📝 Exhibition Description:

Exactly one year after the closing of his exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and following a year at the Beaux-Arts as visiting professor, Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Galerie Chantal Crousel, extending a seamless continuous conversation with Paris.

At the core of the exhibition lies an examination of the line, which in various ways and functions, has played a major role in the artist's practice throughout the years. Tillmans's engagement with the line follows two opposite impulses that nonetheless converge in the finished image. Some lines are drawn—deliberately set, composed, controlled in their placement and colour,—while others emerge as the result of a relationship to the world built on a sense of trust, in which the world itself becomes a partner in the making of the image rather than a subject simply recorded. What looks, in language, like a contradiction—the consciously constructed set against the subconsciously arising—dissolves in the picture itself.