Castello di
Rivoli
WolfgangTillmans, Podium, 1999
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Wolfgang
Tillmans: View from above
Curated by Giorgio Verzotti
February 20 May 5, 2002
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Wolfgang Tillmans. View from above
February 20 - May 5, 2002
Curated by Giorgio Verzotti
Catalogue Charta, Milan
International critics consider Tillmans one of the most innovative
photographers of his generation. The artist became well known in the
early 1990s with photographs that, on the one hand referred to pop and
alternative culture and addressed sexual taboos, and on the other hand
proposed an esthetic outside the usual mold. His works appear not only
in publications such as Interview, Index and the English alternative
magazine i-D, but also are used by the mass media and recognized by an
increasingly broad public.
In 2000 Tillmans was the recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize,
awarded by Tate Britain in London. Mary Horlock, curator of the
catalogue, writes: "Tillmans is an artist who considers issues of
esthetics and conventional codes of representation. [] he pushes
beyond the surface of contemporary culture and encourages us to do the
same."
Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid (Germany); from 1987 to 1990 he
lived and worked in Hamburg, where he had his first solo exhibitions,
and then moved to England, where he attended the Bournemouth & Poole
College of Art & Design. In 1994-1995 he lived in New York. Since 1993
he has exhibited in Cologne, Frankfurt, Zurich, London, Paris, New York
and Berlin. In 1995 the Kunsthalle in Zurich held a solo exhibition of
his work; that same year he had exhibitions at Portikus in Frankfurt and
then in Los Angeles and London. The following year his exhibition
schedule included a solo show at the Kunstmuseum in Wolfsburg; in 1997
he had his first solo exhibition in Italy, at the Galleria S.A.L.E.S. in
Rome.
His more recent exhibitions include a solo show at Espacio Uno, Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, in 1998, and Soldiers, at
the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, in 1999. Tillmans has
participated in extremely prestigious group exhibitions, including
Apocalypse, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2000); Quotidiana, Castello
di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli (2000); Zero Gravity,
Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (2001); Century City: Art and
Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London (2001). After
being presented at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Tillmans' solo
exhibition View from above will be seen on the third floor of the Manica
Lunga of Castello di Rivoli, before moving on to the Palais de Tokyo in
Paris, from June 8 to September 15, and at the Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art in Humlebaek, from October 11 to January 19 2003.
This exhibition presents a new phase in the artist's work, where he is
showing ink-jet prints of an abstract nature, along with his
photographs. The process of abstraction is achieved not only in the
darkroom, but also can take place as the result of a particular shot: a
foreground of a teacup, the folds in a garment, the detail of a
snow-covered street. In the catalogue, Giorgio Verzotti writes of the
most recent pieces: "Tillmans' recent work is a double register of
images and abstract signs that coexist and run on parallel tracks. The
realistic photos run up against the large surfaces where pure formal and
chromatic values reign, which the artist names according to their
formulation. These are works created without the camera, through a
complex manipulation of light in direct contact with photosensitive
paper []."
Catalogue by Charta, Milan. Text by Giorgio Verzotti and interview with
Nathan Kernan.
MM
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