Rachel Adams
Aglae' Bassens
Matthew Brannon
Jason Brinkerhoff
Jodie Carey
Ana Cvorovic
Dawn Clements
Sean Dack
Gerald Davis
Freya Douglas-Morris
Peles Empire
Han Feng
Nicola Frimpong
Ry Fyan
Hilary Harnischfeger
Karen Heagle
Christian Holstad
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Marcelo Jacome
Nina Katchadourian
Annie Kevans
John Kleckner
Douglas Kolk
Miler Lagos
Jose' Lerma & Hector Madera
Steven Lowery
Eric Manigaud
Dominic McGill
Odires Mlászho
Klaus Mosettig
Tal R
Margot Sanders
Aurel Schmidt
Kura Shomali
Jamie Shovlin
Zak Smith
Yuken Teruya
Storm Tharp
Tom Thayer
Ann Toebbe
Rebecca Turner
Jannis Varelas
Ben Washington
Paul Westcombe
Aaron Wexler
Lisa Wilkens
Silke Schatz
The 44 international artists in this exhibition challenge our received ideas and expectations about paper as a material and, across a range of media (drawing, collage, sculpture, painting and installation), demonstrate its richness and versatility.
Artists in PAPER
Rachel Adams, Aglaé Bassens, Matthew Brannon, Jason Brinkerhoff, Jodie Carey, Ana
Cvorovic, Dawn Clements, Sean Dack, Gerald Davis, Freya Douglas-Morris, Peles
Empire, Han Feng, Nicola Frimpong, Ry Fyan, Hilary Harnischfeger, Karen Heagle,
Christian Holstad, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Marcelo Jácome, Nina Katchadourian,
Annie Kevans, John Kleckner, Douglas Kolk, Miler Lagos, José Lerma & Héctor Madera,
Steven Lowery, Eric Manigaud, Dominic McGill, Odires Mlászho, Klaus Mosettig, Tal R,
Margot Sanders, Aurel Schmidt, Kura Shomali, Jamie Shovlin, Zak Smith, Yuken Teruya,
Storm Tharp, Tom Thayer, Ann Toebbe, Rebecca Turner, Jannis Varelas, Ben Washington,
Paul Westcombe, Aaron Wexler, Lisa Wilkens, Silke Schatz
London UK – The Saatchi Gallery’s new exhibition PAPER comes at a time when we are
living in an increasingly ‘paperless’ society. We encourage paperless offices,
printed newspapers are in decline, communications until very recently documented on
paper are now sent by email, and even paper money is steadily diminishing. The
temporality of the material has never been more evident.
The 44 international artists in this exhibition challenge our received ideas and
expectations about paper as a material and, across a range of media (drawing,
collage, sculpture, painting and installation), demonstrate its richness and
versatility.
Rachel Adams (UK) drapes remnants of furniture in crinkled, delicate paper to create
large sculptural forms reminiscent of the human form when reclining or seated; Nina
Katchadourian (US) takes self-portraits in aeroplane toilets in a 15th-century
Flemish style, protective paper seats standing in for items of clothing; Rebecca
Turner (UK) plays with our ideas of paper as a near-weightless medium with her huge
gravity-defying ball of pulp suspended from a wall.
Kura Shomali (Democratic Republic of the Congo) collages snippets of images by
celebrated African photographers such as Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé to evoke the
chaos of Kinshasa where he lives. Annie Kevans (UK) uses paper in a more traditional
way, as the surface for her astonishing paintings of dictators that appear to depict
an ideal of innocence.
Éric Manginaud (France) makes life-size drawings of archival photographs taken from
the State Care and Medical Facility in Weilmünster, in which Jewish patients were
sterilised or starved under the Nazis. Paul Westcombe (UK) creates detailed drawings
on paper coffee cups, a surface he began using while working as a car park
attendant.
The medium of paper has opened up a vast array of artistic routes for the artists in
this exhibition. Its throwaway status allows for powerful and witty inversions of
high and low culture and charged references to newspapers, archives and protest
posters. Gone may be the days of extensive filing but in the hands of these artists
paper, the simplest and most ancient of materials, is vividly alive and physically
present.
In Partnership with:
Gallery Patrons
BNP Paribas
CHANEL
Prudential
Standard Chartered
Education Patrons
Deutsche Bank
Google
Hermès
Lille 3000
Magic of Persia
Winsor & Newton
Media Partner: The Sunday Times
Special Projects Partner
HUGO BOSS
Founding Patron
DinesenCorporate Patrons
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
ARUP
Asahi
ClearChannel
ECNLive
ERCO
Goedhuis & Co
Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill
Martinspeed
Parallel Contemporary Art
Pernod Ricard U
Pommery
Xirrus
Corporate Members
Crane TV
Doublet
Dovetail
Hallett Independent
Pemberton Greenish
Robert Walters
Benefactors
Gillian & Stuart Corbyn
Patricia & Jon Moynihan
Tsukanov Family Foundation
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