Experimental photographer, social commentator, musician, writer. “Which Wolfgang do I prefer?” This has been the question on the mind of the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, as he has spent the three few weeks installing much of his life’s work for his first ever New York museum survey. Throughout the process, it’s been bracing to realise that he might have already had many of his “greatest hits”, he jokes.
The exhibition, Wolfgang Tillmans: To Look Without Fear, spans the sixth floor of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and displays a staggering 417 pieces from over 30 years of his career.