{"product_id":"wolfgang-tillmans-freischwimmer-tfl-1","title":"Wolfgang Tillmans - Freischwimmer TfL","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFreischwimmer TFL 150\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) is a signed archival pigment print by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/wolfgang-tillmans\" title=\"Wolfgang Tillmans artworks\"\u003eWolfgang Tillmans\u003c\/a\u003e, created to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. The artwork belongs to Tillmans' celebrated Freischwimmer series — among the most significant bodies of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/abstract-art\" title=\"Abstract artworks\"\u003eabstract photography\u003c\/a\u003e of the 21st century — and carries the official Transport for London 150 roundel, making it a unique intersection of public commission and fine art practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eFreischwimmer\u003c\/em\u003e series, begun in 2003, is made entirely without a camera. Working in the darkroom, Wolfgang Tillmans exposes photosensitive paper directly to a controlled light source — a flashlight — before developing it as a standard colour print. The result is pure light, chemistry, and chance: fluid green forms that shift from deep emerald to luminous aquamarine, evoking water, skin, astronomy, or chemicals dissolving — associations the viewer's brain supplies entirely on its own. As Tillmans has described: \"They are \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-photographs\" title=\"Contemporary photographs\"\u003ephotographs\u003c\/a\u003e made without a camera, purely with light… they evoke all sorts of associations, like skin, or astronomy, or chemicals dissolving, and it's all done by the brain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe connection between the Freischwimmer images and the London Underground is not incidental. Wolfgang Tillmans had previously chosen the series for a 2011 art campaign on Tube carriages, explaining: \"I'd been thinking of the mind wandering off during a Tube journey — eyes closed, drifting out of the crowded city into some aqueous or natural space.\" This \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/limited-edition-prints\" title=\"Limited edition prints\"\u003elimited edition print\u003c\/a\u003e extends that dialogue between public transit and private reverie into collectible form. Hand-signed and numbered in an edition of 100, printed on Hahnemühle photo-rag paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wolfgang Tillmans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53355861213526,"sku":null,"price":3400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/3035\/8358\/files\/wolfgang-tillmans-freischwimmer-tfl-photographs-6959823.jpg?v=1777599682","url":"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/products\/wolfgang-tillmans-freischwimmer-tfl-1","provider":"MLTPL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}