Wolfgang Tillmans - HEATWAVE: Online Auction London Wednesday, July 17, 2019 | Phillips

HEATWAVE: Online Auction

Online Auction 17 - 26 July 2019

  • Description

    Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.

  • Provenance

    Tate Britain, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

  • 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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Wolfgang Tillmans

Mohn

signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'Mohn 1998 edition for HIV i-Base Wolfgang Tillmans 7/30' on the reverse
c-print
43.5 x 55.5 cm (17 1/8 x 21 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1998, this work is number 7 from an edition of 30.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 ♠

Sold for £13,750

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HEATWAVE: Online Auction

Online Auction 17 - 26 July 2019