Project #7 Tony Vivaci Woven Paintings

 

These woven paintings made of cardboard by Tony Vivaci from Milan, Italy.  Vivaci works with acrylic and cardboard, creating different textural wall pieces.  Some pieces are reminiscent of fabric and other of metal. The colors are very saturated and some have an ombre effect.

It is not easy to weave a thick stiff material like cardboard.  I suggest trying different materials, working small at first and then try to make a large cardboard piece.  

This is one that I made with repurposed folder paper.  I made my vertical and horizontal cuts the same width.  I used the shorter pieces to weave into the longer pieces.  

Start your project by painting paper or cardboard with a water based paint then cut one piece of paper into strips and make cuts in the other paper but do not cut all the way to the edge.  Weave the second set of strips over and under, alternating each row.  For example if row #1 is started under then all odd rows will start under and even rows will start over. 

Try different repurposed materials from packing materials to cereal boxes.  You can use heavy aluminum foil without painting it to get a very different look.  

Vocabulary:  ombre, saturated, weaving, repurposed, vertical, horizontal