'Fascination: Paper' at the European Commission

For the 20th anniversary of the association, CEPI’s offices changed its decoration and hosted the ‘Fascination Paper’ exhibition organised by IAPMA – the International Association of Paper and Paper Making Artists. This exhibition was then moved to the Breydel building of the European Commission where it was hosted for a month.IAPMA created this exhibition for its 25th anniversary and CEPI (the Confederation of European Paper Industries) decided to make it available to the Brussels circle and exhibit parts of it for CEPI’s 20th anniversary in the Breydel building of the European Commission. The exhibits showcase 56 artists from 18 countries and the paper art displayed varies from traditional to experimental. Paper installations, objects, three dimensional paper artworks, pulp painting, paper jewellery, book objects, collage, assemblage in small or large scale are exhibited.

The exhibition showed 56 artists from 18 countries and the paper art displayed varies from traditional to experimental. Paper installations, objects, three dimensional paper artworks, pulp painting, paper jewellery, book objects, collage, assemblage in small or large scale were exhibited. The objects on display showed that paper can be very thin yet very stable; it can also be thick and heavy. Paper fibres can be completely homogeneous or varied, and can create surfaces ranging from fluffy and soft to coarse and rough, sometimes equalling the stability of hardwood. Thanks to is usual two-dimensionality, it can be moulded and folded into any desired shape. No other material has so many different characteristics.