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Wolfgang Tillmans Supercollider (Refraction) C 2003 C-print. 68 x 57 in. (172.7 x 144.8 cm). This work is from an edition of one plus one artist's proof.
Provenance Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Germany Literature Tate Britain, ed., Wolfgang Tillmans If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters, London, 2003, p. 298 (illustrated); J. Hammond “Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer, A German photographic artist swims against the tide,” Metropolis, Tokyo, December 2004 (illustrated) Catalogue Essay German-born, London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’ rich and intimate pictures testify to the artist’s experimental spirit. Challenging the history of image consumption with magazine-style exhibition and a variety of photographic techniques, Tillmans has manipulated the conventions of photography and repurposed the photograph itself. His pictures expose a multitude of moments, yet become art objects rather than pictorial records. The present lot is an expansion on this concept. Exposing film directly to light in the darkroom, Tillmans creates “blushes” of two-dimensional planes of color. Reflective of his fractured figurative photographs, the work is an abstract and striking example of Tillmans’ artistic agility. Like everything in my work, they’re a mix of intention and accident… People can’t really think about pictures as objects… They’re still only a representation of what’s on them. The myriad formal choices that a photographer makes are always taken for granted or overlooked. I’m trying to go against this thinking that photos can only be accessed via their subject matter. I think about just the same questions that a painter would about the problems of representation. I just found that photographs are the language I speak best in. Wolfgang Tillmans in V. Aletti, “Wolfgang Tillmans: A Project for Artforum”, Artforum, February 2001 Read More Artist Bio Wolfgang Tillmans German • 1968 Based in London and Berlin, photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is an expert at capturing the intricacies of interpersonal relationships. Focusing mainly on portraits and lifestyle photos, Tillmans has documented celebrity culture as well as LGBTQ communities and club culture. Though participating in the tradition of portraiture, Tillmans makes a point of producing non-representational work that pushes the limits of his chosen medium. He began experimenting with a Canon photocopier in the late 1980s and captured images that present surface and scale as subject matter. Tillmans' oeuvre took a pivotal shift with a public exhibition of new work at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in 2006 — his first institutional show in America. The 24 never-before-seen images were large-scale and purely abstract, displaying objects in space, simultaneously buoyant and weighty. Demonstrating the gravitas of this series is quiet mind, a highlight from our New York 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in May 2017, that engulfs the viewer and holds a visceral impact not dissimilar from Abstract Expressionist or Color Field painting. View More Works