On the occasion of the 18th edition of the Day of the Contemporary, Marignana Arte is pleased to present the exhibition Hand made paper 1981-1988 by Nancy Genn, a new chapter of the collaborative journey that began with the exhibition Living Painting in 2018. This new exhibition is thus not a starting point, but a specific development within a more articulated discourse, aimed at analysing a peculiar moment in the research of Nancy Genn, one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art.

The exhibition Hand made paper 1981-1988 defines a specific time frame. The 1980s are in fact particularly significant years for the artist, who right at the end of the previous decade had obtained the prestigious United States/Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, a scholarship that would offer her the opportunity to reside in Japan for at least six months. The papers on display in this exhibition thus represent the outcome of a fundamental encounter for the artist, the one with the East, which from then on would influence all her work in various ways.