Wolfgang Tillmans
dal 5/6/2003 al 14/9/2003
Segnalato da
5/6/2003
Wolfgang Tillmans
Tate Britain, London
A solo exhibition of the work of the Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans in June 2003. This will be his first monographic museum exhibition in the UK and has been conceived especially for Tate Britain. Fittingly, it will reflect the artist's longstanding relationship to London and will include new work made specifically for the show, along with a range of images selected from throughout his career.
Tate Britain will hold a solo exhibition of the work of the Turner Prize winner Wolfgang
Tillmans in June 2003. Born in Germany, but based in London, Tillmans has built up a
considerable reputation in the last ten years, working almost exclusively as a
photographic artist. This will be his first monographic museum exhibition in the UK and
has been conceived especially for Tate Britain. Fittingly, it will reflect the artist's
longstanding relationship to London and will include new work made specifically for the
show, along with a range of images selected from throughout his career.
Tillmans' figurative photographs present us with a compelling alternative to
conventional ideas about beauty - his landscapes, still-lifes and portraits have a
distinctive energy, often appearing spontaneous and improvisatory when in fact they are
carefully planned. He also recently began to make abstract compositions by
manipulating the effects of light on photo-sensitive paper. While continuing to explore
the potential of the still image Tillmans has begun to work with video, collaborating with
the pop group, the Pet Shop Boys, on a music video and making a large-scale video
installation, Lights (Body) 2000-2. He will make a new film to be premiered at Tate
Britain during this exhibition.
Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany and studied photography at
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design (1990-1992). He has lived and
worked in Berlin, Cologne, London and New York, but settled in London permanently in
1996. He has been awarded various prizes: the Böttcherstrasse Prize in Bremen (1995),
the ars viva Prize, from the Kulturkreisder Deutschen Wirtschaft (1995) and the Turner
Prize (2000). He has exhibited extensively worldwide and in the UK and his highly
acclaimed retrospective exhibition, The View from Above, is currently touring major
European museums.
Image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Wake 2001
© The artist, courtesy Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
The exhibition is curated by Mary Horlock, Curator, Tate Britain, in collaboration with
the artist. A catalogue will be available to coincide with the exhibition.
Tate Britain
Millbank SW1P 4RG
London