Daniel Alcalá

I first discovered the work of Mexican artist Daniel Alcalá last year, at the Slash: Paper Under The Knife exhibition in New York (currently still showing at the Museum of Arts and Design).

Alcalá creates these striking silhouettes, which at distance look like photographs; however, on closer inspection they are painstakingly constructed from precisely cut paper, with subtly different tones created by the different layers. The way the work is made reflects the subject matter, which is centred on strongly graphic architectural and structural elements.