Georges Tony Stoll's Art of Passages at Galerie cent8

Georges Tony Stoll's exhibition at Galerie cent8 in Paris, running from March 6 to April 14, 2007, presents a non-hierarchical array of works including canvases, drawings, photographs, constructions, and a sound installation. The show emphasizes 'glissements' (slidings) between pieces rather than continuity or rupture. It opens with the pop-like canvas 'Célébrations' (2006), followed by the photograph 'Homme lié' (2003) depicting a man with arms crossed behind his back, suggesting the memory of a bond. Four large pastels 'Space Cowboys' (2006) appear weightless on paper. The exhibition culminates with 'Images-Voix' (2004), which replaces images with their written descriptions, asserting that the viewer's own imagination is the source of evocative power. A central photograph, 'Homme pressé' (2007), creates a monstrous figure by duplicating and slightly misaligning two halves of a torso, implying infinite self-generated mutations. The selection mixes recent works with older ones, defying chronology. Stoll's practice is described as 'inactuel' and driven by error as a creative force. In an exhibition text, the artist states that the quest for harmony may result in failure, which pushes one to invent the bizarre and unprecedented. This anti-method is exemplified by 'Mon chef-d'œuvre' (2003), an assembly of three plywood building forms covered in gold paint.