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CODA Museum puts on a grand display with CODA Paper Art 2019 TEXT AND PHOTOS: CODA PAPER ART 2019
Paper amazes and inspires. The strength of paper is both unique and versatile, and the beauty and rich colouring go hand in hand with themes like sustainability, current issues and innovation. CODA’s transparent, open building offers fantastic potential for installations and large spatial works: after a highly successful edition in 2017, CODA Museum Apeldoorn presents CODA Paper Art 2019, an exhibition that provides ample space – both literally and figuratively – for the installations, spatial works and jew70 | Issue 65 | May 2019
ellery of artists from the Netherlands and abroad whose work is centred around paper and cardboard.
staggering and dynamic but sometimes also moving and subtle ways.
Paper is a fantastic material that has inspired artists to create impressive works of art for centuries. The structure, texture, divergent traits and infinite possibilities of paper enchant and inspire. Paper and cardboard are relatively simple and fairly cheap materials that, combined with traditional and modern techniques and the artist’s inspiration, show their endless possibilities and expressive power in
Through juggling, ripping, disassembling and then reassembling photographs, Kensuke Koike (Japan, 1980) creates new images with their own independent lives, just barely connected with their previous ones. The cut is Koike’s medium. Slicing, collaging, and weaving are his methods, and scissors, scalpels, and even a pasta maker are his tools. Koike is best known for his Single
Kensuke Koike