Perrotin launched an online exhibition dedicated exclusively to works on paper. The show brings together the gallery’s acclaimed roster, including Claire Tabouret, Jean-Marie Appriou, Kim Chong-Hak, Daniel Arsham, Laurent Grasso, Emi Kuraya, Nikki Maloof and Aya Takano.
Vincent Van Gogh once proclaimed that “drawing is the root of everything.” It’s here, the preliminary sketches, the first act to transfer thought to form, that PAPERS takes shape. Born in Marseille, but now based in Los Angeles, Tabouret presents two California-inspired depictions of young girls made using woodcut and ink. Grasso, on the other hand, transports viewers into an idyllic past — floating somewhere between fiction and reality — where orbital structures float along the famous Pyramids of Giza.
While known today for numerous collaborations with Pokémon and Tiffany & Co., Arsham maintains his daily drawing routine as the foundation to his multi-disciplinary practice. As he’s never stuck to one city, the Hotel Sketches series was devised as a way to archive his travels and explore his anthropological interests across the stationary of the hotel.
PAPERS is currently on view online.
