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Paper Like Steel brings together major examples from Anthony Caro's innovative Obama series; these wall-mounted works in paper will be shown alongside some of Caro's freestanding paper sculptures. Paper might seem a surprising medium for the so-called 'man of steel', but in fact it materialised several times over the course of about twenty years - having first appeared in 1981 - and then most notably during his first visit to Japan in 1990.

Paper gave Caro the opportunity to explore the three-dimensional possibilities of the blank page and gave him a new freedom for …