Editing Scale model (section)

=== Miniatures in contemporary art ===
[[Image:asylum 2005.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Daniel Dorall]], ''Asylum'', 2005, cardboard, sand, hydrocryl, plastic, 20 × 10 × 4 cm]]
[[Miniature model (gaming)|Miniatures]] and model kits are used in contemporary art whereby artists use both scratch built miniaturizations or commercially manufactured model kits to construct a dialogue between object and viewer. The role of the artist in this type of miniature is not necessarily to re-create an historical event or achieve naturalist realism, but rather to use scale as a mode of articulation in generating conceptual or theoretical exploration. Political, conceptual, and architectural examples are provided by noted artists such as [[Bodys Isek Kingelez]], [[Jake and Dinos Chapman]] (otherwise known as the Chapman Brothers), [[Ricky Swallow]], [[Shaun Wilson]], Sven Christoffersen, or the [[Psikhelekedana]] artists from [[Mozambique]], [[James Casebere]], [[Oliver Boberg]], and [[Daniel Dorall]].