Tilman Peschel studied by Prof. Jürgen Klauke at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne). His work has been shown in national and international exhibitions. An artist book was published by Darling Publications for the occasion of the exhibition. The book was edited within the Villa Aurora artist in residence grant, 2005.
Hollywood is cool, sexy, glamourous, rich, arrogant, extroverted and in love with itself. Hollywood is a factory producing dreams, illusions and aspirations. The mass produced images from California never fail to generate seductive emotions and promises, in spite of their all too obvious fictional quality.
Showtime deals with the power of images. In an increasingly visually oriented world, the function of images as purely retinal aesthetics on one hand and images as role models on the other hand is becoming blurred. Today, images dictate how we design our environment, how we look and act. They influence our relation to authenticity, to collective and subjective identity. Peschel immerses himself in the mechanisms of this cultural industry, in order to achieve an analytic and humorous distance to its products by means ...