Wolfgang Tillmans - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, Hong Kong Hong Kong Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Phillips
  • "The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That’s really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them."

    — Wolfgang Tillmans

     

    The artist discusses their practice at solo show Wolfgang Tillmans: Rebuilding the Future that the present work is a part of
     

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    • Provenance

      David Zwirner, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Cologne, Galerie Buchholz, Wolfgang Tillmans: Fest, 2 February - 7 April 2018 (another example exhibited)
      Hong Kong, David Zwirner, Wolfgang Tillmans, 26 March - 12 May 2018, p. 62 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
      Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Wolfgang Tillmans: Rebuilding the Future, 26 October 2018 - 17 February 2019, p. 166 (another example exhitbited and illustrated)

    • Artist Biography

      Wolfgang Tillmans

      German • 1968

      Since 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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Fire Island III

signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Fire Island III" ph 09/2017 pr wt 05/2018 5/10 +1 Wolfgang Tillmans' on the reverse
inkjet print on paper
work 40.6 x 30.5 cm. (15 7/8 x 12 in.)
frame 44.5 x 34.3 cm. (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.)

Executed in 2017 and printed in 2018, this work is number 5 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.

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€8,000-10,300
$9,000-11,500

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, Hong Kong

27 August - 5 September 2024