STRASBOURG.- Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg presents Christopher Wool, on view through September 24, 2006. Born in 1955, Christopher Wool belongs to the group of artists which emerged in SoHo, New York, during the 1980s; this generation of artists included Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach and Robert Grober. Wood is known especially for the texts in black and white which he painted during the 1990s, using famous quotations drawn from Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, or borrowed from George Clinton or Mohammed Ali. Wood cut these quotations up randomly and encrypted them. The viewer is encouraged to see his works at first as an abstract collection of letters, only subsequently to discover their shocking and cynical meaning.

During the 1990s, Wood radically altered his method, and started using erasing and destruction as means of image production. His oeuvre is filled with dark humour but is also consistently poetic. He is among the most representative recent American artists. This exhibition was co-produced by IVAM, and features 40 paintings and several series of drawings and photographs.