Wolfgang Tillmans
Wald (Briol II) (Forest [Briol II])
2008
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Wolfgang Tillmans’s Wald (Briol II) belongs to a three-part series on the Briol forest in northern Italy. For all three works Tillmans used the same transformative reproduction process: with a photocopier, he made a copy of an original photograph, which he then enlarged again as a photographic print. The result is a blurring of the image that brings about not only a loss of definition but also an increase in abstraction. In Wald (Briol II), fields of black and white cross the picture plane, abstracting the image of a man following a path into the forest, here evoking the dense unknown. By estranging and dislocating the otherwise familiar, Tillmans establishes a certain amount of distance from this heavily loaded topos of German history and its connections to German Romanticism as well as to the blood-and-soil ideology of national socialism. At the same time, he opens it up, by detour of the copy machine, to a contemporary perspective and an exploration of the medium of photography itself. [Exhibition brochure text, 2013]
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Artist
Wolfgang Tillmans
(German, b. 1968)
- Title Wald (Briol II) (Forest [Briol II])
- Date 2008
- Medium Chromogenic color print
- Edition description 1/1 + 1 AP
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Dimensions
image | 100 1/2 x 67 3/8 in.
- Credit line University purchase, Parsons Fund, 2010
- Object number WU 2010.0001.0002
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Technique
chromogenic processes
digital printing
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Work type
photograph
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Theme
Landscape
Contemporary German Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/03/2013 - 09/07/2013
Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2011 - 01/09/2012
Dreamscapes
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts (St. Louis, Missouri), 02/11/2011 - 08/13/2011
Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/07/2010 - 07/26/2010
4/30/2010
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
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