Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
(i) Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Wolfgang Tillmans, May 20, 2006 - May 25, 2008, cover and p. 152 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
(ii) New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom From The Known, February 26 - May 29, 2006 (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Wolfgang Tillmans, May 20, 2006 - May 25, 2008 (another example exhibited)
Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Wolfgang Tillmans; Bali, February 16 - May 6, 2007 (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery, Wolfgang Tillmans, June 26 - September 19, 2010, pp. 97, 119 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
(ii) Wolfgang Tillmans, Wolfgang Tillmans: Wako Book 3, Tokyo, 2004, p. 55 (illustrated)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Wolfgang Tillmans: truth study center, Cologne: Taschen, 2005, n.p.
Lighter, exh. cat., Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2008, p. 229 (illustrated)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Dominic Eichler, Wolfgang Tillmans: Abstract Pictures, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015, pl. 207 (illustrated)
(iii) Gil Blank, "Gil Blank and Wolfgang Tillmans in Conversation," Influence, issue 2, 2004, p. 111 (illustrated)
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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