Once considered a sacred material, paper is now one of the most widely used and carelessly consumed media. For more than 2,000 years, it has served humanity as a means of communication and a basis for intellectual and creative exchange, among other things. The need to express oneself artistically has given rise to a wide variety of design possibilities and techniques.
Artists express themselves on paper, record their thoughts, experiment, take notes, and study. This does not always result in an independent work of art. Paper is flat, flexible, light, and easy to work with. It has long since evolved from a mere medium for painting and drawing into a versatile material in its own right, used for study sheets and sketches as well as for detailed pencil drawings, watercolors, gouaches, collages, photographic works, and artist’s books.
The exhibition presents a wealth of works on paper that reveal artistic intentions, craftsmanship, and sensitivity in equal measure. By focusing on the various techniques, it relates artists of classical modernism such as André Masson, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Miró, artists of the CoBrA group, and contemporary positions such as Johannes Heisig, Volker Stelzmann, and Klaus Zylla to one another and finds new, sometimes unexpected connections.
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