Wolfgang Tillmans
17 Sep 2006 - 07 Jan 2007
Wolfgang Tillmans
Deer Hirsch
1995
Chromogenic development print
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Deer Hirsch
1995
Chromogenic development print
Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Wolfgang Tillmans
September 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007
This is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans is internationally recognized for creating work that captures evocative, intimate reflections of often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.
This presentation features Tillmans’s photographic and video works drawn from his entire career and includes approximately 300 photographs. His highly distinctive installations, in which photographs, inkjet prints, and color photocopies are affixed in deliberate, yet seemingly casual, arrangements on the walls, create a variety of physical and emotional relationships with the viewer based on placement and scale. The vast range of his images thus becomes an ongoing palette that he uses repeatedly as a way to rearrange and reinterpret his photographic vision. He has also frequently made discrete series of works that have touched upon particular themes such as images of soldiers or views of the Concorde.
The exhibition is co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and co-curated by Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, MCA, and Russell Ferguson, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Hammer Museum.
September 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007
This is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans is internationally recognized for creating work that captures evocative, intimate reflections of often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.
This presentation features Tillmans’s photographic and video works drawn from his entire career and includes approximately 300 photographs. His highly distinctive installations, in which photographs, inkjet prints, and color photocopies are affixed in deliberate, yet seemingly casual, arrangements on the walls, create a variety of physical and emotional relationships with the viewer based on placement and scale. The vast range of his images thus becomes an ongoing palette that he uses repeatedly as a way to rearrange and reinterpret his photographic vision. He has also frequently made discrete series of works that have touched upon particular themes such as images of soldiers or views of the Concorde.
The exhibition is co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and co-curated by Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, MCA, and Russell Ferguson, Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Hammer Museum.