I don't want to get over you
Tillmans first gained attention in the late 1980s for his deceptively simple, provocative glimpses of international youth culture, first published in the British style magazine i-D. More recently, he has applied his mastery of color to a new interest in abstraction, working in the same loose, improvisational mode that characterized his earlier portraits and still lifes. With their lush, high-key chromaticism and visceral emotional impact, Tillmans's best photographs aspire to the condition of the perfect three-minute pop song. This work is titled after a recording by the New York-based group The Magnetic Fields.
Artwork Details
- Title: I don't want to get over you
- Artist: Wolfgang Tillmans (German, born Remscheid, 1968)
- Date: 2000
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 185.4 x 155.3 cm (73 x 61 1/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Promised gift of Andrew J. Ong
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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