Wolfgang Tillmans

Last one remaining

The limited edition, Tate Modern Edition, 2016, was generously created by Wolfgang Tillmans in support of the new Tate Modern building. During the construction process Tillmans visited the site, documenting various locations, machinery, people and other details and points of interest. The photographs were subsequently taken through a process of abstraction in the artist’s studio using a traditional photocopier as a medium for selection, separation and distortion.

Each of the unique works from the series of 172 is signed and numbered by the artist.

• Artist Wolfgang Tillmans
• Artwork Tate Modern Edition
• Dimensions 42 x 29.7 cm (A3)
• Material Framed behind UV resistant perspex
• Date of work 2016

Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Remscheid, Germany) studied at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art from 1990–92, before settling in London. In 1998 he was appointed guest professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg. In the late 1980s Tillmans began making photographs that constitute an intriguing hybrid of fashion photography and documentary reportage. Working at first with Hamburg-based style and fashion journals, he took photographs of the European club scene. In 1988 he began an extensive collaboration with the British lifestyle magazine i-D, in whose pages he published much of his work. His subjects range from intimate still-lives to portraits of friends and celebrities, referring often explicitly to his involvement with political issues such as homelessness, racism and gay rights. He exhibits his images in carefully constructed wall montages, mixing ink-jet prints with photographs and pages taken from the magazines. His styles encompass portraiture, documentary, still- life, landscape and more recently, a unique form of abstraction created by manipulating light on photographic paper. Tillmans was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000.