MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

WOLFGANG TILLMANS  

2021.05.21

Photography WOLFGANG TILLMANS
by MUSE

Exploring traditional genres with a constant interest in the limits of visibility by pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique.

Throughout his career, Wolfgang Tillmans has challenged the potentiality of making pictures and has brought a new kind of subjectivity to photography. On the occasion of his fourth solo exhibition at the Galerie Chantal Crousel, in Paris, the artist keeps exploring traditional genres such as portraiture, still life, or landscape with a constant interest in the limits of visibility by pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique. Looking at his new series of photographs a gentle feeling of intimacy and voyeurism arise as, through his unique frame and vantage point, he seems inviting us to sneak into a series of private circumstances. Some are quiet and solitary, some others show a presumably conviviality, but all of them seem to be frozen in time.

The political significance, the political readability of surfaces is something I have been interested in from an early age — even if it is the surface of a torn pair of jeans, which leads us to questions of what we consider to be beautiful.

– Wolfgang Tillmans

De-contextualized and re-assembled, they leave space for new meanings and personal interpretations.
Through the integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, Tillmans questions the existing values and hierarchies while expanding conventional ways of approaching photography and addressing the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image- saturated world.

EXHIBITION

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London’s Tate Britain presents HAPPY GAS, Sarah Lucas’ solo exhibition exploring the British artist’s forty years of work.

CINEMA

ASTEROID CITY BY WES ANDERSON

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Anderson’s new film is about a desert town where a group of young geniuses gather for an invention contest. It is a dreamlike place, à la Anderson, where the universe, the meaning of life and the meaning of death are contemplated. Like any place of the director, it is unexplored and unknown…

PHOTOGRAPHY

LUIGI & IANGO. UNVEILED

2023.09.21

A visionary creative expression characterized by breaking roles and codes, the invention and construction of characters that create a unique visual narrative, but above all reveal a truth that only Luigi & Iango know how to capture.

SPRÜTH MAGERS

NORA TURATO

2023.09.15

Playing with a direct, fast-paced wording and an instant, common lexicon, Nora Turato creates new recounting and convincing connections. Her work involves the comment and adaptation of existing material, slightly processing their forms and meanings.

FASHION

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion

2023.09.15

The exhibition represents a close collaboration between The Design Museum in London and the British Fashion Council, carried out by exploring the artistic and creative work of different designers revolving around London’s reality. Clothes and fashion accessories are the focus of the survey carried out for REBEL.