Wolfgang Tillmans - Your Body is Yours

From an editorial and graphic design perspective, the catalogue for Wolfgang Tillmans’s exhibition Your Body Is Yours (Osaka: National Museum of Art, July 25–September 23, 2015) is undeniably a meticulously crafted object. Housed in a cardboard slipcase held together by a thick rubber band, it contains two volumes: a slim booklet with the texts, and a more substantial one with the images. The text volume includes all the elements conventionally found in this type of publication, namely the captions and descriptions of the exhibited works, the artist’s bio-bibliographical information, and a text by the museum’s curator and exhibition curator, Yuka Uematsu (“The Multiplicity of Meaning in the Work of Wolfgang Tillmans,” pp. 1–15). The latter mainly discusses the artist's recent works, such as the book Neue Welt (2012), the series Sendeschluss/End of Broadcast (2014) made from photographs of television screens that no longer emit a signal, or the slideshow Book for Architects projected during the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Not a word, however, on the links maintained between the artist and Japan, such as the impact of his works on Japanese photographers since the 1990s and the resounding success of his major exhibition Freischwimmer at the Opera City gallery in Tokyo in 2004, or on the constant support of the Wako Works of Art gallery in Tokyo which publishes some of Wolfgang Tillmans' books, the Wako Books (five titles published to date). Uematsu Yuka offers a broad overview of Wolfgang Tillmans' work and the modes of image presentation he has experimented with for nearly twenty years, moving seamlessly between exhibition and publication, and vice versa. The parallel between layout and spatial arrangement is made explicit in the catalogue's extensive collection of images. This collection blends exhibition views, images of the model used to design the Osaka exhibition, reproductions of artworks, and original compositions created from overlapping photographs. These latter compositions evoke windows opened simultaneously in a search engine or on a computer desktop, reflecting the artist's recent exploration of the fluid transitions between his photographic exhibitions and printed publications (books and magazines), now extended to digital media

This book is a collection of works published at the exhibition held at the National Museum of Art in Japan in 2015.
Comes with a separate volume "Multilayeredness in the Works of Wolfgang Tillmans" (Yuka Uematsu), styrofoam, paraffin paper, and a rubber band.

Publisher: The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Publication Year: 2015
Dimensions: 29 x 22cm
Language: jpn/eng
Pages: Book1: 128 pages, Book 2: 56 pages
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good (The Rubber (OBI) band is missing: see 2nd picture for example of rubber band)