Wolfgang Tillmans Catalogue: Tillmans, National Museum of Art, Osaka

Wolfgang Tillmans
ヴォルフガング・ティルマンス　Your Body is Yours
Tillmans
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Wolfgang Tillmans (1968-)

Wolfgang Tillmans is a photographer currently based in Berlin and London, who is active internationally. He gained attention in the early 1990s for his photographs capturing the everyday scenes of his surroundings, and became well-known for his features in magazines such as 'i-D' and 'Interview'. Tillmans' distinctive motifs include portraits of young people on the streets and close friends, as well as questions about contemporary themes such as sexuality and gender, revealing a mix of private and social elements. Since then, Tillmans' stance of capturing the spirit of the times through photography can be seen as unchanging.

His innovative installations, which strongly consider the exhibition space and freely display photographs of different sizes without frames, as if the images are floating, had a great impact.

In recent years, Tillmans, who published the photo book 'Neue Welt' (New World), has revealed a collection of images of events occurring around the world and scenes captured by his gaze during his travels, attempting to show his views on various events unfolding on this planet, such as political and economic issues and technological advancements, and has shown new developments.

Thus, in 2000, he won the Turner Prize, one of the most important awards in the contemporary art world, and this year he was also awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award, which is given to photographers who have achieved great accomplishments. Tillmans continues to exert a great influence as a frontrunner in contemporary photographic expression.

This exhibition is a long-awaited solo exhibition, the first in a Japanese museum in 11 years, and will be held exclusively at this museum. In the exhibition space designed by Tillmans himself, a large number of new and recent photographic works, including those being shown for the first time in Japan, and video installations such as 《Book for Architects》, which was presented at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition last year and received a great response, will reveal the true form of the society in which we live, as seen by Tillmans, while being conscious of contemporaneity.

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