Title:   paper drop (reversed) II

Media: Framed inkjet print on paper

Size: Print size 30,5 x 40,6 cm (frame size: 33 x 45,5 x 2 cm)

About the work: 'For me the photograph is first of all an object in space. It is not primarily a depiction but a picture. In my lens-based paper drop works I made the photographic paper itself my subject matter, creating images that are figurative and abstract at the same time. I liken them to mathematical functions. I can’t calculate them but a mathematician could describe exactly how their shapes happened through the tension of the paper and gravity. They are almost like scientific illustrations.’ (Wolfgang Tillmans)

Bio: Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968 in Remscheid, Germany) is an artist working primarily in photography whose practice encompasses three-dimensional installations, sound and video, book making, journalism and writing as well as photographs generated both with and without a camera. 

Since the early 1990s, Tillmans’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize. His work is held in museum collections worldwide. Tillmans lives and works in Berlin and London.