ART AS A GAME

Planisfera is the name given to a tabletop toy designed by Margarita Paulos and published by the on-line gallery, Obra Sobre Papel (Work on Paper). In this object, two semi-circles presented perpendicularly and joined at their geometric centre suggest a virtual sphere. The parts are made in pinewood with applications in vinyl Planisfera manages to convey a playful, chromatic dynamism when set to spin. The graphic identity of this piece, which has been made with graphics inspired in Art Deco, collaborates in creating an illusion: the absent sphere. Paulos has developed this project with a personal methodology, an object with an iconic presence. As in the case of the Oddvar Red&Blue, a chromatic intervention on an IKEA stool, the designer proposes a complicity between this new work and the theoretical and aesthetic tradition of abstract art of the first half of the 20th century.

Margarita Paulos

Communicating objects

The designer, Margarita Paulos, is a biologist, art collector and amateur nature watcher. She works in graphic communication and online for the publishing industry, institutions, artists, scientists and software developers. She is also an artistic director and publishing direction at Work on Paper.

The Planisfera toy is her second contribution to the gallery archives, following on from that of Oddvar Red&Blue, a playful, chromatic intervention on an Ikea stool.

In both objects, Paulos is intended to generate a certain complicity with particular artistic aesthetic of the twentieth century.