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Current Exhibition:
Exhibition running from Sept. 2026 – Jan. 2027
All work are for sale only during the exhibition dates.
Curatorial statement:
Historically entwined, collage and paper have long shared a lineage that often reduces the former to a practice rooted in cut-outs and flat surfaces. But in this exhibition, we reclaim paper not as a limit, but as a generative force. Here, paper is not the background—it is the protagonist. Through diverse approaches, the featured artists dismantle traditional expectations of both material and medium to open new ways of seeing, building, and thinking with paper.
Featuring the work from:
Featuring the work from:
LOLA DUPRE
Lola Dupre's work begins with the transformation of existing images. Through hundreds of carefully selected fragments, she reconstructs photographs and illustrations until they become something new, often moving between representation and abstraction.
"This work comes from a dream I think born from paranoid thoughts about the spiraling effects of one small mistake and the impossible situations we then find ourselves in."
L.D.
A Prison of My Own Design
8.2 × 11.6 inches
Paper collage on panel
2025
NACHO MARTÍN SILVA
Martín Silva builds his images by destroying them first: paintings get made, photographed, then dissolved with solvent, and the damaged remains become material for the next collage in the chain. It's a process that only ends when there's nothing left to reuse.
Piece of Trash 5
42 × 54.62 cm
Collage and painting
2017
Available in 1 size
Edition of 15
42 × 54.62 cm
Collage and painting
2017
Available in 1 size
Edition of 15
Limited Edition
Print
"I believe collage has undeniable historical weight, and that historical weight can only be achieved through its own critical perspective. It is the first form of manipulating other people's images, reusing materials, decontextualizing, recontextualizing... Arte Povera, Dadaism, readymades... Collage existed before it was called collage."
N.M.S.
ALVARO NADDEO
Naddeo builds his scenes first as 3D sculpture, then flattens them into a single watercolour view, chasing consumer debris the way Pop Art once chased consumer glamour. Shopping carts, obsolete signage, and twenty years spent inside the advertising industry surface here as the ruins of a culture that has already used itself up.
"The subject matter of my work is waste, overconsumption and social inequality. Trash and objects found in the street are valuable, and not only for aesthetic reasons."
A.N.
JOHN WHITLOCK
Whitlock's images pass through several states before they're finished: a small paper collage, a large-scale charcoal drawing, then a reassembly in cut canvas and paint. Each step blurs the source a little further, leaving fragments that feel familiar without resolving into what they once were.
"Familiarity through abstraction. My work is about transformation and the reframing of the familiar. Ordinary images take on an ambiguous meaning when stripped of their context and resurfaced into new, kaleidoscopic form."
J.W.
Craftsmen
Appx. 8” x 12”
Collage, spray paint, ink, on paper
2026
Available in 4 sizes
Edition varies by size
Appx. 8” x 12”
Collage, spray paint, ink, on paper
2026
Available in 4 sizes
Edition varies by size
Limited Edition Print
From 175EUR
ANTHONY WHITE
White paints without paint: his surfaces are built strand by strand from extruded PLA, a biodegradable plastic pushed through a pen-like tool over more than 140 hours per piece. From a distance it reads as painting; up close it turns tactile, closer to textile or relief.
"Influenced by 16th- and 17th-century Dutch vanitas paintings, I explore the interactions between objects and their environments, and people and their surroundings. My work seeks to capture the essence of the mundane while offering nuanced and often overlooked interpretations of the world."
A.W.
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"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."
David Hockney
in conversation with Paul Joyce.
1988