Wolfgang Tillmans - Evening & Day Editions London Thursday, January 23, 2025 | Phillips
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    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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Tate Modern Edition #29

2016
Unique photocopy print in colours, on lightweight wove paper, with full margins.
I. 41 x 29.3 cm (16 1/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
S. 42.2 x 29.7 cm (16 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.)

Signed, dated and numbered 'TM029' in pencil on the reverse, from the edition of 172 unique variants, published by Tate, London, on the occasion of the opening of Tate Modern's Switch House extension, framed.

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 23 - 24 January 2025