Wolfgang Tillmans: Blushes #76

Blushes #76

Wolfgang Tillmans

“The initial question everybody asks when confronted with a photograph is, who is it? Where is it?.... A photograph is always seen through its content and rarely through its presence as an object in itself.”

—Wolfgang Tillmans

Now available exclusively through David Zwirner Online, Wolfgang Tillmans's photograph, Blushes #76 (2000)—part of the artist's ongoing Blushes series of purely abstract photographs—debuts as a solo presentation.

Proceeds from the sale of this photograph directly benefit the Art for Justice Fund, an initiative dedicated to addressing issues of mass incarceration.

Its founder, philanthropist and collector Agnes Gund, is seeding the fund by donating the proceeds from the sale of art from her personal collection, and encouraging other patrons to do the same.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Blushes #76, 2000

Inkjet print on paper, clips

118 1/8 x 94 1/8 inches (300 x 239 cm)

Edition 1 of 1, 1 AP
Certificate of Authenticity

Installation view, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 2003.

Installation view, Blushes, fig-1, London, 2000

The fine, threadlike marks on the surface of Tillmans’s Blushes prints are made by manually exposing photographic paper to various light sources—including torches—in the darkroom and then processing the picture. Inherently self-referential, these works counter the dominance of subject matter in photography.

According to Tillmans, the Blushes works “do not do anything that photography doesn’t do anyway, because they record light. They’re inherently photographic, and they are not like painting.... [T]hey do not abuse the photographic process to do something else and so, in that sense, they are as truthful as any photograph can be.”

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