Wolfgang Tillmans - Under the Influence New York Friday, September 23, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

  • 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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Installation of 17 Photographs

i) rosen, 1994; ii) police helicopter, 1995; iii) Anita Sarko, 1994; iv) Swiss Police, 1994; v) Morwenna Banks, Mirror, 1995; vi) Damon, shower, head up, 1995; vii) me, in the shower, 1990; viii) Liv Tyler, 1995; ix) 303, in grass, 1993; x) Damon, 1995; xi) Mistress Formica, 1995; xii) Adam, redeye, 1991; xiii) AA Breakfast, 1995; xiv) Kasper König’s bookshelf, 1995; xv) Turnhose (sandalen), 1992; xvi) Isa, vor Sound Factory, 1995; xvii) Pure, EDI, 1995
17 chromogenic prints.

Each 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm) or 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm); Each 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm) or 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Each respectively signed, titled, dated and numbered of 10 or three on the reverse. Each work is from an edition of 10 or three plus one artist's proof. This work is accompanied by the artist's installation instructions.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $50,000

Under the Influence

23 September 2011
New York