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Architecture hardcover august 1, 2008 by ralf beil author. Andreas gursky has been widely celebrated for his monumental, extraordinarily detailed pictures, often exploring contemporary global themes. In the new ocean series, with their darkly nuanced surfaces, gursky has worked to. Chicago, board of trade ii, andreas gursky, 1999 tate. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and design for sale and learn about the artist. In his resplendent largescale photographs, andreas gursky captures the modern world, and its landscapes, people, architecture, and industries, in seductive detail.
Shot from an elevated perspective and produced on an epic scale, gurskys images show the individual or granularsupermarket products, soccer players, windows on a building, or islands in the seasubsumed by the masses or the. Andreas gursky is perhaps the bestknown member of a loose association of german artists under the tutelage of the conceptual photographers bernd and hilla becher. In rhine ii 1999, a photograph of the river, gursky the subject of a major retrospective curated by ralph rugoff at the newly reopened hayward gallery in london edited out of the scene a coal power station and other details. The designers republics adventures in and out of architecture by. Andreas gursky s most popular book is andreas gursky. Gursky has built a career on colossal, panoramic pictures of subjects that are extremely ordinary the view from a departure lounge of. From images of nature to photographs of cities, crowds, and commercial products, andreas gursky invents new worlds from existing elements, constructing tableaux based on his methodical observations. It is also the first exhibition to take place in the gallery following its twoyear renovation overseen by fcbstudios, along with the restoration of the queen elizabeth hall and purcell room.
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Andreas gursky, early landscapes, open 15 april 21 june 2014. Gurskys photos feature scenes involving enormous amounts of information. Check out his latest exhibitions, get news and explore the artwork of the dusseldorf based photographer. The quality of the images is excellent and the only issue i have with the book is the size of the offerings. Shop andreas gursky bangkok catalogue gagosian gallery. Andreas gursky photography monographs and exhibition catalogs. Learn about the broad collection artist andreas gursky. This is a fairly inexpensive way to acquire one of andreas gursky s books.
Andreas gursky, white cube, london art and design the. Andreas gursky has taken a big picture of a lot of cows. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. In pursuit of his aim to create an encyclopedia of life gurskys world view fuses the flux of reality with the stillness of metaphysical reflection. Andreas gursky born 1955 is one of the most celebrated living photographers. The recordbreaking achievement came as a surprise to many, since the work featured a relatively bleak and deserted landscape without the vibrancy or boldness of the previous recordholder cindy.
For the german photographer and artist andreas gursky, reality can only be shown by constructing it. Andreas gursky s large color photographs vividly encapsulate our world of hightech industry, global markets, easy travel, and slick commerce. Gursky s photos feature scenes involving enormous amounts of information. A solo museum exhibition followed the next year, at the museum haus lange, krefeld. If you are interested in knowing more about andreas gursky photography, this book is the one for you. Im a bit jealous of painting, where you have surface and the smell of paint. Buy andreas gursky architecture 01 by ralf beil isbn. I captured the miniature architecture, the density and irregularity of the buildings. Famed worldwide for his epically proportioned photographs, andreas gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive informationwhich he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. If you are looking for examples of gurskys architecture photography, this is not the book for that. In my case, it is always the same, he told a reporter for canadian art in 2009. In his largeformat, highdefinition photographs, he presents hyperfocused scenes that privilege neither foreground nor background. Seen from above, the floor is a dense hive of activity.
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His images of contemporary cultures excesses and sublimities rival the greatest history paintings for size and narrative richness. Andreas gursky museum exhibition catalogues, monographs, artists projects, curatorial writings and essays regardless of whether he explores work or leisure, factory farming or spectacular events, supermarket products or rubbish tops, every single exposure in gurskys encyclopedic morphology is a vital piece in the puzzle, which over some twentyeight years has resulted in a sweeping view of. Andreas gursky the worlds most expensive photographer. A japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in parisin the work of german art photographer andreas gursky, born in 1955 in leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes aweinspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life. Walking around the andreas gursky exhibition at the hayward gallery, i struggled to recall what these huge photographs reminded me of.