Cardboard Art

Cardboard is a generic term for a heavy-duty paper of various strengths, ranging from a simple arrangement of a single thick sheet of paper to complex configurations featuring multiple corrugated and uncorrugated layers.

Cardboard in art is used in different forms and states. Often artists find that discarded and old cardboard, like the one found on the streets, is best suitable for their visualized critical attacks on contemporary consumerist culture and high art, while for others the condition of material, being either found, reused or new, is emptied out of contextual meaning and serves for pure aesthetic explorations. The modes and tools used for the manipulation of recycled cardboard are relatively simple, and include scissors, glue, and X-Acto blades, among others. Material itself can be manipulated in different ways in design, arts and crafts, not just by cutting, painting, bending, gluing or combining of pieces together, but also through manipulations of the texture itself. Instead of preserving its visual recognizability, cardboard in the hands of artists is often transformed into visual resemblances of other materials.