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Based on an 800-year-old tradition of paper folding, modern origami has grown into a highly sophisticated international art form. Paper Transformed: Origami brings together nearly one hundred works by some of the world’s leading contemporary origami artists and demonstrates the diversity of technique and wide range of interpretation possible in origami today.
For at least 400 years, the Japanese have been folding paper for pleasure. Creasing a thousand cranes out of white paper (the only kind originally available) was thought to bring good luck. Before 1900, there were rarely more than thirty folds in origami patterns; now there may be hundreds—yet only one piece of paper may be used and it cannot be cut or glued. Whatever the final product, it must come from the original piece of paper. Nothing is added and nothing taken away. Although the advent of computer technology has expanded the ways in which patterns can be created today, this is still the essence of origami.
This exhibition will afford visitors an opportunity not only to admire a breathtaking expanse of large- and small-scale works but also to create their own. Renowned origami expert Florence Temko has produced several unique folding patterns for visitors to use in the galleries.
Date: 4/6/08
- 6/22/08
Time: Please Call
Region:
Hamptons to Montauk/Southfork
Event classification:
Arts & Culture
Event Location
The Parrish Art Museum
25 Job's Lane
Southampton, NY
Suffolk County
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Phone: (631) 283-2118
Fax: (631) 283-7006
Email: fergusone@parrishart.org
Website: www.parrishart.org
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