Since the 1960s, artists have been rediscovering paper, a material that has received little attention in everyday life since industrialization. Paper is formed, scooped, embossed, folded, cut, torn and even destroyed. Some examples of this rediscovery of the material can be found in the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the Landesmuseum Mainz. The cabinet exhibition invites visitors to explore the fragility and malleability of the material, as well as the question of the relationship between two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional space, which is raised by the processing and the resulting tears, creases, folds and indentations in the paper surface.
Works by Gustl Stark, Lore Bert, Günther Uecker, Aen Sauerborn, Erwin Wortelkamp, Knopp Ferro and Eduardo Chillida, among others, will be on display. As a special highlight, a new acquisition by the Mainz-born and internationally acclaimed artist Angela Glajcar will be presented to the public for the first time.
The works of art made of paper will be complemented by sculptures from the Landesmuseum Mainz.
Works by Gustl Stark, Lore Bert, Günther Uecker, Aen Sauerborn, Erwin Wortelkamp, Knopp Ferro and Eduardo Chillida, among others, will be on display. As a special highlight, a new acquisition by the Mainz-born and internationally acclaimed artist Angela Glajcar will be presented to the public for the first time.
The works of art made of paper will be complemented by sculptures from the Landesmuseum Mainz.
