Paul Thuile draws on paper as well as on MDF boards, capturing – consciously fragmentary and reduced to outline lines – human living spaces such as rooms, staircases, or desks. He usually has a personal connection to these spaces. They are in a way memory images that are closely linked to the places as well as to the people. Lately, he has been drawing more and more in places that are about to be demolished or redesigned. There, the artist places transient drawings directly on the walls of the rooms. For a moment, they pay homage to the place before its transformation into art. And then they are destroyed along with the place. What remains is a photograph of the drawing in the space, which is taken by a photographer under Paul Thuile’s precise instructions and which he constantly considers in the drawing process. What is fascinating is that for Thuile, this photograph is not only a carrier of memories of the no longer existing artwork but also that the photograph and the drawing on the wall form a unity. They enable a completely new way of looking at the space in the picture. What is striking about Paul Thuile’s drawings is the fragmentation, the special perspective, and also the slightly vibrating line work. This is particularly pronounced in the wall drawings, where he stands very close to the wall and only draws what he can reach within the radius of his drawing hand. This results in oblique perspectives and distortions. It becomes exciting in comparison with the photograph, which on the one hand is usually taken straight on and on the other hand, therefore, does not always capture the template of the drawing in the room.
