Wolfgang Tillmans

Jop van Bennekom

Gert Jonkers

Celebrating Butt magazine's fifth anniversary, this book is a selection of the interviews and photos that have appeared in Butt so far. This anthology also finally makes a lot of material from the now rare, earlier issues of Butt available again. For your (in)convenience, the timeline in the book runs backwards, from the here and now all the way back to the summer of 2001, when the first issue of Butt landed with a bang.

Edition en langue anglaise

Butt Book

"Freedom From The Known" is the first book to focus entirely on Wolfgang Tillmans's abstract photographs, exploring the presence abstraction has had within his figurative and representational work. It is published on the occasion of the artist's first major solo exhibition for an American museum--curated by Bob Nickas, who contributes an essay here--which opened at P.S.1 in Long Island City, New York, in the spring of 2006. Of the 25 pieces here, 24 were produced specifically for this project and had never been seen before the exhibition. Most of are "cameraless" pictures, made by the direct manipulation of light on paper, rather than on a negative. At the exhibition, each photograph was presented in a frame, which marked a departure for the artist, who pioneered installation with tape and pins. But he was right: Frames gave these elusive, transitory, abstract images coherence as objects in space, as well as both buoyancy and weight. They were accompanied by a group of figurative photographs from the 1990s series "Empire," which made the shift from figure to abstraction by being passed through a photocopy or fax machine, then scanned to the highest possible resolution, turned into large-scale C-prints and framed. A selection of earlier photographs provides a context for Tillmans's passage from figurative and representational imagery to abstraction. Taken together, these more conceptual works reveal the self-reflective impulse underpinning choices of media and topic throughout his work.

Tracey Moffatt

Elizabeth Peyton

Artwork by Elizabeth Peyton, Tracey Moffatt.

Parkett #53

Beatrix Ruf

Life as Wolfgang sees it: Tillmans's latest project sets its sights on the world Over the period of more than two decades, Wolfgang Tillmans has explored the medium of photo-imaging with greater range than any other artist of his generation. From snapshots of his friends to abstract images made in a darkroom without a camera or works made with a photocopier, he has pushed the photographic process to its outer limits in myriad ways. For this collection of photos, his fourth book with TASCHEN, Tillmans turned away from the self-reflexive exploration of the photography medium that had occupied him for several years by focusing his lens on the outside world—from London and Nottingham to Tierra del Fuego, Tasmania, Saudi Arabia, and Papua New Guinea. He describes this new phase simply as “trying out what the camera can do for me, what I can do for it.” The result is a powerful and singular view of life today in diverse parts of the world, seen from many angles. Says Tillmans, “My travels are aimless as such, not looking for predetermined results, but hoping to find subject matter that in some way or other speaks about the time I'm in.” The book features a conversation between the artist and Beatrix Ruf, director of Kunsthalle Zurich. Text in English, French, and German

Neue Welt

An anthology of the smart, literate gay magazine that also manages to be very fun and very dirty. In this meaty package, BUTT editors Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom select the best images and interviews from more than a decade in print, including sexy pictures and candid interviews with such spectacular men as Gore Vidal, François Sagat, ...

Das Beste Aus Der Zeitschrift BUTT, Von 2001 Bis Heute

Forever Butt

Louise Bourgeois

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Fiona Tan

Paul Schrader

Francesco Clemente

Chris Burden

Luigi Ontani

Or A Splendid Readiness For Death

Saint Sebastian

Wolfgang Tillmans : Utoquai

Wolfgang Tillmans: Your Body is Yours is published on the occasion of Tillmans's exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, his first solo exhibition at a Japanese museum in eleven years. Housed in a display space designed by the artist himself, the exhibition includes new works appearing in Japan for the first time, numerous photographic works from recent years, and a video installation titled Books for Architects, consisting of two projections, which caused a sensation when it was shown at the the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition last year. While striving to remain contemporary, Tillmans's work presents us with the reality of the society we live in.

Borufugangu tirumansu yua bodī izu yuāzu

About one year ago, Wolfgang Tillmans was prompted by his own curiosity to visit Fruit Logistica in Berlin, the most important convention for the international fruit trade.'I was left open-mouthed by the crazy displays and the variety and complexity of th

Fespa Digital/Fruit Logistica

In his new book, celebrated artist and Turner Prize-winner Wolfgang Tillmans samples and mixes images to achieve a new way of exploring the visible world. Manual presents all of his new work and archival material from the last five years, providing a unique overview of his artistic development and creating the densest and most intensive presentation of Tillmans oeuvre ever published.

Manual

Concorde

Sound is Liquid

Catalogue includes essays by Michael Bracewell and Josef Strau, and an interview with the artist by the curators, Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

David Deitcher

Overzicht in woord en beeld van het werk van de Duitse fotograaf.

Burg

Artist File

his photographs have captured the easy informality of a young, fashion-conscious generation,- Mark Irving, The Independent~I don't believe in coincidence and don't think I have a snapshot in my oeuvre. That's different to saying that I might work very quickly, on the spur of the moment. But my work has never ended with just taking the photograph. It is a material process, to do with making a thing. I apply my mind and craft to shaping that thing into what I want it to look like. Maybe all my work is about when does something gather critical mass so that it is recognisable. When is something nothing and when does it become something?--Wolfgang Tillmans

View from Above

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans: If one thing matters, everything matters at Tate Britain 6 June - 5 September 2003"--Colophon.

If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters

Presenting recent developments in Wolfgang Tillmans's portraiture and still lifes, Wolfgang Tillmans: DZHK Book 2018 features a broad selection of new and recent works that respond to their surroundings while at the same time embodying a self-contained environment. Few artists have shaped the scope of contemporary art and influenced a younger generation more than Wolfgang Tillmans. Since the early 1990s, his works have epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional ways of approaching the medium, and his practice continues to address the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world. Published on the occasion of Tillmans's exhibition at David Zwirner in Hong Kong in 2018, this fully bilingual catalogue juxtaposes pictures of intimacy and friendship with views and angles of the world at large. An aerial view of the Sahara desert displays almost infinite detail while being monochromatic and near-abstract in appearance. In line with Tillmans's interest in exhibitions as amplifiers of a particular, underlying perspective, each of the works engages in an intricate system of relationships between its aesthetic elements, subject, and institutional setting. Seen together, they implicate the viewer as an active part of the dialogue. The 2016 interview with author Allie Biswas of The Brooklyn Rail has been edited and expanded by the artist for this catalogue.

Daniel Birnbaum

Julie Ault

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Joachim Jäger

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin).

Over the past few years, abstraction has gained considerable importance in the multifaceted oeuvre of Turner Prize-recipient Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968 in Remscheid). Following Blushes, the monumental Freischwimmer series, and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series (starting in 2005) is the most significant--treat the photograph no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object. Tillmans's paper drop photographs feature the actual prints in almost geometrical compositions that become practically tangible.Constantly oscillating between photograph and object, these most recent works are assembled by Wolfgang Tillmans for the first time in this new book. Unprecedented in this publication is an extensive section of installation views, taken by Tillmans himself, thus enabling the reader to directly experience his visual cosmos as it was presented in recent exhibitions, including his last retrospective, seen at various venues in the United States. Exhibition schedule: Hamburger Bahnhof--Museum für Gegenwart--Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March 21-August 24, 2008

erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin ; publ. in conjunction with the exhibition [Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter ... March 21 - August 24, 2008]

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