Born as an almost automatic response to an urge to draw, to keep his artistic flow going even while at work, the Papercuts series became a carefully calibrated exploration of optical aesthetics and the first official steps Mattia Cuttini made towards his career in crypto art. Yet, as its title suggests, this seminal series has its roots in its physical, paper-made version, so let’s deep dive into the Papercuts’ genesis.
It was back in 2016 when Cuttini started taking the first notes around the concept at the basis of the Papercuts. Squared notebooks were his inseparable companions while he was working as a graphic designer. The squared pages provided him with a constructive grid, a fixed reference within which he could jot down visual clues and reflections or actual drawings. At the time, while attending a course on how to create a font, he got closer to the optical aesthetic often admired as a boy in the works of Gruppo T and others. Cubes, prisms, black and white mazes, and trac
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