Artist, satirist, free spirit: sculptor Jacques Tilly (61) gets his first large museum retrospective. From Sunday, the city museum in Düsseldorf shows almost 500 exhibits.
On every Monday, pictures of his provocative works of art go around the world: Putin in a Ukrainian tub full of blood, Donald Trump as a defiant baby. The sharpness and accuracy of the fool’s spot from Düsseldorf bears its name.
But the show not only shows the 42-year creative time for the carnival. The creator of the world -famous motto wages gives an insight into his childhood in a liberal parents’ house where he was promoted early and the parents quickly recognized: “The boy wants to paint.”
A beetle, painted by Jacques Tilly at the age of three or four years old, became a company logo of his father, a photographer. “We called ourselves the annoyance at the time,” said Tilly. With his material consumption, he probably drove his art school into bankruptcy.
Kohl is the motive of his first car
In 1983 Tilly entered the wagon building hall in Düsseldorf for the first time, in which the theme wages for the carnival were built. “Helmut Kohl had just become a chancellor,” recalls the 61-year-old. Kohl became the motif of his first car: the chancellor lies with sunglasses in a couch, while the problems pile up behind him.
However, his first work was lost: “The design was stolen, very annoying,” says Tilly, who from then on the powerful trees with his paper mache plastic.
In 1994 Chancellor Kohl even obtained an injunction against one of his designs: “There came mail from Bonn,” recalls Tilly. He had portrayed the “Oberindianer” with a powerful belly and tiny gender. “He didn’t like that.”
The trainer had to go to the garden center at the last minute to buy green stuff and to put a fig leaf between his legs, which then, “of course”, overturned when the Rosenmontagszug was approaching, as Tilly reports.
Again and again censorship attempts
The exhibition represented impressive black and white images of an almost forgotten campaign from 1990 with the new forum in the GDR: Tilly there with a motto and with him the Stalinism in the last days of the SED state Grabe.
Again and again Tilly and his team were exposed to censorship attempts, cars had to be covered until in 2000 they decided to build the motto wages under the highest secrecy and only present them to the world on Rosenmontag – too short -term for the mills of the judiciary. “There has been peace since then.”
Backing of the Düsseldorf fool
He praises that his cars repeatedly achieved this global effect that the Düsseldorf fools gave him. “Without that, that would not be possible in this hardness.” Putin bathing in blood is the largest sculpture in the show. It had to be broken down into several parts and compiled on the spot.
For a few years, he will annoy the mighty team with his ten -member team before he will devote himself to the many unread books in his library, Tilly promises. At the moment he is still working a lot, not only in the weeks before the street carnival: “My vacation looks like I sit and draw on the beach.”
The show can be seen until August 10th.
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