MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

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).

DESIGN

HARRY NURIEV

2022.10.05

Harry Nuriev in conversation with Paige Silveria. A point fo view with monochromatic schemes, a totally personal minimalism described in working with form, as the design transforms something from one form to another.

FROM THE MAGAZINE

CHLOE WISE

2022.10.04

Wise’s work explores advertising, fashion, multi national brands and the taboo, and, using humor, rethinks and analyses the role of female bodies within these systems, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

BALENCIAGA EYEWEAR

FADE TO GREY

2022.09.29

Effortless and contemporary, the way these Muses are wearing Balenciaga Rive Gauche eyewear: a new cool and clean retro-style with a hint of vintage quality.