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I’m simply awed by the paper art of Andreas Kocks.

Notes  about the artist by Wilhelm Warning  (retrieved from article, “Outside of Sculpture, Outside of Drawing and Outside of Time.”):

I think for me what is the most improbable, and thus enjoyable and provocative, is that the actual works – made of simple cut lines and graceful negative spaces in white or black – are so emotional.  They burst with a barely constrained and refined unconscious jolt. For me, Andreas Koks has somehow, in this weird and unexpected act of representation, unleashed from a history which began as resistant or even antagonistic, found a place where power can be unearthed without threat, where violence can be contemplative, where ferocious acts can be redemptive and where an image might tender the hope its process of creation offers.

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