Daniele papuli biography books

          From heavy, compacted volumes or floating ribbons, Papuli creates amazing landscapes and textures out of paper you wouldn't believe possible..

          Maglie (LE), 1971
          “Nomen Omen”, the Latins used to say: in the name of a person is enclosed their destiny.

          This is the case of the Salento artist Daniele Papuli because of the singular assonance of his name with the Spanish ”papel” which means “paper” and with the French “papier”.

          Biography.

        1. This publication sets the bar for facsimile publishing!
        2. From heavy, compacted volumes or floating ribbons, Papuli creates amazing landscapes and textures out of paper you wouldn't believe possible.
        3. Italy-based artist Daniele Papuli creates site-specific installations made of paper.
        4. Daniele Papuli started working with paper by chance, after taking a workshop in Berlin while studying at the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera.

          5. The artist comes to the manipulation of paper making it the fulcrum and the means of his expressive language after an approach to sculpture with a series of early artifacts in stone, wood, plaster.
          A research path marked by the continue evolution from gravity to the lightness of form, from the solidity of the classical materials of sculpture to others of greater ductility and lightness.

          In 1993 in Berlin, during an international workshop, he learns the methods of making paper sheets. Since 1995 Papuli has picked paper as his material of choice: from blank sheets to printed pages of old books, telephone directories, typographical waste, scraps, cuttings, sh