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Wolfgang Tillmans
Seven works: (i) paper wrapped II (ii) Cornel, Zurich (iii) Damon, shower, head up (iv) sportflecken (v) after party. (vi) Faltenwurf (broom stick) (vii) Olli's arm, wide
- Estimate
- $20,000 - 30,000
$53,340
Lot Details
Seven chromogenic prints.
Two prints 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) or the reverse (i, iii)
Five prints 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm) or the reverse (ii, iv, v, vi, vii)
Five prints 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm) or the reverse (ii, iv, v, vi, vii)
Each variously signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil on the verso. Two prints from an edition of 10 (i, ii); one print from an edition of 30 (iii); four prints from an edition of 3 (iv, v, vi, vii). Full cataloguing for each print visible in the condition report.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The photographs included in this lot are as follows:
(i) paper wrapped II, 2000
(ii) Cornel, Zurich, 1993
(iii) Damon, Shower, Head Up, 1995
(iv) sportflecken, 1996
(v) after party., 1992
(vi) Faltenwurf (broom stick), 1992
(vii) Olli's arm, wide, 1990
(i) paper wrapped II, 2000
(ii) Cornel, Zurich, 1993
(iii) Damon, Shower, Head Up, 1995
(iv) sportflecken, 1996
(v) after party., 1992
(vi) Faltenwurf (broom stick), 1992
(vii) Olli's arm, wide, 1990
Provenance
Literature
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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