MANIFESTO

#64

MUSE TWENTY FANZINE

TO LOOK WITHOUT FEAR

2022.09.12

From September 12, 2022 until January 1, 2023 Wolfgang Tillmans: to look without fear invites the viewer to experience the artist’s vision of what it feels like to live today.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear, the artist’s first museum survey in New York, in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Unique groupings of approximately 350 of Tillmans’s photographs, videos, and multimedia installations are displayed according to a loose chronology throughout the Museum’s sixth floor. Informed by new scholarship and eight years of dialogue with the artist, the exhibition highlights how Tillmans’s profoundly inventive, philosophical, and creative approach is both informed by and designed to highlight the social and political causes for which he has been an advocate throughout his career. From the outset of his career, Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Germany) has revolutionized the prevailing conventions of photographic presentation, making connections between his pictures themselves in response to a given context and activating the space of the exhibition by hanging photographs in a corner, above a doorframe, on a free-standing column, or next to a fire extinguisher. In developing his own language for these overall installations, Tillmans’s practice verges into a sculptural dimension. The decisive logic of his practice is a visual democracy, best summarized by his phrase “If one thing matters, everything matters.” 

August self portrait (2005).
Lutz & Alex sitting in the trees (1992).
The Cock (kiss) (2002).
Tukan (Toucan, 2010).
Frank, in the shower (2015).

“I see my installations as a reflection of the way I see, the way I perceive or want to perceive my environment.”

– Wolfgang Tillmans

Icestorm (2001).
Venus transit (2004).
Concrete Column III (2021).

PHOTOGRAPHY

Roe Ethridge. Happy Birthday Louise Parker

2024.02.21

Returned to the city as an important space for cultural dissemination, the exhibition floor unveils to the public for the first time the first part of the program that interweaves – with an international gaze – visual arts, fashion, design and the publishing scene. An unprecedented experience of discovery and fruition takes visitors through the environments in an ascending climax.

Miranda July: New Society

2024.02.21

Osservatorio Prada presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Miranda July that traces the 30-year career of the American artist, filmmaker and writer through her short films, performances and installations.

FONDAZIONE PRADA

PARAVENTI

2023.10.25

FOLDING SCREENS FROM THE 17TH TO 21ST CENTURIES

 

The extensive exhibition set up in the spaces of Fondazione Prada, and curated by Nicholas Cullinan, investigates the history and interprets the meanings of folding screens.

EXHIBITION

SARAH LUCAS

2023.09.24

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

2023.09.22

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…