SOUND IS LIQUID by Wolfgang Tillmans

現代美術界で重要な賞の一つである「ターナー賞」を2000年に受賞し、ロンドンとドイツを拠点として活動するドイツ人フォトグラファー、ヴォルフガング・ティルマンス(Wolfgang Tillmans)の作品集。2021年11月27日から2022年4月24日まで、オーストリアの「ウィーン・ルートヴィヒ財団近代美術館(mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien)」での展覧会に伴い刊行された。本展では、1990年代のポップカルチャー界において制作された初期の写真作品に加え、抽象的なイメージや、21世紀初頭のグローバル化・デジタル化された現実を写した高解像度写真、新型コロナウイルス感染症によるパンデミックの直前とその最中に撮った写真などを展示。加えて、2チャンネルビデオによるインスタレーション作品「Book for Architects」や、アルバム「Moon in Earthlight」がサウンド・ビデオインスタレーションとして紹介されている。本書には展覧会でのインスタレーションの写真記録、作品と併せて、作家の活動に関する詳細なエッセイを収録。過去の作品集と同様、作者本人によるデザインとなる。

Wolfgang Tillmans has been exploring since the early 1990s how we view our world and the social conditions in which we live. Guided by the self-critical question "What do I really see? What do I see, and what do I want to see? What is in the picture?” he devotes his work to people and bodies, to landscapes, architectures, objects, and celestial phenomena.

Wolfgang Tillmans. Sound Is Liquid features early photographs produced in the pop-culture milieu of the 1990s along with abstract images, high-resolution photographs of the globalized and digitalized reality of the early twenty-first century, and photos taken shortly before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The two-channel video installation Book for Architects will also be on view, as well as a number of recent music recordings and videos.

Wolfgang Tillmans’s artistic practice attributes central importance to the observation of people, their relationship to one another, and their connection to the things around them. These subjective relations and modes of perceiving bodies, images, materials, or surfaces are undergoing massive shifts in light of the current health crisis, calls for social distancing, and the relocation of our everyday life and interaction into virtual space.

Recent developments have exacerbated the mediatization of our everyday lives, which we have been witnessing for some time. We are experiencing a spatial restructuring and changes in the media landscape that also affect the status of photography and its relationship to materiality and visuality.

by Wolfgang Tillmans

REGULAR PRICE ¥6,050  (tax incl.)

softcover and booklet
248 pages
200 x 275 mm
color, black and white
2022

published by WALTHER KÖNIG

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