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Thomas Schütte’s portfolio Low Tide Wandering functions as his diary for 2001. The artist’s decision to change formats—from his usual habit of drawing in sketchbooks to the traditional and then-unfamiliar process of etching—came out of a desire to “switch to the opposite direction,” he explained, at a time when computers and digital processes were becoming ubiquitous in visual art. The 139 self-published etchings, installed for the exhibition by the artist, create an architecture of paper and form a visual lexicon of Schütte’s artistic and personal concerns during that time, permeated by his reactions to current events such as the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.
Low Tide Wandering (Wattwanderung) [moma-05]
