His works engage us with empathy. His series of photos on plants influenced me to create a series of dead flower image to reflect the thinking of time and being. He would able to use different sizes, all kinds of trivial, reachable photos can be used in the absence of logical combination of our current flood of network information. You can say do not understand Tillmans works, it can be said that he expressed too straightforward, too superficial.
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Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. Tate Modern presents an exhibition concentrating on his production across different media since 2003. First rising to prominence in the 1990s for his photographs of everyday life and contemporary culture, Tillmans has gone on to work in an ever greater variety of media and has taken an increasingly innovative approach to staging exhibitions. Tate Modern brings this variety to the fore, offering a new focus on his photographs, video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music.
Social and political themes form a rich vein throughout Tillmans’s work. The destabilization of the world has arisen as a recurring concern for the artist since 2003, an important year when he felt the world changed with the invasion of Iraq and anti-war demonstrations. In 2017, at a moment when the subject of truth and fake news is at the heart of political discourse, Tillmans presents a new configuration of his tabletop installation truth study center 2005-ongoing. This ongoing project uses an assembly of printed matter from pamphlets to newspaper cuttings to his own works on paper to highlight Tillmans’s continued interest in word events and how they are communicated in the media.
Tillmans出生于德国，但在二十年前便迁至伦敦居住，这几年他游走各地，作品缤纷多样，曾经触及的议题包括性、同志、爱滋等政治性和社会性极强的作品，并且从不局限，甚至肆意转化，而肖像类作品也自始至终贯穿其创作生涯。有时他会觉得关于肖像他已经没什么可以贡献的了，但是过上一两年，他对人又会产生新的兴趣。拍摄肖像对他来讲，是一种很直接的与人交流的方式。他说，他的拍摄对象是“那些我爱着的，想去拥抱的人”。这些人里面有他的伴侣德国艺术家Jochen Klein（已故）, 有他身边的朋友，还有让他感到好奇和着迷的公众人物。