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== Carriera ==
[[File:Joisel First Dwarf.jpg|right|thumb|300x300px|Il "nano" di Joisel]]HeJoisel firstscopre discoveredper inla theprima 1980svolta thenegli uniqueanni forms'80 createdle withforme papercreate bycon la carta dal grande maestro giapponese dell'origami [[Akira Yoshizawa]], theche Japaneseaveva grandmastersviluppato ofil origamimetodo whodi had''piegatura createda more than 50,000 models, developing theumido'' ([[wet-folding]]) methodche thatha allowedpermesso forla thecreazione creationdi ofsculture three-dimensionaldi roundedcarta sculpturestridimensionali. Joisel wasè takenstato bycolpito thedal waymodo thein Yoshizawa'scui worksle blendedopere classicaldi origamiYoshizawa methodsmescolavano andi standardmetodi formsdi ofpiegatura sculpturedegli inorigami orderclassici tocon makele expressiveforme figuresstandard outdella ofscultura wetper paper,creare withoutcon makingcarta anybagnata cutsfigure orespressive, usingsenza anyl'uso gluedi tagli o colla. <ref name=NYTObit>Fox, Margalit. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/design/20joisel.html "Eric Joisel, French Sculptor of Origami, Dies at 53"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 20, 2010. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref>
Negli anni '90 Joisel inizia ad utilizzare esclusivamente la carta, dedicando il resto della sua carriera alla creazione di arte origami applicando le sue variazioni da autodidatta alle tecniche di Yoshizawa. <ref name=NYTObit/> Ha dedicato la sua vita all'origami dopo aver perso il lavoro come manager di una tipografia. <ref>Staff. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6936969.ece "Eric Joisel's origami sculptures are attracting thousands of euros"], ''[[The Times]]'', November 30, 2009. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref>
Joisel shifted to working with paper in the 1990s, devoting the remainder of his career to creating origami art using his own self-taught variation of the wet-folding techniques that Yoshizawa had developed and refined.<ref name=NYTObit/> He devoted his life to origami after losing his job as the manager of a printing company.<ref>Staff. [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6936969.ece "Eric Joisel's origami sculptures are attracting thousands of euros"], ''[[The Times]]'', November 30, 2009. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref> Living in a small home, he devoted hours focusing on the meticulous design and detail of each piece of origami. He could spend as much as years working out the plans for one of his original origami pieces, with a single piece created over a period of days or weeks, involving hundreds of precisely planned and executed folds to sheets of paper that could measure to as much as {{convert|15|ft}} by {{convert|25|ft}} to create figures that ranged from the size of one's hand to life size, while many were no more than {{convert|12|in|cm}} high. Though his work was displayed at the [[Musée du Louvre]] and collectors from around the world paid as much as thousands of dollars for some of his origami sculptures, the tremendous amount of time that he devoted to each work meant that he didn't earn much income. Themed pieces that he handcrafted included figures from [[commedia dell'arte]] and foot-high sculptures of musicians each holding a finely detailed musical instrument.<ref name=NYTObit/><ref>[http://www.ericjoisel.com/commedia.html Eric Joisel: Commedia dell'Arte], EricJoisel.com. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ericjoisel.com/musicians.html Eric Joisel: Musicians], EricJoisel.com. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref>
Ha impiegato anni per elaborare e mettere a punto alcuni dei suoi modelli più famosi creati da un singolo foglio e con giorni o settimane di piegatura. Ha creato modelli partendo da fogli di carta di grandi dimensioni, sino a 5x7m, per creare figure dai 30 cm sino alle dimensioni reali.
I suoi lavori sono stati esposti anche al [[Museo del Louvre]] e acquistati da collezionisti di tutto il mondo.
I pezzi a tema che ha realizzato includevano figure della [[commedia dell'arte]] e sculture di musicisti, ciascuna con in mano uno strumento musicale finemente dettagliato. <ref name=NYTObit/><ref>[http://www.ericjoisel.com/commedia.html Eric Joisel: Commedia dell'Arte], EricJoisel.com. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.ericjoisel.com/musicians.html Eric Joisel: Musicians], EricJoisel.com. Accessed October 20, 2010.</ref>
Joisel ha pubblicato molti dei diagrammi per la riproduzione dei suoi modelli, consentendo di apprezzare lo straordinario livello di dettaglio e precisione che "rende la sua arte contemporaneamente accessibile e irraggiungibile". Nel suo necrologio, il New York Times ha riportato le istruzioni per la piegatura del Ratto di Joisel. <ref name=NYTObit/>
Joisel published many of the design plans for his figures, providing a look into the extraordinary level of detail and precision that "renders his art simultaneously approachable and unattainable". In his obituary, ''[[The New York Times]]'' included instructions on how to duplicate one of Joisel's figures of a rat, though it noted that "no lay person should even contemplate the hedgehog".<ref name=NYTObit/>
Joisel wasè featuredapparso innel thedocumentario documentarysull'origami ''[[Between the Folds]]'', aun film del 2009 film bydi [[Vanessa Gould]] aboutsul themondo modernmoderno worlddegli ofartisti dell'origami artists.
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