There’s no app for what Nashville-based artist Daniel Lai does with books. He folds back pages, bends the covers back till they touch, cuts out shapes and inserts foreign objects — in this case, small figures. What he does is transform books into astounding pieces of sculpture. A new collection of Lai’s book pieces, all wall sculptures, is on view in Connecting the Dots at Estel Gallery through Aug. 27.

Lai exhibited similar works in a 2008 show at the Downtown Public Library, and has taken the concept further with this new series.

With their dust jackets removed, the books’ covers provide the only color — forest green, bright red, blue — in the exhibition, which otherwise has a limited palette of black, white and cream.

Even the simplest of Lai’s compositions are complex. The pages are often folded in more than one direction, and in Bird , for example, the base is two intersecting cones of folded pages; the rhythm of the text-covered pages is broken by the glossy paper and dark tones of a photo insert.

Источник: The Tennessean

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