Wolfgang Tillmans Abstract Photography

Since the early 1990s wolfgang tillmans has pushed the boundaries of the photographic medium.

Wolfgang tillmans abstract photography. The silver works which tillmans has been creating since 1998 reflect the. Abstract pictures wolfgang tillmans is without a doubt one of the most prominent practitioners of abstract photography today. See more ideas about wolfgang tillman abstract photography photography. Wolfgang tilmans interest in photography as a medium goes beyond the camera.

It is abstract but still representational utilizing traditional photographic materials to make a sculpture that is then made back into a photograph. Tillmans exhibited his first abstract and damaged pictures as a parkett edition in 1998. It is abstract but still representational utilizing traditional photographic materials to make a sculpture that is then made back into a photograph. Nov 8 2017 explore shisekihayato s board wolfgang tillmans on pinterest.

Aug 5 2018 photography wolfgang tillmans. In 1998 he introduced abstraction into his work moving into a new realm of visual language. Tillmans first experimented with photography in 1987 by. Tillmans questions and reaffirms our expectations of photography in the same work.

A meta execution of photography self referential and recursive. Fragile the godown arts centre and circle art gallery nairobi kenya 12 april 11 may 2018 fragile travels to nairobi from kinshasa where it was presented at the musée d art contemporain et multimédias earlier this year. A meta execution of photography self referential and recursive. In the past decade he has pursued this tack making wholly non representational photographs that explore processes of exposure.

The edition 60 unique works on color negative photographic paper collected by the artist since he began colour printing in 1990 was a combination of true darkroom mistakes and years of darkroom experimentation that they inspired. Tillmans questions and reaffirms our expectations of photography in the same work. These three unique works executed in 2000 park i ii iii belongs to the artist s studies in the behavior of light and colour. See more ideas about wolfgang tillman photography abstract.

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.