MATTHIAS ODIN – RUE DE PARIS
2026-01-05Parallax Hotel. The café on the corner, the one we always go to. Matthias walks to my left. I adjust to his pace. The shops are fogged-up cubes. Outside, it is barely ten degrees, and already too warm. He presses his hand against the glass, leans forward to look through it, and talks about what we were waiting for when we came here. He would like the exhibition title to reflect this.
Not only his work, but also the environment in which it came into being. I think he fears conditioning, that what he makes might only exist in a floating state, without roots or branches, nothing but a trunk. This is what happens when we forget the circumstances in which a work was created. I would never have been interested in art if it did not involve the artist. M. speaks of his “spiritual accomplices,” an expression I often hear him use to refer to the artists who inspire him: Joseph Cornell above all, then Curtis Cuffie and Isa Genzken, who work from what they see in the street. But also Californian assemblage artists such as Bruce Conner, and those who engage with inhabitants and with the city in its morphology, Gordon Matta-Clark or Gregor Schneider, for instance.
Opposite – Compress’ in the city, 2024
Exhibition runs through to February 27th, 2026
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
11 Rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Pari
