Refutes the photographer everything or nothing to define beauty
Considered one of the most influential photographers of the contemporary world, the German Wolfgang Tillmans expresses its reservations concerning the concept of beauty.
"Descreo it says it is a term used if at all; things or actions are beautiful or not, so blunt. That is pretty conservative, also strictly political, because to define what beautiful, beautiful, we tend to take only what is acceptable, desirable and what should be sought in life. "
Therefore prefers to continue working outside these parameters, because otherwise his work "would acquire a connotation discursive, while politics, to try to say what is acceptable, with which I disagree."
For example, Tillmans highlights how many people, including his mother, and how to take something in bad taste and frightful a photograph of his two men kissing on the mouth, where he is a picture of profound aesthetic and emotional content, " something of absolute beauty, from my eyes. "
Born in 1968, Tillmans came to Mexico to attend the opening of his exhibition at the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo (Paseo de la Reforma and Gandhi), which is the first time that his work is exhibited in a Latin American country.
The exhibition brings together various facets of the work of German artist, who uses conventional genres as portraiture, still life and the landscape to challenge the codes of representation that they imply, from a reading based on personal and emotional intensity the formats vary, making their presentations on site-specific installations.
It is "a kind of artist-curator-installer", as defined, and from this consideration is that he is personally responsible for assembling the pieces in places where exhibits.
The lack of boundaries between figuration and abstraction, the obsession to bring the three-dimensional picture plane, fidelity to the color and textures, the construction of narrative speeches in which each observer is constructing its own history, and simplicity in the picture are some of the most important features that can be seen in this hall, where the sample, which is entitled the name of the photographer, will end on May 25.
Via La Jornada
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