Opening Tonight At BozarShop: The Word Viewed by Christopher Coppers

Christopher Coppers has worked with many magazines, including our BEople (pictured above)

The Word, a magazine about “neighbourhood living and global style,” has commissioned paper sculptor Christopher Coppers to create a work using some of its old issues. The piece will be featured in a three-work Coppers exhibition at BozarShop in Brussels that will kick off with an opening reception this evening, November 7.

The project coincides with The Word’s Essential Luxuries issue. As Editor in Chief Nicholas Lewis explains, “We thought that the essential luxury was to have an artist create a work of art for us. The idea of working with an artist whose work we love was appealing, and the fact that Christopher works with magazines made it even more appropriate.”

Coppers in the past has used as a medium many different magazines, including Playboy, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and our now-dormant BEople magazine (pictured here). While Coppers has frequently made his art with a single magazine issue, his work has included large-scale paper pieces that he shapes with a chainsaw.

Coppers says of the exhibition at BozarShop: “I wanted to portray very different ways of representing the same object. The first piece is called ‘construction’, a three meter-high spiral of magazines which, from its well defined structure and perfect symmetry, represents a vision of limited grandeur. The second piece is called ‘(de)construction’, portraying the absolute opposite of the first piece. It is a huge mountain of waste, which represents decadence, perfection, and excess but which can continue to feed itself indefinitely. The third and final piece is the work commissioned by The Word, which I am very proud of.”

Coppers’ work will remain on display at BozarShop until November 30. Stay tuned for photos of the exhibition.

Several issues of our BEople magazine have been given the Coppers treatment