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Bringing Blank Pages to Life with @maude_alta

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“I love the feel of paper, the immense possibility represented by every blank page,” says paper-carving artist Maude Alta White (@maude_alta), who lives in New York’s Hudson Valley. “I want to have a conversation with the paper, not on the paper.”

Maude begins her pieces with a pencil drawing, meticulously planning the positive and negative space before wielding a craft knife. “Cutting paper is very meditative, and I like the weight and decision of making every cut precise and meaningful,” she says. Creating portraits of women is especially challenging, Maude explains, because she has to connect the eyes, nose and mouth to the overall piece. “That’s why they all have hair blowing across their faces!”

Maude says she always starts in one corner and works her way across to avoid damaging sections as she goes. Some pieces take weeks to finish. “There is nothing quite as wonderful as holding up a piece I’ve cut and being able to see the world through it,” she says.

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100 years of Lina Bo Bardi, architect and designer.

In October 1946 Bo Bardi and her husband traveled to South America.In Rio, they were received by the IAB (Institute of Brazilian Architects).Bardi quickly re-established her practice in Brazil, a country which had a profound effect on her creative thinking. She and her husband co-founded the influential art magazineHabitat.The magazine’s title referenced Bardi’s conceptualization of the ideal interior as a “habitat“ designed to maximize human potential.

In 1947,Assis Chateaubriandinvited Pietro Maria Bardi to establish and run a Museum of Art. São Paulo was chosen despite Bo Bardi’s preference for Rio de Janeiro. MASP (The Museum of Art of São Paulo) was established on 2 October, with temporary offices on the second floor of the headquarters of theDiários Associadoson Rua Sete de Abril. Bo Bardi designed the conversion of the building into a museum. She also designed the new headquarters for the Diários Associados on Rua Álvaro de Carvalho, São Paulo, and designed jewellery using Brazilian gemstones.

In 1948, The Studio d’Arte Palma was established on the 18th floor of a building by Polish architectLucjan Korngold(N˚ 66 Praça Bráulio Gomes, São Paulo), bringing Pietro Maria Bardi, Bo Bardi, Giancarlo Palanti (until 1951) and Valeria Piacentini Cirell (responsible for the antiquarian section) together.

Bo Bardi became a naturalized Brazilian citizen in 1951, the same year she completed her first built work, her own “Glass House” in the new neighborhood of Morumbi.Italian rationalism shaped this first work, but immersed in Brazilian culture her creative thinking began to become moreexpressive.

In 1955 Bo Bardi became a lecturer for the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty at theUniversity of São Paulo.

In 1989, at the age of 74, Bo Bardi was honored with the first exhibition of her work at theUniversity of São Paulo.

Bo Bardi passed away at the Casa de Vidro on 20 March 1992.When she died she left designs for a new São Paulo City Hall and a Cultural Centre forVera Cruz.

Last picture of the set is my take on Lina Bo Bardi’s most famous creation: MASP - Museu de Artes de São Paulo.

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