Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Tate Modern

A review of Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Tate Modern

Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at the Tate Modern

I wanted to go to this exhibition as this artist is a photographer who produces wide ranging works using a variety of media besides still photographs – for example video and digital slide projections and recorded music – all of which I was interested in for my arts project.

He is also very political. The work starts from 2013 with the invasion of Iraq and anti-war demonstrations and this provides the inspiration for much of the exhibition.

The exhibition was on at the Tate Modern in the first half of 2016.

Wolfgang Tillmans is a German artist who has spent many years living and working in the UK although he is currently based in Berlin.

I particularly focused on the musical and video aspects of the exhibition. In one room there are acoustic baffles mounted onto walls and ceiling.. There is a huge sound system that blasts out the music from the band Colourbox who never performed live, giving the audience the opportunity to experience the music almost as if it was loud.. You are encouraged to sit in silence in the room absorbed in the sound.

In another room Tillman dances to the beat of his bare feet synchronising the music with his dancing.

I liked the complete range of images and sounds that you are exposed to in this exhibition. It encourages you to look at the detail of the everyday and the mundane that so often we don't pay attention to- the beauty and grotesque side by side. Tillman shows us the beautiful pink insides of a lobster shell but also a fly feeding on the flesh, a knee, plants growing out of a piece of pavement, a boy looking at his phone, a close up of a car headlight, an LA city scene, an airport corridor, a filthy drainpipe in Buenos Aires.

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1 Comments

  • Luke Taylor

    On 26 June 2017, 11:10 Luke Taylor Contributor commented:

    Wow...I never knew who he was until you mentioned him. Great review!

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