Jeff Wall
TABLEAUX PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHS
The Canadian artist Jeff Wall is one of the most significant image-makers of our time, and one of photography’s masters. Every single one of his images are prepared with the same care as if it were a theater piece developing in several acts.
Jeff Wall (born in 1946) is a modern classic. His pieces will be reference points when the history of art in the last few decades of the twentieth century is written. His iconic images captivate the audience by means of an unfolding and never fully explained or transparent story. As the artist states, “It’s you who write the script”. Hereby we are invited to imagine our own way into Wall’s highly well-composed pictures.
The exhibition included 35 of the artist’s most important works from the years 1996-2013 - presenting his famous light boxes as well as colour and black-and-white photographs. The exhibition was the result of a co-operation with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria.
PICTURES LIKE POEMS
Discover what inspires and motivates Jeff Wall. In connection to the artist’s solo show - Louisiana Channel talked to the him about selected works in the exhibition at Louisiana and his conception of art in general.
In the video you can among other things hear about how his pictures are intended to work like poems - where the meaning of the artwork has to come to you by means of what it makes you feel.
WE ARE ALL ACTORS
“Acting is inherent in being” according to Jeff Wall – and when he works with people while making his photographic works, Wall makes them repeat the actions in the same way, over and over again. In Louisiana Channel’s video you can see the artist in conversation with Belgian art historian Thierry De Duve – and learn more about how Wall works with people, places and motifs in his large-scale photographs.