Curated by Theodora Vischer and Jeff Wall

Continuing interest in Jeff Wall’s art-historically savvy fusion of classical painterly ambition with Baudelairian social critique and digitally orchestrated cinematic style is well-nigh assured. But this exhibition of the celebrated Canadian photographer’s work—the most comprehensive to date—should definitively illuminate the extent of his influence. Focusing on Wall’s signature large-format photographic light boxes, as well as on more recent black-and-white prints, it includes some seventy works made since 1978. The simultaneous publication of a catalogue raisonné, edited by Vischer, the Schaulager’s director, with texts by her and art historian Jean-François Chevrier, completes this panoramic view of the artist.

Travels to Tate Modern, London, Oct. 21, 2005–Jan. 8, 2006.

— Michael Wilson