{"title":"Wolfgang Tillmans","description":"\u003cp\u003eWolfgang Tillmans (born 1968, Remscheid) is a German artist whose photographs, installations and publications span portraiture, still life, abstraction, documentary, and the found image. Working without hierarchy between subject matter or medium, his practice treats the photograph as an object in the world as much as a representation of it. He has been closely associated with the queer community in London and beyond, and his work engages persistently with political life, youth culture, music, and the circulation of images across media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTillmans was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000 and has been the subject of major retrospectives at Tate Modern, Kunsthalle Zürich, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. He participated in Documenta X in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wolfgang-tillmans-soldiers-the-nineties-four-hole-copy-walther-konig-cologne-1999","title":"WOLFGANG TILLMANS, Soldiers: The Nineties (Four-Hole Copy), Walther König, Cologne, 1999","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1999 alongside Tillmans's Soldiers – The Nineties project, the book grew out of a decade of looking at how young men in uniform appeared through photography and the media. Tillmans combined photographs he made himself with images he collected, allowing repetition and circulation to become as important as any single photograph. The project was shown that year at Interim Art \/ Maureen Paley in London, Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalther König, Cologne, 1999. 21.5 × 30 cm. 80 pages. Printed hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy carries four punctures to the rear cover, positioned close to its corners. Their regular placement suggests something practical rather than accidental: at some point the book appears to have been attached or mounted to another surface. For display? Storage? A shop? An exhibition? There is no surviving evidence that allows us to say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is exactly where this copy becomes interesting. A publication already concerned with the movement and repetition of images has itself passed through an undocumented physical use. Four holes are all that remain of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Rare identifies this as the Four-Hole Copy — a copy-specific state within the edition. No history has been assigned beyond what the object itself can support.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne publication. Many copies. This one passed through something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General surface and edge wear; four punctures to rear cover, retained and foregrounded as a defining copy-specific alteration. Origin unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eThe New Rare at Glue Book Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walther König","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54660302602578,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Tillmans_Wolfgang.SoldiersTheNineties.1999.jpg?v=1789068050"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/wolfgang-tillmans.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}