Wolfgang Tillmans
02 Jun - 02 Sep 2007
WOLFGANG TILLMANS
Beugung
02. June – 02. September 2007
Following his exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, Wolfgang Tillmans presents his solo exhibition 'Beugung', which has been developed in close collaboration with and for Kunstverein München.
Taking its starting point from works as 'Sportflecken' (1996), the monochrome series of photographs that has been developing since 1997 such as ‘Impossible Colour (Green)’ (1997), and his video piece ‘Lights (Body)’ (2002), the exhibition 'Beugung' attempts a focussed and comprehensive genealogy of the notion of surface in the work of Wolfgang Tillmans. By consciously focussing on only one aspect in works of the past 15 years, the exhibition 'Beugung' reveals a close interrelation between singular and on first sight disparate groups of works. As a 'vehicle of critical thought', based on an active and participatory subject, Wolfgang Tillmans presents with 'Beugung' once again the world not as a static given but as something produced and hence changeable. Accompanying the exhibition, Wolfgang Tillmans new artist’s book ‘manual’ is published with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne.
Beugung
02. June – 02. September 2007
Following his exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, Wolfgang Tillmans presents his solo exhibition 'Beugung', which has been developed in close collaboration with and for Kunstverein München.
Taking its starting point from works as 'Sportflecken' (1996), the monochrome series of photographs that has been developing since 1997 such as ‘Impossible Colour (Green)’ (1997), and his video piece ‘Lights (Body)’ (2002), the exhibition 'Beugung' attempts a focussed and comprehensive genealogy of the notion of surface in the work of Wolfgang Tillmans. By consciously focussing on only one aspect in works of the past 15 years, the exhibition 'Beugung' reveals a close interrelation between singular and on first sight disparate groups of works. As a 'vehicle of critical thought', based on an active and participatory subject, Wolfgang Tillmans presents with 'Beugung' once again the world not as a static given but as something produced and hence changeable. Accompanying the exhibition, Wolfgang Tillmans new artist’s book ‘manual’ is published with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne.