Wolfgang Tillmans - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 18, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Tate Publishing, if one thing matters everything matters Wolfgang Tillmans, London 2003, p. 188 (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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Central Line

2000
C-print.
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm).
Signed, inscribed, numbered of 10 and dated "ph 07.00 prwt 10 00 Wolfgang Tillmans 00-023" on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 10 plus one artist's proof.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $6,600

Contemporary Art Part II

18 May 2007
10am & 2pm New York