{"id":42198,"date":"2016-12-08T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=42198"},"modified":"2016-12-08T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:27:48","slug":"wolfgang-tillmans-visual-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/wolfgang-tillmans-visual-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfgang Tillmans stellt neues visuelles Album vor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Fragile \/ Wolfgang Tillmans - Visual Album - \u2018That\u2019s Desire \/ Here We Are EP\u2019\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/--14I6ajk5c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>Visual albums are one of this year&#8217;s hottest trends. First came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=Beyonc%C3%A9&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> with &#8220;Lemonade&#8221;, followed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=Frank+Ocean&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Ocean<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Endless&#8221;, the precursor to his\u00a0long-awaited LP &#8220;Blonde&#8221;<em>.<\/em>\u00a0Now, photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=wolfgang+tillmans&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfgang Tillmans<\/a> enters\u00a0the fray with &#8220;Fragile&#8221;<em>.\u00a0<\/em>It is a companion piece to his latest EP &#8220;That&#8217;s Desire\/Here We Are&#8221; and stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=Hari+Nef&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Hari Nef<\/a>, Karis Wilde and Ash B. Joining the German artist&#8217;s\u00a0four new tracks\u00a0is his\u00a0Suicide-esque demo &#8220;Fast Lane&#8221; from 1986 and &#8220;Anderes Osterlied&#8221; by theologian Kurt Marti. Combined, the visual album sees Tillmans\u00a0expanding his artistic language with\u00a0performance art, hip-hop and a commitment to spontaneity.<br \/>\n&#8220;Fragile&#8221;<em>\u00a0<\/em>premiered this week at The Maureen Paley Gallery in London, but it is also available to stream\u00a0on Youtube. Before you watch, here is everything you need to know about the project.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Wolfgang Tillmans Was Inspired By\u00a0Post-Brexit\/Pre-Trump Era<\/h3>\n<p>Tillmans introduced the songs by stating the conditions in which they were made: &#8220;Four songs have been written and recorded this summer in Fire Island and New York, in a time now marked as &#8216;post-Brexit \/ pre-Trump&#8221;. Thus, &#8220;I&#8217;m So N\u00e4ive&#8221; sees the artist\u00a0lamenting the state of the world:<br \/>\n<em>25 years ago I couldn&#8217;t have thought this would happen<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In disbelief I stand despaired<\/em><br \/>\n<em> How did we get into this shit?<\/em><br \/>\nNevertheless, the album is not only about despair:\u00a0&#8220;I wanted the overall feel of the EP to be reflecting the desire to carry on and live our lives in a quest for personal happiness, whatever the circumstances are. We need to protest and campaign, but this shouldn&#8217;t stop us from reaffirming love and life, here and now.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNt1zEbjBuq\/?taken-by=wolfgang_tillmans&#038;hl=en\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNt1zEbjBuq\/?taken-by=wolfgang_tillmans&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Collaborative Performances Were All Improvised<\/h3>\n<p>All the guests involved in the dancing had never heard the music before, so their reactions to the music are all authentic responses. More impressively, Ash B free-styled her scene-stealing guest verse on &#8220;That&#8217;s Desire&#8221;. Using only a blank room with light compositions reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=James+Turrell&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">James Turrell<\/a>, this approach makes the visual album feel more direct and engaging, recalling his unadorned photography in the Nineties Berlin club scene.<br \/>\nAs Wolfgang Tillmans says of this\u00a0technique: &#8220;I\u2019m grateful for the trust and openness each dancer, actor, performer brought to this project &#8211; giving everything in a white blank space to the sound of a boombox.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNtzEwOjfkz\/?taken-by=wolfgang_tillmans&#038;hl=en\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BNtzEwOjfkz\/?taken-by=wolfgang_tillmans&amp;hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>It Wasn&#8217;t Initially Intended As A Visual Album<\/h3>\n<p>The initial plan was to accompany each song with an individual video. Yet, the decision to make a visual album just made sense when each clip\u00a0was seen\u00a0together. Wolfgang Tillmans wrote of the decision that &#8220;it became clear, that what was planned to be cut into six individual videos, should not be separated, but should remain as a consecutive sequence of six different moods.&#8221; By putting all six performances together, Tillmans and his editor\u00a0Michael Amstad have created a piece that sustains a certain feeling\u00a0of rebellion and\u00a0sexual power in the face of an uncertain future.<br \/>\nThis is his second release of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/2016\/07\/07\/wolfgang-tillmans-releases-his-first-ep\/\">after the release of\u201c2016 \/ 1986\u201d \u00a0earlier this year.\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visual artist is taking his music projects to new heights with Hari Nef<\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":42223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[7017,4204,5419,3129,7018,7019,826],"class_list":["post-42198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-ash-b","tag-beyonce","tag-frank-ocean","tag-hari-nef","tag-karis-wilde","tag-michael-amstad","tag-wolfgang-tillmans"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wolfgang Tillmans Debuts New Visual Album Starring Hari Nef<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wolfgang Tillmans joins Beyonc\u00e9 and Frank Ocean as the latest artist to launch a visual album with his latest release Fragile, starring Hari Nef.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/wolfgang-tillmans-visual-album\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wolfgang Tillmans Debuts New Visual Album Starring Hari Nef\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wolfgang Tillmans joins Beyonc\u00e9 and Frank Ocean as the latest artist to launch a visual album with his latest release Fragile, starring Hari Nef.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/wolfgang-tillmans-visual-album\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-08T14:27:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Redmond Bacon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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