Book for architects exhibition at the metropolitan museum of art, new york, january. Wolfgang tillmans, maureen paley, london, 5 june 21 july 2019. Wolfgang tillmans on his book for architects uncube. Project muse book for architects by wolfgang tillmans. Two channel video installation in elements of architecture central pavilion, 14th architecture biennale venice, curated by rem koolhaas. Wolfgang tillmans on middle age and architecture art. Over a period of ten years, tillmans german, born 1968 photographed buildings in thirtyseven countries on five continents to produce book for architects. Called book for architects, the show is in fact a twoscreen video installation, showing shots of buildings and interiors tillmans has taken over the past ten years. One unexpected addition to rem koolhaas dissection of architecture in his elements exhibition in the venice architecture biennale, is a. Projected on perpendicular walls evoking facing pages in an open book, the piece successfully translates tillmanss idiosyncratic installation style. Book for architects, metropolitan museum of art, new york, 26 jan 05 jul 2015. Wolfgang tillmans is fascinated by the millions of individual decisions that shape the overall design of a city. After not being available for ten years, wolfgang tillmans decided to rescan the original photographs and make a 1. A conversation between rem koolhaas and wolfgang tillmans, exploring the relevance of architectural design to our.
Madalena guerra 2 23 wolfgang tillmans, untitled, 2009, from book for architects, 2014. Wolfgang tillmans book for architects the new yorker. Wolfgang tillmans, who came to prominence in the mid1990s with his riveting portraits of european club kids, has created this book for architects. Tillmans seeks to express the complexity, irrationality, madness, and beauty. Hear about architecture and its connection to our everyday lives. Book for architects shows architecture through the eyes of the artist. Conceived for the fourteenth international architecture exhibition commonly called the architecture biennale in venice in 2014, the project was reinstalled at the metropolitan museum of art in new york in early 2015, where it ran for ten months. Wolfgang tillmans, book for architects plate 083 wolfgang tillmans hear about architecture and its connection to our everyday lives wolfgang tillmans is fascinated by the millions of individual decisions that shape the overall design of a city. Wolfgang tillmans, 304 pages exhibition catalogue, edited by theodora vischer for the fondation beyeler, germanenglish, hatje cantz 2017.
Wolfgang tillmans book for architects the brooklyn rail. Tillmans has installed book for architects in a manner that places the viewer in the fold of a social experience. Wolfgang tillmans on his book for architects 1 23 wolfgang tillmans illustration. When german photographer wolfgang tillmans won the turner prize in 2000the. Although we now walk around with digital tablets, or smartphones, containing our reading material, books were initially mobile. Wolfgang tillmanss installation book for architects 2014 is on view at the metropolitan museum for the first time since its debut at the 2014 venice architecture biennale. Baxter st at ccny wolfgang tillmans book for architects. Julian rose on wolfgang tillmanss book for architects artforum. Still from wolfgang tillmanss book for architects, 2014, twochannel digital video, color, silent, approx.
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