How the world caught up with Wolfgang Tillmans

Tillmans may be criticised for photographing startlingly uninteresting moments – from weeds to watermelon stains – but in our age of image overload, we are all him now“Many artists try to predict what will look good forever,” Wolfgang Tillmans told the attentive audience at the preview for his show PCR, at the David Zwirner gallery in New York on Thursday. “It’s impossible. There is only the here and now.”
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