Wolfgang Tillmans
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In his Concordeseries Tillmans documents sightings of this iconic image on the runways of Heathrow airport and in the skies around the West London hinterland – over suburban housing, railway sidings, parking lots and motorways. This distinctive symbol of progress and glamour, lone survivor of a more Utopian age recorded amidst the bleakness of the contemporary suburban landscape. Such is the equanimity of Tillmans’ observation that even these unprepossessing scenes take on an engaging dignity.
- Accession Number P7195/A
- Dimensions 32 X 22 CM
- Media 9 C-TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS
Glossary (2)
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Contemporary
Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.
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Landscape
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.
Past exhibitions
OBSERVADORES FOTÓGRAFOS DA CENA BRITÂNICA DESDE 1930 ATÉ HOJE
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2012
- Brazil, Sao Paulo, SESI
MADE IN BRITAIN
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2012
- Albania, Tirana, National Gallery
- Greece, Athens, Benaki Museum
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2011
- China, Suzhou Museum
- China, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
- China, Xian Museum
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2010
- China, Sichuan Provincial Museum
THE FUTURE DEMANDS YOUR PARTICIPATION
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2010
- China, Shanghai, Minsheng Art Gallery
OTHER TIMES CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART
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2004
- Czech Republic, Prague, City Art Gallery (Stone Bell House)
LANDSCAPE
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2002
- Slovenia, Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija
- Belgium, Brussels, La Botanique Centre Culturel De La Communate Francaise Wallonie-Bruxelles
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2001
- Brazil, Curitiba, Casa Andrade Muricy
- Brazil, Sao Paulo, Tomi Ohtake Foundation
- Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Museu De Arte Moderna
- Bulgaria, Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery
- France, Paris, Espace Elektra
- Spain, Madrid, Centro Cultural Del Conde Duque
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2000
- Italy, Rome, Galleria Nazionale D'arte Moderna
- Russia, St Peter And Paul Fortress
- Russia, Moscow, House Of Artists
- Germany, Weimar, ACC Gallery
