Holland Paper Biennial 2006
10 June - 10 September 2006
Museum Rijswijk and the Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA)
The Holland Paper Biennial 2006 is an exhibition presenting the work of 28 international paper artists at two locations in the Netherlands. Museum Rijswijk will be showing a wide selection of work by 22 of the artists distributed throughout the museum, while the CODA Museum will be exhibiting the more large-scale work, installations and artists’ books of 20 of the artists.
The exhibition
The artists selected for this Holland Paper Biennial all work closely with the material paper. For some the starting point is pure fibre or making pulp from it, while others use handmade or industrially produced paper. They all then work and manipulate the paper by means of compression, perforations, folding or cutting.
An artist who employs the last technique is Ayuk Kuperus. Movement and the play of light and shadow are essential elements in her work, which she achieves by cutting the paper freehand with a sharp Stanley knife. In contrast, designer of paper architecture Ingrid Siliakus creates in a minutely planned way complicated constructions by means of folds and cuts in one sheet of paper. Margit Rijnaard too uses a knife with which she cuts grids in the pages of a Bos Atlas. By turning the pages of her artist’s book unexpected views of continents with different colour combinations and patterns are revealed. Lucille Moroni from France does not use a knife but makes her geometric objects solely by folding the pages of antique church missals with which she prefers to work. Her compatriot Jean-Claude Correia also uses the folding technique but employs just one sheet of paper. His folded creations appear to have grown organically and conjure up associations with rugged landscapes or the scaly hides of reptiles.
The Japanese artist Naoko Serino makes use of natural fibre, in this case combed jute, to make delicate objects that look as if they have blown or floated in on the wind or tide. Her compatriot Manabu Hangai uses paper made from marine algae for her colourful and fairy-tale like installations and objects. Miriam Londoño, Columbian by origin, makes pulp from cotton fibres. By squeezing the pulp from plastic bottles she writes ‘letters’ to distant friends and family. Once dry, they become fine filigree works revealing here and there words that are barely legible.
Rolf A. Kluenter learned to make paper in Nepal. He works with lokta – paper made from the fibres of the Daphne shrub –blackened by mixing carbon into the paper pulp. Kluenter creates labyrinthine works inspired by Shanghai, where he now lives.
A number of artists taking part in this Biennial gather the paper for their artworks from books, magazines and newspapers. Karel Martens, particularly well known for his graphic design work, recycles newspapers and magazines, gluing them into reliefs. Subtle changes in colour occur as the viewer passes by. The South Korean artist Kwang-young Chun makes painterly reliefs by wrapping hundreds of styrofoam shapes in hanji – Korean mulberry paper – from antique books. Discarded wrappers from offerings to Buddha are given a new twist to form the esoteric pieces by Tomoko Ishida from Japan. In contrast, the work of Hans Jürgen Simon, constructed from compressed and fanned newspapers, comes across as extremely solid. They are reminiscent of the folds in the Earth’s crust or the growth rings of trees.
Museum CODA will be giving extensive coverage to the work of Dionyssopaulos Pavlos. He has worked for more than 30 years folding and bending paper strips into, among other things, three-dimensional landscapes.
The 28 artists taking part in the 2006 Holland Paper Biennial are as follows:
Museum Rijswijk:
Lucia Barata (Italy/Brazil), Jean-Claude Correia (France), Sjef Henderickx (the Netherlands), Jae Ko (South Korea/U.S.), Lucille Moroni (France), Naoko Serino (Japan), Ingrid Siliakus (the Netherlands), Marjolein van der Stoep (the Netherlands).
Both museums:
Luis Acosta (the Netherlands/Argentina), Marjolijn van den Assem (the Netherlands),
Kwang-young Chun (South Korea), Dominique De Beir (France), Mels Dees (the Netherlands), Claude Frossard (Switzerland), Manabu Hangai (Japan), Eve Ingalls (United States), Tomoko Ishida (Japan), Rolf A. Kluenter (China/Germany), Ayuk Kuperus (the Netherlands), Miriam Londoño (the Netherlands/Colombia), Hans Jürgen Simon (Germany), Vroegop/Schoonveld (the Netherlands).
Museum of Apeldoorn (CODA):
Valerie Buess (Germany), Betty Friedman (United States), John Gerard (Germany/U.S.), Karel Martens (the Netherlands), Pavlos (Greece/France), Margit Rijnaard (the Netherlands).
The book: Paper takes flight
A special publication entitled Paper takes flight will accompany the sixth Holland Paper Biennial. The compiler of the book is again the well-known paper artist Peter Gentenaar.
The inspiration for the theme of the book is the article by the anthropologist and paper restoration specialist René Teijgeler, who remained in Iraq with the Netherlands Army in 2003/2004 to assist in ensuring that as much of the Iraqi cultural heritage as possible was preserved. Other articles about paper and adversity have been gathered together by the editorial team to complement Teijgeler’s story.
Henk Porck and Bihanne Wassink describe the experiments carried out by the National Library of the Netherlands and the Fire Service of The Hague, entailing burning books in order to obtain a better insight into how to deal with books suffering fire damage. Architect Taco van Iersel writes about the construction of houses made of cardboard which can be erected both quickly and cheaply after natural disasters. For the first time after more than 300 years, Roelof van Gelder opens letters written by Dutch seamen aboard ships captured by English privateers in the seventeenth century. Koos Havelaar talks about the more recent history of airmail and the different sorts of special papers used. The Iraqi poet Salah Hasan writes about his own flight without papers and finally Karel Schell gives an overview of the protection of security papers through the centuries.
The book also presents the artworks exhibited by the paper artists taking part in this Biennial, together with a number of samples of the paper they use for their work.
Paper takes flight (Ned/Eng): published by Uitgeverij Compres bv in Leiden and designed by Loes Schepens in The Hague.
ISBN-10 90-73803-07-1
ISBN-13 978-90-73803-07-7
Purchase price: € 59.95
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Museum shops
During the Holland Paper Biennial 2006 there will be a shop in Museum Rijswijk stocked with a wide selection of handmade papers from Southern and South-East Asia. In addition, there will be jewellery, small gifts and many books about making paper and paper art on sale.
In the CODA Museum shop paper artworks, jewellery, exclusive gifts and books will be on sale.
Activities
Grand paper fair in Rijswijk: To mark the conclusion of the 2006 Holland Paper Biennial, a grand paper fair will be held on Sunday 10 September from 13:00 until 17:00 on the premises and in the grounds of Museum Rijswijk and in the Oude Kerk (Old Church) opposite the museum. Countless artists, papermakers and paper merchants from the Netherlands and other countries will be displaying and selling their wares.
Exhibition of jewellery by Nel Linssen in CODA Museum: Nel Linssen has been designing and making jewellery from kraft paper for more than 20 years. She folds the paper in such a way that it retains its mobility and the colour, structure and shape of the piece constantly changes when worn. The exhibition runs from 13 May through 3 September.
'Paper in Motion' in CODA Museum: 'Papier in Motion’ is the title of the fifth Kunstmanifestatie in Loenen, an exhibition of work by ten artists from the region who work in the paper mill De Middelste Molen. Their work will be on exhibition in the CODA Museum from 10 June through 10 September.
Museum Rijswijk
Herenstraat 67
2282 BR Rijswijk
+31 (0)70 390 36 17
www.museumryswyk.nl
Opening times Museum Rijswijk: Tuesday – Sunday 12-17; closed Mondays.
Entrance fees:
Adults € 5.00
Pensioners and children € 4.30
CODA Museum
Vosselmanstraat 299
7311 CL Apeldoorn
+31 (0)55 526 84 00
www.coda-apeldoorn.nl
Opening times CODA Museum: Tuesday - Friday 10-17.30; Thursday 10-20.30; Saturday 10-17; Sunday 13-17; closed Mondays.
Entrance fees:
Adults € 5.00 |
