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Wolfgang Tillmans
On the verge of visibility
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- £5,000 - 7,000♠
£10,625
Lot Details
c-print
signed, incorrectly titled, numbered and dated 'Wolfgang Tillmans "on the verge of invisibility" pl 2 97 printed 1 98 7/10 + 1' on the reverse
image 39.1 x 25.2 cm (15 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
sheet 40.5 x 30.2 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
sheet 40.5 x 30.2 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1997 and printed in 1998, this work is number 7 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
German | 1968Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium. Challenging the indexical nature traditionally associated with photography, his abstract and representational photographic bodies of work each in their own way put forward the notion of the photograph as object—rather than as a record of reality. While achieving his breakthrough with portraits and lifestyle photographs, documenting celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture, since the turn of the millennium the German photographer has notably created abstract work such as the Freischwimmer series, which is made in the darkroom without a camera.Seamlessly integrating genres, subject matters, techniques and exhibition strategies, Tillmans is known for photographs that pair playfulness and intimacy with a persistent questioning of dominant value and hierarchy structures of our image-saturated world. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer to receive the prestigious Turner Prize.
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