Wolfgang Tillmans - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 13, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Interim Art/Maureen Paley, London

  • Literature

    B. Riemschneider, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans, Cologne, 1995, n.p. (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

     

  • 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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Kitchen after party

1992, printed 1993
Cibachrome print.
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm).
Signed, titled, dated “Wolfgang Tillmans Kitchen after party ph.Oct 92 Pr. WT Oct 93” and numbered of three on the reverse. This work is from an edition of three plus one artist’s proof.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Contemporary Art Part II

13 Nov 2009
New York