Wolfgang Tillmans - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Thursday, February 28, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Maureen Paley, London

  • 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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Kneeling Nude

1997
Inkjet print.
174 x 119 cm. (68 1/2 x 46 3/4 in).
This is from an edition one one plus one artist's proof and is accompanied by a photograph signed by the artist.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Contemporary Art Day Sale

29 Feb 2008, 2pm
London