Wolfgang Tillmans
Munich Installation 1991-2004, 2005
27 Jan - 11 Jun 2006
The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968), now living in London, is considered to be one of the most successful photographers on the international scene today. His cosmos of pictures reads like a visual diary of the Seventies generation.
Tillmans, who took up photography as a boy, worked mainly for youth and lifestyle magazines like »i-D« in the early Nineties. Since 1993, he has been exhibiting his work in well-known galleries and museums of repute. In the year 2000, he was the first German artist to win the prestigious Turner Prize. Tillmans¿ works include both snapshot-like images that appear to capture spontaneously a particular moment in time as well as precisely planned photographs composed in an elaborately detailed setting. He covers a vast range of subjects and brings them together by means of diverse techniques and dimensions to create installations consisting of different parts. In doing so, he rejects all forms of visual hierarchisation, and any distinction between free photography and commissioned works. For him, motifs of high or low significance do not exist: »If one thing matters, everything matters«. In Tillmans¿ universe, reality is split up into an array of pictures that are integrated into a formally structured, multi-layered system of relationships.
For the Pinakothek der Moderne Tillmans has now devised a 23-part installation that he is presenting to the viewing public for the first time.
www.pinakothek.de/pinakothek-der-moderne
Tillmans, who took up photography as a boy, worked mainly for youth and lifestyle magazines like »i-D« in the early Nineties. Since 1993, he has been exhibiting his work in well-known galleries and museums of repute. In the year 2000, he was the first German artist to win the prestigious Turner Prize. Tillmans¿ works include both snapshot-like images that appear to capture spontaneously a particular moment in time as well as precisely planned photographs composed in an elaborately detailed setting. He covers a vast range of subjects and brings them together by means of diverse techniques and dimensions to create installations consisting of different parts. In doing so, he rejects all forms of visual hierarchisation, and any distinction between free photography and commissioned works. For him, motifs of high or low significance do not exist: »If one thing matters, everything matters«. In Tillmans¿ universe, reality is split up into an array of pictures that are integrated into a formally structured, multi-layered system of relationships.
For the Pinakothek der Moderne Tillmans has now devised a 23-part installation that he is presenting to the viewing public for the first time.
www.pinakothek.de/pinakothek-der-moderne