Spielautomat (Slot Machine), 1999 - 2000, a self - portrait of the artist as a slot machine, features the title object covered with overlapping rows of images — snapshots of artist friends such as Lawrence Weiner, photographs of male movie stars
torn from magazines, postcards and
pictures of street scenes and storefronts — and is topped with a portrait of Genzken by Tillmans.
This exhibition will feature photographs
from his recent
Pictures of
Magazines 2 series, in which the artist has carefully culled and torn pieces of paper from art, fashion and news magazines; amalgamated them into re-creations of iconic and historically significant paintings; and then photographed and magnified the images, resulting in evocative, exquisitely - detailed and entirely unique work
Magazines 2 series, in which the artist has carefully culled and
torn pieces of paper
from art, fashion and news
magazines; amalgamated them into re-creations of iconic and historically significant paintings; and then photographed and magnified the images, resulting in evocative, exquisitely - detailed and entirely unique work
magazines; amalgamated them into re-creations of iconic and historically significant paintings; and then photographed and magnified the images, resulting in evocative, exquisitely - detailed and entirely unique works of art.
... this exhibition features some of her earliest muted paintings, works that take their subjects
from pictures torn from magazines, images
from television, and photographs
from books about World War II.»