Paul Wallach exhibits his work at galerie Jaeger Bucher until March 13th, 2010. A laudatory article on the artist’s work was published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine on January 16th. The author, Andreas Platthaus retraces on more than half a page Paul Wallach’s background and reveals many aspects of his work.
Below, the article entitled “Play on what our mind perceives” :
“A little over ten years ago, the roof of Paul Wallach’s studio was blown off. On December 26th, 1999, Hurricane Lothar devastated Europe and caused very serious damage in and around Paris.
At Versailles, for example, a large plantation of Castle Park was uprooted. But that day, other parts of wood have also experienced significant damage.
At Ivry-sur-Seine especially, in the southeast suburbs of Paris, where the sculptor Paul Wallach had established his studio since 1994. He occupied the heights of the building, an old perfume factory.
Were French women fleeing chic? Was luxury no longer appropriate? In any case, the owner recognized that there was nothing to gain by maintaining production. So he rented out to artists all four floors of the building.
Paul Wallach was one of the first to move there. Born in 1960 in New York, the sculptor had just landed in Paris after several years in Düsseldorf, 
Germany. He chose to install his studio in the attic. A choice that would have serious consequences five years later.
“I had just left to spend Christmas in Austria, with the family of my wife. When we came back, my studio was in the air. My tools – and some of my sculptures – were intact where I had left them before leaving. However, a sculpture especially complex had been washed away by the wind along with the roof. It was laying on the ground in the street, several meters away.“
While Paul Wallach recalls that in the factory yard, he looked with nostalgia at the roof terrace, which was repaired long ago, over the long row of windows. After the event, he chose to locate his new studio below in an old factory which unique floor is advances in the courtyard. Here, we feel nothing of the wind currently blowing in Paris. “
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In this exhibition, Hanns Schimansky is showing 40 drawings made between 2007 and 2010. These drawings, written as much as drawn, attempt to capture and to prolong the present moment, to mirror the rhythm of the universe. Using and provoking the idea of chance, he metaphorically slows the headlong speed at which we live in today’s world, dominated as it is by the media. Geometric shapes and intercrossing, looping lines, accentuated by the folds in the paper he uses, form Schimansky’s unmistakeable energetic graphic style: cities and landscapes appear, through which we are invited to travel.
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