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Magnificent collaged 3D landscapes made out of old postcards

Italian artist Caterina Rossato creates unique 3D collages out of old postcards, where she layers together cut-out images and applies them to wood to form sculptures of beautiful landscapes from across the world.

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Three-dimensional collage of layered postcard landscapes featuring mountains, castles and valleys arranged in an undulating composition on a white base with black support brackets

Speaking of the project, Rossato said: "I create landscapes made through a collage of other landscapes, combining images in which the sense of recognition of reality slips from one level to another and it is never clearly identified."

A graduate in Fine Arts from Italy's Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo, she also holds a Masters in Design and Production of Visual Arts at IUAV in Venice, where she has also just obtained a Masters in Interactive Arts. During her career she has worked as assistant for renowned artists such as Pascale Marthine Tayou and Nan Goldin, and since 2011 she's been the assistant of Alberto Garutti for the Laboratory of Visual Arts at IUAV in Venice.

Her work has been exhibited across Europe and she is currently resident artist at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. Discover more via www.caterinarossato.com.

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Caterina Rossato's 3D collage of a mountainous cityscape made from layered postcard cut-outs mounted on wood with binder clips
Layered collage of a hillside village held by two black binder clips, showing cut-out postcard images forming a 3D landscape sculpture
Layered collage of cut-out mountain landscape images from old postcards assembled on wood and held upright with black binder clips
Caterina Rossato's collaged 3D landscape sculptures made from layered cut-out postcards of mountains, forests and castles mounted on white card with binder clips
Layered postcard collage depicting Neuschwanstein Castle nestled in Alpine mountains with undulating blue and white peaks in the foreground
Caterina Rossato's layered postcard collage depicting a mountainous landscape with snow-capped peaks, a dramatic dark mountain, and an ornate city nestled among green trees below
Caterina Rossato's layered 3D collage depicting a classical temple surrounded by cypress trees and cypress-topped mountains in an Italian landscape composition
Layered postcard collage depicting an Alpine town nestled between towering mountain peaks, with ornate buildings and a church spire emerging from stacked landscape imagery
Layered paper cut-out collage of alpine mountains, valleys and a traditional building creating a three-dimensional landscape sculpture by Caterina Rossato
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