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Wolfgang Tillmans Torino Installation 2002 Four chromogenic prints: (i) Impossible Colour I, 2001 Unique chromogenic print 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) (ii) Impossible Colour II, 2001 Unique chromogenic print 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) (iii) Bernhard Willhelm, looking back, 2001 Chromogenic print 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm) Edition 2/3 + 1 (iv) Torino, 2000 Chromogenic print 72 ¾ x 61 ½ in. (184.8 x 156.2 cm) Edition 1/1 +1. Overall 72 3/4 x 189 in. (184.8 x 480.1 cm) One print signed in pencil with printed title, date and number on a label affixed to the reverse of the frame. This installation is unique.
Provenance Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Private Collection, Florida Literature Hatje Cantz, Wolfgang Tillmans Lighter, p. 362 Phaidon, Wolfgang Tillmans p. 110 Tate, Wolfgang Tillmans if one thing matters, everything matters, pp. 205, 227 and 229 for individual prints from the installation Catalogue Essay While initially establishing himself as his generation’s documentarian with his intimate portraits of his circle of friends in the London gay community, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has since moved beyond this basic categorization to become one of the leading contemporary artists of our time. Today, Tillmans is perhaps best known for his large-scale and precise wall installations, which juxtapose works from throughout his career, presented in an array of sizes and styles. These installations demonstrate his immense and diverse body of work including, as seen in Torino Installation, studies of color, portraiture and cityscapes. While portraits such as Bernhard Wihlem, looking back, included here, are clearly personal records of specific moments in Tillmans’ own life, by combining them with the more abstracted studies of color and city views, Tillmans allows them to additionally speak to the viewers in their own personal way. Thus, by showing his work in the new context of these installations, Tillmans is precluding a single interpretation of his photographs, instead allowing the images to transform and evolve over time with each new engagement. 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