Golden Cardboard
The project
Clutter, declutter, distil.
At a time when our living spaces in cities are shrinking, we’ve never accumulated so many objects in our daily lives. People are moving more frequently, packing away years of their lives.
These boxes illuminate what we have forgotten, what we no longer see, and what we wish to remember by removing and clearing out. These boxes, like a treasure chest of stranded memories with their inscriptions serving as instantaneous reminders, preserve what we could not throw away and protect our stories just as a work of art does.
Inspired by this reflection, Lord Anthony Cahn creates sculptures from these boxes, giving them the appearance of sacred relics through the use of various materials, from resin to bronze to gold leaf.
The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa, a monument of pictorial art, is reinterpreted in an entirely new way by Lord Anthony Cahn through his unusual work with golden cardboard. He raises the value of a material that symbolizes the humble arts while accentuating the august character of the engraved subject. As the viewer approaches the work, the anachronism reveals itself, offering a new reading of this emblem of the Renaissance.
