Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The much awaited major retrospective of the deep searching emotional worlds of Gillian Wearing is about to open this March 20th, 2013, in Munich. Her works have been collected from owners all over the world just for this show. I decided to put together an introduction to this celebrated photographer's work and set myself the target of posting this by the end of this week. Well, remarkably I happened to visit the Regen Projects to see another photographer's work and to my surprise, there on the bookcase, was a monograph on Gillian Wearer's life's work! I discovered that they had represented her work in the USA for many years! So I bought the book and that is my reward for my investigations. I am hoping that some folk in Europe will be able to visit the museum in Munich and share their impressions with us! Michael and Jerome, we're hoping each of you might take on the challenge!
In her photographs, many staged, she searches underneath the masks we wear to retain our privacy using any technique she can imagine. This turns British ideas of privacy up on its head as she persists in probing often beyond the boundaries of usual customary respect for people's secrets.
The exhibition is set at Pinakothek der Moderne in the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, in cooperation with Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. The photos will be on view July 7th 2013.
If you want the truth, you might to to Capa Capa, Henri Bresson or the like. You could even choose to photograph what's of interest from enough angles and that will be the truth.
Gillian Wearing: Self Portrait at 17 Years Old
2003 Framed c-type print,
115,5 x 92 cm
Courtesy Maureen Paley, London,
Regen Projects, Los Angeles and
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
In the 1990's, Gillian Wearing, a U.K. photographer, (born in Birmingham, U.K., 1963), was already getting strangers in the street to hold up sheets of paper in which they expressed their inner thoughts, fears, regrets or other secrets.
Gillian Wearing: I'm Desperate
“From Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and
Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say”
For her biography, read this.
In her photographs, many staged, she searches underneath the masks we wear to retain our privacy using any technique she can imagine. This turns British ideas of privacy up on its head as she persists in probing often beyond the boundaries of usual customary respect for people's secrets.
The exhibition is set at Pinakothek der Moderne in the Museum Brandhorst, Munich, in cooperation with Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. The photos will be on view July 7th 2013.
If you want the truth, you might to to Capa Capa, Henri Bresson or the like. You could even choose to photograph what's of interest from enough angles and that will be the truth.
Gillian Wearing: Self Portrait at 17 Years Old
2003 Framed c-type print,
115,5 x 92 cm
Courtesy Maureen Paley, London,
Regen Projects, Los Angeles and
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
In the 1990's, Gillian Wearing, a U.K. photographer, (born in Birmingham, U.K., 1963), was already getting strangers in the street to hold up sheets of paper in which they expressed their inner thoughts, fears, regrets or other secrets.
Gillian Wearing: I'm Desperate
“From Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and
Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say”
For her biography, read this.