This catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Paper" running in the Saatchi Gallery from June 2013.
Paperback
220 pages
29.6 cm x 21 cm
Illustrated thoughout
Published by Saatchi Gallery
The catalogue showcase the work of 44 artists in collage, drawing, sculpture, painting and installation.
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.
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.
