05/07 Pop-up gallery Paperworks presents exhibition 'Paperworks Editions'

From Thursday the 5th July at 19:00 the Island's new exhibition; the 'Paperworks Editions' project from Moscow's Paperworks Gallery will be open.

The exhibition will be held in the Island's Art Gallery - the white container - and admission is free!

The Art Gallery is open from 12:00 - 20:00 and the exhibition is supported by the Grolsch brand.

At the end of 2011 Paperworks Gallery opened two publishing lines, thus creating new opportunities for collectors and art lovers. Co-owner of the gallery Evgeny Mitta speaks about the 'Paperworks Editions' project: 

"Graphic editions are a self-contained area within the market of contemporary art, which have a great tradition and a major historical past. For example, in England, graphic editions appeared with the advent of printing. These were independent works, which have always been more accessible to collectors. In past centuries, these works carried and disseminated a lot of information: as a rule, such works reported news, or commentaries on the Bible. And now, during our period of Modernism, Postmodernism, they exist as separate works of art. Graphics had a special impetus in the era of Pop Art, when artists began to use limited edition art, silk screen printing, not only on paper, but also on canvas, like Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg. Along with works on canvas and with other materials the artists did editions with paper products, and now most of these works have great collectible value. Certainly everything that is created by our contemporary artists has big potential - its artistic value and its value as an investment. Today graphic print editions are much cheaper than can be appreciated in the future. The number of prints is reflected in the price: the smaller the number of prints the higher the price. Since the beginning of our project, we haven’t exceeded 50 copies: Pavel Pepperstein - 49, Valery Chtak - 30. All of them are signed and numbered. The Valery Chtak album was published in Moscow, Pepperstein’s - in Italy, because they are different types of work: Chtak's - silkscreen, Pepperstein's - lithography. At the moment in Russia graphic print editions are not as popular as in the West thus our work includes promotional and outreach activities. In fact, Paperworks Gallery started out as a space for art works on paper, only later have we expanded into other genres and now work with all media - video, sculpture, painting, installation and so on. We decided to launch graphic printed editions as a separate direction of work -"PAPERWORKS EDITIONS." 

Pavel Pepperstein - artist, writer, critic and art theorist. In 2009 Pepperstein was a finalist for the ‘Kandinsky Prize’ and the Project of the Year with the exhibition project ‘City of Russia,’ presented by Regina Gallery. In the same year he participated in the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russian pavilion, project ‘Victory over the Future,’ curated by Olga Sviblova).

Valery Chtak was the student of Avdei Ter-Oganyan and Anatoly Osmolovsky, Valery Chtak is one of the most promising Russian artists and he has attracted special attention from Western curators. He works within the medias of drawing, painting, objects, installations.Valery Chtak took part in three of the Moscow Biennales of Contemporary Art. In the period 2000-2005 he took an active part in the art association "Radek".