Wolfgang Tillmans - Contemporary Art Part II New York Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Andrea Rosen, New York; Private Collection

  • Literature

    B. Tiemschneider, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans, Köln 1995, n.p (all 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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9 works: i) Choir, 1993; ii) Corinne on Glaucester Place, 1993; iii) Lutz & Alex holding each other, 1992; iv) Hong Kong TV Reporter, 1993; v) Lutz, Alex, Suzanne and Christoph on beach, 1993; vi) Operating Theater I, 1994; vii) Mike Pickering, 1993; vii) Cornel, Zurich, 1993; ix) Joy Ray, 1990

C-prints.
Each 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm).
i) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Choir, Ph. June 93, Print June 93, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of three on the reverse; ii) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Corinne on Glaucester Place, Ph. 6.3.93, Print April 94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; iii) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Lutz & Alex holding each other, Ph. 6.3.93, Print April 94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; iv) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Hong Kong TV Reporter, Ph. 8.92, Print 7.94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; v) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Lutz, Alex, Suzanne and Christoph on beach, Ph. 8.9, Print 7.94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; vi) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Operating Theater I, Ph. March 93, Print April 94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; vii) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Mike Pickering, Ph. 3.93, Print 6.94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; viii) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Cornel, Zurich, Ph. Sept.93, Print Feb.94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse; ix) Signed, titled, inscribed, dated "Joy Ray, Ph. Sept.93, Print Feb.94, Wolfgang Tillmans" and numbered of ten on the reverse.
This work is accompanied by an installation diagram.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $50,000

Contemporary Art Part II

9 November 2010
New York