PAPIER-MÂCHÉ WALL SCULPTURE BY ADRIANA RIZKALLAH (2007)

Unique papier-mâché wall sculpture by Brazilian artist ADRIANA RIZKALLAH (b. 1962): enormous concave disk—just under three feet in diameter—striped horizontally with a “tribal” graphic in high relief. Mounted to a black wooden box frame. Rizkallah has prioritized sustainability for over 30 years, perfecting an exclusively recycled papier-mâché compound, using natural pigments and resins, and employing techniques she learned from Indigenous Brazilians. Inherently eco-friendly, her work’s objective is to make evident—and to play with—all of the potentialities of surface art.

ADRIANA RIZKALLAH (b. 1962) was born in São Paulo in 1962. She studied at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), an important cultural center in that city and one of Brazil’s most prestigious universities, graduating in 1984 with a degree in the Fine Arts. She began her career with painting and subsequently taught briefly at St. Paul’s British International School. Since the 1990s, Rizkallah has been working almost exclusively in papier-mâché, producing experimental forms and large-scale installations comprising textured interior spaces. Her interest has always focused on the ambiguity between the lightness and delicacy of paper and its possibilities as raw material for sculpture. Currently, she has been incorporating copper into her work. Rizkallah owns an eponymous gallery in São Paulo.

Paper is possibility. – ADRIANA RIZALLAH

DETAILS

Artist – ADRIANA RIZALLAH

Period/Year – 2007

Origin – BRAZIL

Styles/Movements – MODERNIST

Media – PAPIER-MÂCHÉ

Support – BOX MOUNT

Colors – ALMOND, TAUPE

Condition – Excellent vintage condition. May show minor signs of previous ownership and use.

Dimensions – 46 ¼" H × 46 ¼" W × 7" D