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Subject(s)

• Photocollage—21st century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Copy art—21st century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Photography, Artistic—21st century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Tillmans, Wolfgang 1968-—Exhibitions [Browse]

Host institution

• Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation [Browse]

Publisher

• Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation [Browse]

Author

• McDonough, Tom, 1969- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Summary note

• "Tillmans' engagement in the politics of non-normative cultures and sexualities has been evident since his earliest photographic work from around 1990. Since then he has also consistently explored portraiture, of musicians, artists, activists and friends alike, documented the nightlife of Western metropoles, details of bodies and still lifes from everyday surroundings -- thus repeatedly seeing the world anew through a reworking of classical genres. Another important strand throughout the exhibition is the conceptual study of materiality, as in the the Silver, Lighter and Paper Drop works, which all explore photography itself and the dynamics between chance and control. The exhibition also includes a selection of tables from the series truth study center, where the surface allows montages of research into truths, science and dogma. Finally, the circulation of images is also visualised in the new video Printing Press Heidelberg Speedmaster XL -- Real Time Total Eclipse Nightfall and Exit, where the mechanical rhythm of the printing press is juxtaposed with the pace and duration of nature's macrocosm. The book Wolfgang Tillmans: What's wrong with redistribution? can be regarded as an extension of the exhibition. It is edited and designed by Wolfgang Tillmans, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and includes a new commissioned essay by Tom McDonough"--Hasselblad Foundation.
• "Wolfgang Tillmans' "truth study centre" became a fixed part of his exhibitions since he first showed a version of the multi-part tabletop installation in 2005. Often arising from local circumstances and current issues at the time of their creation, the "truth study centre" works mark an endeavour to create a clear view in ever more confusing times. Tillmans observed the paradigm shift that defines politics today early on. The scope and complexity of this project become apparent for the first time through this book, the second we have published, after "manual" in 2007, dedicated to this set of works. Over 320 pages, printed using a high-resolution technique, Tillmans presents an alternative chronology of the present. Far exceeding his original and main medium of photography, he juxtaposes a variety of contrary opinions, statements and comparisons on recurring table formats. The dimensions of the wooden tables, which he designed himself, are not arbitrary: they are built using standard British door panels, 198 cm long, and with one of four different standard widths. This book gives an overview, through lavish reproductions, of this new form of collage, in which picture, text and object "are only kept in place by their own weight." An essay by Thomas McDonough, Professor for Art History at Birmingham University, New York, places Tillmans' project within the context of twentieth-century collage, from Hannah Höch to Robert Rauschenberg. This artist's book, produced by Tillmans' Berlin atelier, includes a Fresnel magnifying glass, making it possible to zoom in on the contents and read even the smallest of printed texts"--Provided by publisher.

Notes

In conjunction with the Hasselblad Award 2015.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Other title(s)

What's wrong with redistribution?

ISBN

• 9783863358228 ((hardcover))
• 3863358228 ((hardcover))

OCLC

931542573

International Article Number

• 9783863358228

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