The Arts Institute of Bournemouth Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004
Exhibited
Hakone, Pola Museum of Art, From Bonnard to Tillmans and Contemporary Artists, 28 January-2 July 2023 (another example exhibited) Tokyo, Espace Louis Vuitton, Wolfgang Tillmans: Moments of Life, 2 February-11 June 2023 (another variant exhibited)
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.
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Wolfgang Tillmans 'Bourne Estate' 2001 7/10 +1' on the reverse c-print, in artist's frame image 27 x 40.6 cm (10 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.) sheet 31 x 40.6 cm (12 1/4 x 15 7/8 in.) artist's frame 34 x 44 cm (13 3/8 x 17 3/8 in.) Executed in 2001, this work is number 7 from an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof.
