This exhibition has been held during the summer of 2006: Press release The Holland Paper Biennial will be held for the sixth time from 10 June - 10 September 2006 and will be exhibited at two museums: Museum Rijswijk and the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn The 2006 Holland Paper Biennial will consist of: an exhibition of the work of 28 international paper artists in both museums; a publication entitled Paper takes flight; a shop selling books and paper and on Sunday 10 September 2006, 13:00 - 17:00, a grand paper fair in Museum Rijswijk and the Old Church opposite the museum. Opening times Museum Rijswijk: Tuesday - Sunday 12:00-17:00. Closed Mondays. The exhibition The work of 28 international paper artists will be presented at the 2006 Holland Paper Biennial, spread over two museums. A wide selection of work by 22 artists will be on show throughout the premises of Museum Rijswijk, while large-scale work, installations and artist's books by 20 artists will be exhibited at the CODA Museum. The artists selected for this Holland Paper Biennial all work closely with the material paper. For some the starting point is pure fibre, while others make their own pulp from a mixture of fibres. A number of artists use handmade or industrially produced paper, which is worked by means of presses, 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. 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 been blown or floated in on the wind or tide. 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 a sort of labyrinth using screens of lokta 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. 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. The 28 artists taking part in the 2006 Holland Paper Biennial are as follows: Museum Rijswijk: Lucia Barata (Brazil), Dominique De Beir (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), Jean-Claude Correia (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). Grand paper fair 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. The book Paper takes flight A special publication entitled Paper takes flight will accompany the 2006 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 in flight (Dutch/Eng): published by Uitgeverij Compres bv in Leiden and designed by Loes Schepens in The Hague. ISBN 90-73803-07-1; Purchase price euro 59.95 www.hollandpapierbiennale.nl For more information: Museum Rijswijk +31(0)70 390 36 17 www.museumryswyk.nl CODA Museum +31(0)055 5268 400 www.coda-apeldoorn.nl
