wolfgang tillman, an exhibition by german born photographer at regen projects, los angeles .............................................................................................................................
	wolfgang tillman regen projects, los angeles, usa october 22 - november 27, 2004 http://www.regenprojects.com wolfgang tillmans views each exhibition as a site-specific installation, often addressing the exhibition space as a larger composition. this recent work is a double register of images and abstract signs that coexist and run on parallel tracks: realistic photos on the one hand, large surfaces that measure up to four to six meters on the other, where pure formal and chromatic values reign, and which the artist entitles mental pictures, strings of life, blushes, super collider, starstruck etc. according to their respective conceptual foundation, their basic morphological pattern. these are works created without the camera, with the aid of complex manipulations of light and photosensitive paper the artist presently prefers not to reveal. the coexistence of image and abstraction in the artist’s work saves them from the dramatic pathos that these formal ends would achieve if they celebrated a definitive detachment from the visible world. ‘if this doesn’t happen it is because a total acceptance of life, the ungovernable flow of desire, passes through the work, animating those abstract surfaces after having restored the phenomena of the world to the miraculous light of the thing in itself, says wolfgang tillmans. wolfgang tillmans lives and works in london and was the winner of britain's turner prize in 2000. born in 1968, tillmans has emerged as one of the most influential and innovative photographers of his generation. his photographs first appeared in the early 1990s in the pages of such magazines as i-D, interview, and the face. tillmans has become known for his salon style hangings of bare photographic prints taped to the walls in groupings of images spanning portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, and abstractions - from provocative images of sexual taboo to moments of classical beauty found in unusual or unlikely places. regen project on december 8th of this year, the regen project gallery is pleased to announce their 15th year anniversary. regen projects will concentrate on sponsoring an ongoing series of special artist projects at a variety of locations in and around los angeles and represent the radically challenging work being created at this moment and culture. see also wolfgang tillmans’ exhibition at the hammer museum, los angeles, september 17, 2006 - january 7, 2007 http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tillmans_ham.html freischwimmer 55 © wolfgang tillmans, 2004 after storm © wolfgang tillmans, 2002 after party © wolfgang tillmans, 2002 parka © wolfgang tillmans, 2002 dans nos obscurités © wolfgang tillmans, 2004 installation view at regen projects, 2004 --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------