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First Big Parisian Exhibition for Artist Paul Wallach at Galerie Jaeger Bucher

PARIS.- American artist Paul Wallach is showing some twenty recent works for his first big Parisian exhibition under the title “Falling Up”. Born in New York in 1960, Wallach studied History of Art and of Artisanry at Wisconsin and Boston University, then worked with Mark di Suvero as artist in residence in the 1990s, before moving to Paris – where he still lives – in 1994. His minimalist sculptures are exempted from narrative content. They emerge off the wall at a dynamic point and unfold in space, as if suspended in dialogue with it. After an extended moment of observation, the materials, completely mixed –wood, plaster, fabric, metal or glass- take on a coherence that gives the work unity. These different materials overlap, because of their own specific weight, in order to generate a delicate balance, resulting