Paper Trails Group Exhibition

Open every day | 11am to 6pm

d'Ouwe Kerke
Dorpsstraat 16
4525 AH Retranchement
The Netherlands

Osama Alrayyan, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Alvaro Barrington, Paloma Bosquê, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Heidi Bucher, Varda Caivano, Guglielmo Castelli, Adriano Costa, Michael Dean, Mariana Castillo Deball, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Gomes, Brice Guilbert, Abul Hisham, Josi, Sanam Khatibi, Vojtěch Kovařík, Patricia Leite, José Leonilson, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Paulo Monteiro, Ebecho Muslimova, Paulo Nazareth, Antonio Obá, Rosana Paulino, Fernando Marques Penteado, Solange Pessoa, Lisa Ponti, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Maaike Schoorel, Paula Siebra, Pol Taburet, Rubem Valentim and Dan Zhu.

Mendes Wood DM is returning to the Dutch seaside for its fourth summer exhibition in the 17th-century church of the idyllic village of Retranchement, on the border with Belgium. The space is just a short bicycle ride away from Knokke, Belgium’s famed beach resort in which galleries and institutions organize cultural events throughout the summer months.

Paper Trails brings together works from a wide array of names from the gallery's roster together with a curated selection of guest artists, that have one thing in common, their use of paper – an ancient and versatile material that, though sometimes considered a modest medium, is often a fundamental and primary practice for many artists.

From watercolor and pencil to sumi ink, collage, acrylic, dry pastel, gouache, graphite, golden Chinese ink, graphite, egg and tempera, and even olive oil, concrete and earth – in abstract or figurative registers – this exhibition aims to shine a light on the many wonderful and varied possibilities of working with this medium.