Surreal wooden sculptures by Paul Kaptein

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Paul Kaptein creates amazing sculptures in wood, exploring the notion of the now as a blend of future and past potentialities. Sampling various temporal and cultural possibilities, his work is an expression of things not quite fiction, not quite truth. This results in intriguing sculptures that are both surreal yet realistic, rooted in fantasy and real life simultaneously. The Australian based artist uses laminated wood to create a dialogue between contraction and expansion and uses wood because it’s the perfect platform to explore these themes as wood suggests past, present and future. “The panels slip and slide, creating their own holes which exasperate the gaps in the fabric of the universe,” argues Kaptein.

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