bali
16 Feb - 06 May 2007
Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 102, 2004
Photography © Wolfgang Tillmans
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Photography © Wolfgang Tillmans
Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
BALI
16 February – 06 May 2007
For the first time in five years, Wolfgang Tillmans is once again displaying works in an extensive soloexhibition in Germany. The kestnergesellschaft is presenting two new directions of his artistic activity which profoundly occupy the attention of the winner of the Turner Prize. Appearing at the same time is what is up to now his most comprehensive book project, namely the artist’s book Manual, whose more than four hundred pages contain his most recent works and the complete archival material of the last five years.
To be seen in Hall III is the large-scale display-case installation Truth Study Centre, which was realized in 2005 in smaller variants for the first time in London and, in 2006, in the USA as well as Helsinki, but which remains unknown in Germany up to now. The labyrinthine, lightweight display cases contain photographs and further visual material such as photocopies, inkjet prints as well as texts and brochures which constitute an essential aspect of the artistic repertoire of Wolfgang Tillmans and which may be read as quotations of his oeuvre.
Presented in Hall IV is a composition of large-scale pictures which, as framed C-prints, partly arise from black-and-white copies and partly represent abstractions. The latter are created in direct developmental procedures, without a camera, through the effect of light on the photographic paper. The resultant colored fields and filigreed patters of these poetical works leave much room for the fantasy of the viewer. Tillmans conceives of these abstract pictures as possibilities for completing and extending his figurative works.
Tillman’s figurative pictures often seem like snapshots but are in fact well considered and carefully arranged.
The focus of his attention can be people just as well as an ashtray upon a table or an empty apartment after a party. The deliberate selection, preparation and treatment of the motif is a constantly applied, fundamental principle of his oeuvre, in which the central motif, whether it be a figure, a plate with asparagus and strawberries, naked bodies or cast-aside jeans, takes on a strong presence.
Wolfgang Tillmans, born in 1968 in Remscheid, has lived and worked for fifteen years in London. After his unconventional beginnings with black-and-white copies and enlargements of highly diverse visual material and details, he subsequently had a decisive influence on the aesthetic of the 1990s through his magazine reporting about the club scene and current fashions for such lifestyle periodicals as "Tempo" and "I-D." Even today Wolfgang Tillmans participates in various contexts through his photography – his spectrum extends from HIV information brochures through portraits commissioned by newspapers and magazines all the way to artists’ books and permanent exhibitions.
16 February – 06 May 2007
For the first time in five years, Wolfgang Tillmans is once again displaying works in an extensive soloexhibition in Germany. The kestnergesellschaft is presenting two new directions of his artistic activity which profoundly occupy the attention of the winner of the Turner Prize. Appearing at the same time is what is up to now his most comprehensive book project, namely the artist’s book Manual, whose more than four hundred pages contain his most recent works and the complete archival material of the last five years.
To be seen in Hall III is the large-scale display-case installation Truth Study Centre, which was realized in 2005 in smaller variants for the first time in London and, in 2006, in the USA as well as Helsinki, but which remains unknown in Germany up to now. The labyrinthine, lightweight display cases contain photographs and further visual material such as photocopies, inkjet prints as well as texts and brochures which constitute an essential aspect of the artistic repertoire of Wolfgang Tillmans and which may be read as quotations of his oeuvre.
Presented in Hall IV is a composition of large-scale pictures which, as framed C-prints, partly arise from black-and-white copies and partly represent abstractions. The latter are created in direct developmental procedures, without a camera, through the effect of light on the photographic paper. The resultant colored fields and filigreed patters of these poetical works leave much room for the fantasy of the viewer. Tillmans conceives of these abstract pictures as possibilities for completing and extending his figurative works.
Tillman’s figurative pictures often seem like snapshots but are in fact well considered and carefully arranged.
The focus of his attention can be people just as well as an ashtray upon a table or an empty apartment after a party. The deliberate selection, preparation and treatment of the motif is a constantly applied, fundamental principle of his oeuvre, in which the central motif, whether it be a figure, a plate with asparagus and strawberries, naked bodies or cast-aside jeans, takes on a strong presence.
Wolfgang Tillmans, born in 1968 in Remscheid, has lived and worked for fifteen years in London. After his unconventional beginnings with black-and-white copies and enlargements of highly diverse visual material and details, he subsequently had a decisive influence on the aesthetic of the 1990s through his magazine reporting about the club scene and current fashions for such lifestyle periodicals as "Tempo" and "I-D." Even today Wolfgang Tillmans participates in various contexts through his photography – his spectrum extends from HIV information brochures through portraits commissioned by newspapers and magazines all the way to artists’ books and permanent exhibitions.