It was such a pleasure to place collectively this Artist Highlight publish. From the place? As a result of miniature clippings KK BicalhoA phenomenal artist and artwork educator in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, creates simply that… joyful stuff. He does not must look past the small print of on a regular basis life for inspiration.

As KK mentioned, “There’s a lot hidden magnificence right here and there. It is at all times essential to see what’s on the market otherwise. Neglect for some time that adults have a look at every thing and keep in mind what our childhood eyes had been. It used to do.”

jKK’s oie de vivre, typically in weird Minuances (i.e. mini nuances), stems from his skill to seize these little moments that we’d in any other case take without any consideration.

“By recording the conditions round us on paper silhouettes, I reveal a brand new approach to admire life with lightness and ease.”

“I like miniatures! However my artwork goes past the paper I minimize. I have interaction in dialogue with the house across the paper minimize determine and generally I take advantage of the partitions as properly.”

“Beginning small and infrequently rising. I dream of constructing them larger! (Not the cuts, however the entire enterprise.)”

Together with his spouse and mom of two younger kids, KK works in his house studio. The clippings have been exhibited in Brazil, bought in galleries and on-line, and are within the assortment of the Rio de Janiero Museum of Fashionable Artwork.

KK specialised in metallic printing and drawing whereas incomes a Fantastic Arts diploma on the Guignard Faculty in Belo Horizonte.

He created many items utilizing silhouettes on each topics, however was compelled to strive paper chopping for the primary time in childhood or adolescence.

“If I am not mistaken, one in every of my first cuts was a ballerina or a fairy. I keep in mind beginning the cuts from the underside (ft), nonetheless the identical approach.”

I am unable to wait to see KK’s latest work by him. Web site And on Instagram the place the chopping course of shares its reels. (I used to be stunned on the dimension of the scissors KK used – I assumed they might be a lot smaller to get such advantageous particulars.)

Keep tuned for details about her first worldwide exhibition, which can be her solo present in America in Could. I hope it is near the place I dwell!

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