,
poetically releasing the images.'
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