Ultrachrome, 2014

signed and numbered 'Wolfgang Tillmans 1/3 +1' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
Inkjet print on paper mounted on aluminum in artist's frame

27 5/8 x 36 1/4 in.
70.2 x 92.1 cm.

This work is number one from the edition of three, plus one artist's proof.

Footnotes

Provenance
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Ultrachrome, 2014 is one of several photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans taken from elevated positions, including aircrafts and tall buildings, where the artist utilizes the "view from above". The subject matter of this series ranges from everyday items such as flowers in a vase to parks and playgrounds, agricultural landscapes and cityscapes, some of which closely resemble topographic maps.

Tillmans has said about this body of work "I think one of the unifying things is that they are a representation of an unprivileged gaze or view. The unprivileged view may be applied to all my works. In photography, I like to assume exactly the unprivileged position, the position that everybody can take, that chooses to sit at an airplane window or chooses to climb a tower. That perspective, on various levels, allows me to work at the same time in a figurative and an abstract manner, analyzing what one could call 'the surface of the social fabric' and getting forms and shapes from which to derive pictures." (Wolfgang Tillmans, cited in Nathan Kernan, "What They Are: A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans," Wolfgang Tillmans: View from above, exh. cat. Ostfildern, 2001, p. 10.)

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