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.

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
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.

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
one face from the ‘pro und kontrabass’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
a portrait of the ‘pro und kontrabass’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
a face from the ‘filter-(t)raum’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
portrait from the ‘filter-(t)raum’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
from the ‘faust als marionettentheater’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
‘eine (nette?) geste der zeit’

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
stitched portrait from the ‘genussregion ex machina’ series

 

 

aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
multi layers of faces from ‘philharmonie – letzte gelegenheit!’

 

 

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aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 
aldo tolino folds portraits into geometric facial landscapes
 

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