Presenting recent developments in Wolfgang Tillmans’s portraiture and still lifes, Wolfgang Tillmans: DZHK Book 2018 features a broad selection of new and recent works that respond to their surroundings while at the same time embodying a self-contained environment. Few artists have shaped the scope of contemporary art and influenced a younger generation more than Wolfgang Tillmans. Since the early 1990s, his works have epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimac

When you eat vegetables, it's the world's history that you swallow. In a single vegetable, one encounters great history and the memory of each of us: conquests, the spice route, the opening of sea passages, trade between empires, economics, diplomacy and politics mixed with stories of mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, kitchens and pantries full of flavours. Talking about vegetables therefore means going in search of a territory, of a culture, it means findin

Joachim Schmidt (Balingen, 1955), paradoxically known as “the photographer who takes no photographs”, has worked with photography since the early 1980s without producing any images of his own. Asserted in 1989 on the 150th anniversary of the invention of this medium, the principle of taking no new photographs until use has been made of those already existing is one to which he still adheres. In the present-day civilization of images characterized by an ever-greater prolife

The drawings of the book L'Architettura degli Alberi by Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi represent an unsurpassed tool for the design of green. Fruit of a study lasted over twenty years, the book contains the treatment of 212 arboreal species, drawn in scale 1:100, with and without foliage, accompanied by the diagrams of the projections of shadows during the hours of the day and during the seasons, tables of seasonal colour variation of the foliage a

In its great morphological, economic and cultural complexity, Italy is undergoing great changes. Exploitation of the territory, urbanization, depopulation, gentrification, sustainability and new models of economic development are complex processes underway and already the subject of study and investigation. The pandemic on the one hand has accelerated these macro trends, on the other hand has introduced new needs and brought to light critical issues to which it is still difficult to give a precise ide