Sunday, 30th August 2020, 11.30 a.m.
Exhibition duration: until Sunday, 4th October 2020
Hall of the VfaKR e.V. in the Altenberg Center directly at the main station Oberhausen

Colin Ardley | Gabriele Basch | Tashi Brauen | Greig Burgoyne | Emil Cimiotti | Goekhan Erdogan | Tom Früchtl | Dorthe Goeden | Monika Grzymala | Eri Kato | Phillip Langer | Ulrike Mohr | Ivo Ringe | Sophia Schama | Fiene Scharp | Martin Bruno Schmid | Carsten Sievers | Elisabeth Sonneck | Magnus von Stetten | Jutta Steudle | Esther Stocker | Ignacio Uriarte

Paper frequently serves as a material support for drawing and painting. However, in this exhibition it is presented, above all, in its diverse range of material properties and possibilities of physical transformation. With the use of DIN format print papers, large sheets of paper, rolls of paper, transparent paper, everyday scraps of paper, handmade papers, robust cardboard packing, corrugated and other paper boards, this familiar material exists already in extreme variety. All the more varied are the related actions which transform the conventional flatness of paper into physical presences. This can extend from cautious contact, through to the damaging and destruction of paper, from apparently incidental spontaneous interventions, to repetitive acts. Some in turn follow a spatially related concept or alter the given material in its chemical constituents. By meanings of drawing, printing or painting on the surfaces contradictory trails can be laid down which provoke perceptual irritation. In so much as the use of paper is anchored in all areas of culture, from industrial to everyday use, the artists approach to paper infiltrates and subverts habits of seeing and thinking - in works which are bound by the constant fragility of the material and through complex simplicity of treatment.

Some of the artists and Dr. Petra Oelschlägel, director of the Art Museum Villa Zanders, are present on the opening day.

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