Provenance
Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Catalogue Essay
In the last 10 years, I have worked a lot with purely photographic material and light in the darkroom making pictures I wouldn’t be able to do either with paint or with the camera,” he explains. It is interesting to put these right next to the Daguerre and Turner paintings, which are totally about light. My pieces do that, too, but in a contemporary way. What is also considered to be a specialty of mine is large, impactful but very fragile pictures. They are strong and powerful, but actually they are lightweight and vulnerable.

-Wolfgang Tillmans

(L. Davis, “Turner Prize winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans tells Laura Davis about his new exhibition at the Walker,” Liverpool Daily Post, September 8, 2010)
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

Freischwimmer 20

2003
Inkjet print.
72 x 53 3/4 in. (182.9 x 136.5 cm).
This work is from an edition of one plus one artist’s proof. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

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Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton
Paint Cans (from Dear Ketel One drinker hello again)
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Freischwimmer 20
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Urs Fischer
Ohne Titel (Geige)
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Christopher Wool
Untitled
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Cady Noland
No Title
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Albert Oehlen
Das Gewicht der Ladung
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Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Pink Butterfly Green mg03)
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Jim Hodges
Once Together / Apart
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Michaël Borremans
The Veils
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Thomas Ruff
Zycles 3041
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Piotr Uklański
Untitled (Eagle, American)
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Jack Pierson
Some fucked up notion of a dream
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Raymond Pettibon
No Title (Measuring Up)
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Andy Warhol
Detail of the Last Supper / Be a Somebody with a Body
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Rudolf Stingel
Untitled (After Sam)
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Steven Parrino
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Tire Planter, black)
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Jack Goldstein
Untitled
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Andy Warhol
Vesuvius
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Tom Sachs
Chanel Fountain
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Ross Bleckner
Pausing and inhaling
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Raoul De Keyser
Untitled
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Keith Haring
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Donald Judd
Untitled 1978 (7.78 Judd)
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Agnes Martin
Untitled
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Sunrise, august, west
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Wenn ich mir was Wünschen dürfte [M.D. auf Omas Tapete]
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NEW MUSEUM
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Artist Biography

Wolfgang Tillmans

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Freischwimmer 20

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New York