View outside Galarie Chantal Crousel

I stumbled (stumbling is a TI theme this week) into Galarie Chantal Crousel this weekend while on an art tour in the Marais. I didn't stop to read the legend on the door but just wandered around the room squinting at this series of photographs that felt oddly...familiar. "Wolfgang Tilmans?" I mused to the young curator who was serving as our guide that afternoon. It sure was and it is hallmark of a very distinct artist when what at first glance reads as a random series of images actually converges to communicate a clear and unmistakable identity. "Strings" is Tilmans' first solo exhibition in Paris since 2002's s "Vue d’en Haut", and I came out this show with a new found respect for his handling of a random that is not at all random. It is a hard thing to pull off and the work in total communicates a very sculptural and graphic idea because of the way the visual objects are arranged around the room. Even the receptionist loomed in my mind as a Wolfgang Tilman's photograph waiting to happen.

STRINGS
September 13 – October 25, 2008
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