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).

EXHIBITION

SARAH LUCAS

2023.09.25

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…

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.