CONCORDE GRID

© the artist, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

CONCORDE GRID 1997

Wolfgang Tillmans (1968 – )

Details

Dimension
32 X 22 CM
Media
9 C-TYPE PHOTOGRAPHS
Accession number
P7195/A

Summary

In his Concorde series Tillmans documents sightings of this iconic image on the runways of Heathrow airport and in the skies around the West London hinterland – over suburban housing, railway sidings, parking lots and motorways. This distinctive symbol of progress and glamour, lone survivor of a more Utopian age recorded amidst the bleakness of the contemporary suburban landscape. Such is the equanimity of Tillmans’ observation that even these unprepossessing scenes take on an engaging dignity.