GLENN LOWRY: Curator, Christophe Cherix.
CHRISTOPHE CHERIX: German sculptor, Thomas Schütte started to make drawings in the 1980s as diaries of his life. In 2001, however, he decided to turn to printmaking to turn a diary of the year 2001 into an installation itself.
What Schütte proposes through that work is to allow the viewer to literally enter his mind at a certain time and to go through this catalog of images, all of them being of equal importance for him and his artistic practice.
And you are free basically to decide your own path through the 139 etchings exhibited in this space.
What’s interesting in that series is that the etchings not only document different themes and interest of Schütte at that point but as well bring in a number of events which marked that year, the most well known being, of course, attacks on the World Trade Center.