Remember Guy Laramée, the French artist who sculpts shockingly realistic landscapes out of old books? Well, he’s still at it — and his latest is an ode to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the publishers of which announced last year that they would stop printing the 245-year-old volumes.
The new piece is titled, appropriately, Adieu, was carved by hand and coloured with pigments to give the paper edges the glow of moss and red rock — according to the artist, inspired by landscapes in Ecuador and Brazil.
It’s just one piece of a new series, including Geographie Universelle:
The new pieces are all on the website of Tribeca gallery Jayne H. Baum, or you can check them out on Laramée’s website. [This Is Colossal; Jayne H. Baum]