Wolfgang Tillmans - SEX Theme Sale London Thursday, March 18, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin

  • 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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Stiefelknecht II

1993
Colour coupler print.
58.4 x 40.3 cm (23 x 15 7/8 in) overall.
Signed, titled, dated, numbered and annotated ‘Wolfgang Tillmans, photo 21.2.93, print WT Oct. 93, 3/3 + 1' in ink on the verso.

Estimate
£1,200 - 1,800 

Sold for £3,000

SEX Theme Sale

19 March 2010
London