{"id":33871,"date":"2019-06-06T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33871"},"modified":"2019-06-05T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T23:29:57","slug":"matt-shlian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/matt-shlian\/","title":{"rendered":"matt shlian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33872\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33872\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mattshlian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mattshlian.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/mattshlian-39x300.jpg 39w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sooooo<\/em>, apparently this is paper. What? Yes. These meticulous pieces are the work of American artist \/ paper engineer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattshlian.com\"> Matt Shlian<\/a>. I wrote about him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/im-jealous-matt-shlian\/\">way back in 2010<\/a>&#8230; he was good then, but now? Whoa.\u00a0Here is part of Matt&#8217;s artist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;As a paper engineer, my work is rooted in print media, book arts and commercial design. Beginning with an initial fold, a single action causes a transfer of energy to subsequent folds, which ultimately manifest in drawing and three dimensional forms &#8230; He begins with a system of folding and at a particular moment the material takes over. Guided by wonder, his work is made because he cannot visualize its final realization; in this way he comes to understanding through curiosity.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His latest show, titled <strong>&#8220;Relief&#8221;, opens this SATURDAY JUNE 8th <em>{2pm}<\/em><\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duranmashaalgallery.com\">Duran Mashaal Gallery<\/a> in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooooo, apparently this is paper. What? Yes. These meticulous pieces are the work of American artist \/ paper engineer Matt Shlian. I wrote about him way back in 2010&#8230; he was good then, but now? Whoa.\u00a0Here is part of Matt&#8217;s artist statement: &#8220;As a paper engineer, my work is rooted in print media, book arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33873,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33871\/revisions\/33873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}