THE ENCHANTED WOODS
French artist Eva Jospin brings Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE on a journey inside her cardboard creations – refined, enigmatic and sensitive – that carry viewers away into a strange and magical universe, as if they have wandered inside a fairy tale.
Eva Jospin crafts hauntingly beautiful forests, rocks, grottoes, nymphaeums, cenotaphs, temples and entire universes out of cardboard, a cheap, everyday material that she sublimates through the ambition of the form and the complexity of the ornamentation. Going from the minute to the monumental, the painstaking, delicate details of her sculptures, usually found in drawing or lacemaking, contrast with their oversized dimensions. Having studied mannerist Renaissance gardens and landscape paintings and deeply influenced by the art of the Antiquity, the Baroque era, the Rococo spirit or the 19th century and its panoramas, the Paris-born artist’s fantastical
