On Paper 2010

27.03.2010 - 06.05.2010


Press release and Invitation

Stalke Galleri invites you to the exhibition

ON PAPER
2010

Opening Saturday March 27th from 1 to 5 PM


It is with great pleasure that Stalke Gallery in Denmark opens the  grand exhibition On Paper with participation of 55 artist from around the world.

Spirit on paper
There is something innocent and light in the image of a paper fly like on this invitation .
Just think about a kid playing with it. – What is more suitable for a playful exhibition with artworks, which are making use of this media in all kind of way? Isn’t paper the basic medium of making art? There are surely very few artists who never used it in their creative process at a certain point.
But nevertheless – paper as a medium is not as easy as it seems: Its maybe 2200 year old history might about to be over. It is definitely in its last chapter. In the old China paper was something holy and the making of it a carefully protected secret. The Arabs brought it to the west and with Gutenberg’s letter press machine it got its breakthrough: money, books, documents, pamphlets, pictures, photos, photocopies. It became the communication media from the highest to the lowest culture the next 500 years.
Now we are in the middle of a new revolution of communication: More and more information in our culture becomes digital. The computer displaces paper, which means that a material information carrier is displaced by a virtual one. We can only guess where it leads. Fact is: credit cards displace money, kids are using their notebooks instead of exercise books and David Hockney just demonstrated how great it is to make drawings on his iphone.
So what does paper mean for artists today? There is surely not one answer. But there are plenty to find in the show at  55 artists  from 13 nations with 4 to 12  works each will show how lively this media still is and not leave much free space on the wall.


The following artists participate:
Lawrence Anastasi, William Anastasi, Bella Angora, William Anthony, Thomas Bang, Thorbjørn Bechmann, Anne Bennike, Alexandra Berlinger, Kristleifur Björnsson, Ditte Bolt, Niels Bonde, Dove Bradshaw, Jes Brinch, Flemming Brusgaard, Søren Dahlgaard, Jeanette Ehlers, Susanne Eybl, Jesper Fabricius, Christian Falsnaes, Martin Fraenkel, Nils Erik Gjerdevik, Lars Grenaae, Nilbar Güres, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Berit Heggenhougen Jensen, Jochem Hendricks, Peter Holst Henckel, Kristian Hornsleth, Barbara Husar,
Marie Irmgard, Lidy Jacobs, John Krogh, Thorbjørn Lausten, Katrin von Maltzahn, Tati Meir, Lone Mertz, Albert Mertz, Ultra Grøn (Morten Leck Plesner and Christian E. Dinesen), Tiina Elina Nurminen, Kaj Nyborg, Janet Passehl, Hans Peterson, Sebastian Quedenbaum, Nikolaj Recke, Finn Reinbothe, Stefan Saffer, Steinunn Helga Siguròardóttir, Morten Tillitz, Iv Toshain, Vu Thi Trang, Anu Tuominen, Hulda Vilhjámsdóttier, Ulrick Weck, Fabian Weinecke, Gunnar Örn


Curator: Sam Jedig
Catalogue text: Tine Bundgaard Quedenbaum


Last exhibition day is May 6th 2010

Throughout the exhibition period, the show will be open by appointment. 
please call +45 2926 7433  or +45 4649 2670
(Close from 31.3 to 4.4. 2010)                                                                               
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