Paperart is my way of communication with this beautiful world.
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Asya Kozina
paper artist
Asya Kozina is a creative focused on exploring the possibilities of modern paper sculpture. Her interest as a professional artist lies in the field of cultural research, archiving and plastic expression of various historical, traditional and artistic representations. Unique and intricate designs require trying on, insisting on telling your story through limited edition photographs and prints.
The universal white paper is used not only as a tool, but also as a concept to help symbolize the historical process. The images of the Mongolian, African, Scythian, Venetian, Baroque, Modern cultures are easily recognizable and at the same time metaphorical. A paraphrase of the modern understanding of history as a set of events, cleared of the signs of epochs, but often filled with modern emotions and value judgments. Since then, the artist has left a blank paper surface to be eaten by the viewer’s perception.
The plain white sheet works have become the artist’s signature mark. Asya believe that white paper allows for them to accent form and conceal secondary details. All of their pieces are crafted by hand, each unique in its own right, never to be replicated. This individuality forms an opposition to multiplying media images created with the help of digital tools, a representation of modern visual culture. At first glance, one may suspect some of Kozin’s works to be graphically designed through digital means. Happily enough, these projects have been left unaltered by present-day technology, a true representation of craftsmanship.
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| 1984, May 5 | — | born in the Dnepropetrovskaya Oblast, Ukraine |
| 1999 | — | graduated from the Cherkassky Junior Art School |
| 2009 | — | Zavtra.UA scholarship recipient from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine |
| 2010 | — | graduated from the Khmelnitsy Cherkassky National University with a masters from the Visual and Decorative-Applied Art Faculty |
| 2010 | — | winner of the Ukrainian Art Week international competition |
| 2011 | — | lives and works in St. Petersburg |
| 2020 | — | live and work in Cherkassy, Ukraine |
Asya Kozina transforms simple sheets of paper into masterpieces consisting of eccentric wigs and wedding dresses. Photos of intricate paper designs have recently been surfacing all over the web across the world. Asya Kozina from St. Petersburg, is the artist responsible for these timeless creations. She starts from standard Whatman sheets of paper, bought from an ordinary stationary shop. Her work with plain white paper has become the artist’s signature mode of expression, and is the only material which she can experiment tirelessly with. Kozina believes that blank white paper allows for her to accent form while also concealing secondary details. All works are created by hand, and none of the shapes or forms are replicated in later pieces, making each one unique.
A photo shoot is just a memory of an incredible symbiosis. I do not separate the objects of paperart from the model, at the moment of their union they are the culmination of art for me.
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