The first Di Carta / Papermade exhibition displays three different types of artworks: art prints, artists’ books, and installations. It brings together approximately 80 artworks by Italian and international artists (about 50 art prints, 12 artists’ books and 15 installations).
Artists can freely choose the subject of their works.

At the heart of this multifaceted exhibition is paper, a poor material that in our virtual and multimedia age still is the privileged medium to convey culture. Paper is much more than a support: it turns into a ductile and malleable material, a medium that conveys meaning and a three-dimensional source of inspiration that interacts with the surrounding space.
Paper can be manipulated, embossed, cut, printed with digital techniques, or simply enhanced in its natural texture using images created with traditional printmaking techniques.

Today, paper -which is both fragile and malleable- seems to offer the artist two different meanings: on one hand, it represents the safe tradition founded on human values and, on the other hand, it embodies the plastic metaphor of an uncertain time in which everything falls apart and nothing lasts.

The exhibition depicts a global village in which wider differences can be noticed within the garden of one single nation than between East and West, the “close opposites”. The boundaries between languages and art genres become as fragile as paper, inviting us to cross them. Artistic techniques overlap, prints become books, books become installations, and a paper sheet turns into an installation itself, as it gives a different shape to the space where it hangs.

This exhibition aims to connect various art languages: graphics, artists’ books, installations-…and the voices of single artworks, trying to start an almost impossible dialogue.
However, mystery and surprise are all part of the game.

The curator Valeria Bertesina

The exhibition catalogue is available.

Works 1st Edition

Artists 1st Edition