WOLFGANG TILLMANS AT GALERIE BUCHHOLZ
Galerie Buchholz presented a 1:1 reconstruction of the original exhibition space of Wolfgang Tillmans’ first gallery exhibition, which took place at Buchholz & Buchholz in Cologne in January 1993. The original installation consisted of more than 60 unframed c-prints, photocopies and magazine pages.
What made this installation so important was“ the radical thinking” behind it. No one at that time would have thought to hang magazine pages alongside original photographs and then leave the photographs unframed. The use of different materials and means of reproduction within one exhibition was, as Tillmans said:“ To show the equivalents between a hand-printed fine photographic print that I made with my own hands, and a magazine page that has been printed for 30,000 copies, but that had been laid out and designed by me.”
The 1993 exhibition established Tillmans’ within the fine-art world, elevating him from magazine to gallery photographer yet this transition was predominantly in part to the recession and the changing in spending habits.
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PIERRE JOSEPH AT AIR DE PARIS
French artist Pierre Joseph was one of the most significant artists of the 90’ s who enacted little narrative scenarios with living people. His works appear as living sculptures moving or standing but not talking, and are inspired by fairy tales, role plays, advertising or contemporary life.
Air de Paris presented works from the series‘ Characters to Be Reactivated.’( 1991-95), with a performance in which different characters, from policemen to sex workers, took over the gallery
Pierre’ s work helped to the art world to define the meaning of‘ relational aesthetics’ 127