Abstract Pictures
Wolfgang Tillmans
Hatje Cantz
English, German
Texts by Dominic Eichler and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Hardcover
384 pages
297 x 275 mm
2011
ISBN 9783775727433
Apart from his seminal portraits, party images, and still lifes that gained him recognition in the nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans long ago began dealing with more abstract motifs. Throughout the 2000s he consistently developed his approach to create totally non-representational works that examine themes such as the process of exposure and image supports. From the delicate veils of color in Blushes and Freischwimmer or the sculptural paper drops made of rolled-up photographic paper, to the colourfully compelling works of the Lighter series, the photograph itself—essentially divorced from its reproductive function—becomes the objet d’art, as the book here, designed by the artist himself, impressively demonstrates. This photobook received the German Photo Book Award in Silber, 2012.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/books/9193-wolfgang-tillmans-abstract-pictures)
About the Artist
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Remscheid, Germany) is one of the most accomplished and widely celebrated artists working today, recognised for major contributions to the development of contemporary photography in terms of subject matter, production, scale, presentation and methodology. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photographer – and also the first non-British person – to be awarded the Tate annual Turner Prize. He has also been awarded the Hasselblad Award, the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’s Charles Wollaston Award, The Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography, and is an Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Tillmans lives in Berlin and London.
tillmans.co.uk
(source: https://www.moma.org/artists/8044 , https://imma.ie/whats-on/wolfgang-tillmans-rebuilding-the-future/)
About the Publisher
Hatje Cantz is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd Hatje and has offices in Stuttgart and Berlin. Hatje Cantz Verlag has a backlist of nearly 800 titles.
hatjecantz.de
(source: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/hatje-cantz-verlag/g1218r9zb?hl=en)
