Wolfgang Tillmans: Tate Britain

But this misstep--a rare example of going a bridge too far--only fleetingly detracted from a show that offered numerous chains of fugitive diamonds sourced from the coal face of the everyday and that, in the process, performed a feat that art should pull off more regularly: making one feel better about being alive right now.

Martin Herbert is a London based writer and critic.

A writer and critic based in Whitstable, Kent, MARTIN HERBERT has written catalogue essays on contemporary artists such as Michael Raedecker (Ca' Zenobio, 49th Venice Biennale, 2001), Tim Stoner (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2001), and Shizuka Yokomizo (MACRO, Rome, 2002). He most recently co-authored, with Hazma Walker, Darren Almond (Kunsthalle Zurich, 2001), the first major publication on the British artist's work, and is currently researching the changing status and iconographic properties of artists' signatures. In his first contribution to Artforum, Herbert reviews Tate Britain's Wolfgang Tillmans survey. PHOTO; ROSALIND FURNESS

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