Paper Cuts
Keteleer Gallery is very pleased to present Paper Cuts, a group exhibition focusing on works on paper by 11 artists. To emphasize both the fascinating potentials of working on paper and the different ways artists use this medium to express their themes, Paper Cuts presents works by artist from the gallery: Leo Copers, Enrique Marty, Bjarne Melgaard, Benjamin Moravec and Koen Theys and invited artists: Keren Cytter, Femmy Otten, Clara Spilliaert, Elly Strik, Joris Van de Moortel and Shafei Xia.
With Paper Cuts, Keteleer Gallery endorses the prominent place works on paper have recently acquired in the art world. Today, compared to how works on paper were considered inferior to painting, sculpture or installation in the past, the medium is being recognized more and more as being valuable and worthy in itself. The diversity of techniques, styles and approaches that can be used on paper is limitless and offers artists the opportunity to express their artistic process in a myriad of ways.
A distinctive aspect of working on paper is the directness and intimacy it can offer. Drawings and watercolours, for instance, are often regarded as a reflection of the artist鈥檚 inner landscape in which emotions and ideas are expressed in an immediate and unfiltered way. The paper sometimes even captures traces of the creative process: scratches, tears and stains that give each work a unique character. These qualities make it possible for works on paper to touch viewers in a way that no other medium can.
Another advantage to working on paper is the freedom it offers. Since working on paper is relatively cheap, it is by nature lively and experimental. Paper offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of materials and techniques, enabling artists to express their ideas in a spontaneous and uncompromising way.
Paper Cuts refers to the technique of cutting paper to create shapes, but even more so to the inherent duality of the medium and its potentially transformative power. The Paper Cuts exhibition chooses specific works of which the pictorial solutions are most convincing in terms of ambiguity, destruction and subversiveness. The exhibited works, with references to themes like desire, alienation, physicality and sexuality, are often simultaneously powerful and soft, nonchalant and obsessive. Just like a barely visible paper cut can be very painful, the exhibited works on paper can appear subtle while cutting very deep by having a substantial visual and emotional impact.
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Keteleer Gallery is very pleased to present Paper Cuts, a group exhibition focusing on works on paper by 11 artists. To emphasize both the fascinating potentials of working on paper and the different ways artists use this medium to express their themes, Paper Cuts presents works by artist from the gallery: Leo Copers, Enrique Marty, Bjarne Melgaard, Benjamin Moravec and Koen Theys and invited artists: Keren Cytter, Femmy Otten, Clara Spilliaert, Elly Strik, Joris Van de Moortel and Shafei Xia.
With Paper Cuts, Keteleer Gallery endorses the prominent place works on paper have recently acquired in the art world. Today, compared to how works on paper were considered inferior to painting, sculpture or installation in the past, the medium is being recognized more and more as being valuable and worthy in itself. The diversity of techniques, styles and approaches that can be used on paper is limitless and offers artists the opportunity to express their artistic process in a myriad of ways.
A distinctive aspect of working on paper is the directness and intimacy it can offer. Drawings and watercolours, for instance, are often regarded as a reflection of the artist鈥檚 inner landscape in which emotions and ideas are expressed in an immediate and unfiltered way. The paper sometimes even captures traces of the creative process: scratches, tears and stains that give each work a unique character. These qualities make it possible for works on paper to touch viewers in a way that no other medium can.
Another advantage to working on paper is the freedom it offers. Since working on paper is relatively cheap, it is by nature lively and experimental. Paper offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of materials and techniques, enabling artists to express their ideas in a spontaneous and uncompromising way.
Paper Cuts refers to the technique of cutting paper to create shapes, but even more so to the inherent duality of the medium and its potentially transformative power. The Paper Cuts exhibition chooses specific works of which the pictorial solutions are most convincing in terms of ambiguity, destruction and subversiveness. The exhibited works, with references to themes like desire, alienation, physicality and sexuality, are often simultaneously powerful and soft, nonchalant and obsessive. Just like a barely visible paper cut can be very painful, the exhibited works on paper can appear subtle while cutting very deep by having a substantial visual and emotional impact.
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