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Artist, Artwork title, year

Andreas GURSKY
German 1955–
Tokyo Stock Exchange 1990
C-Print
205.0 x 260.0 x 6.2 cm
© Andreas Gursky /VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
The artist is represented by Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers Berlin, London and Matthew
Marks / New York.

Artist, Artwork title, year

Andreas GURSKY
German 1955–
Pyongyang I 2007
C-Print
307.0 x 215.5 x 6.2 cm
© Andreas Gursky /VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia
The artist is represented by Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers Berlin, London and Matthew
Marks / New York.

21 November 2008 to 22 February 09
Temporary Exhibition Space 2,
Ground Level
Admission Fees Apply

Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is one of the world’s leading contemporary international artists. In essence, his photographs are concerned with the experience of life in a globalised world. Through a combination of enormous scale; the most precise pin-sharp detail; and bold use of colour,
he systematically represents the individuals place within our complex, fast-paced consumer society. As Flash Art (2007) noted, Gursky scours global locations for scenes that explore ‘thematic dichotomies of macro and micro; individual and mass; photographic documentation and abstract formalism.’
Gursky has photographed quintessentially modern scenes – shops, stock markets, apartment buildings, leisure centres, and tourist sites – showing the world as high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, commercialised and overpopulated. Far more than a depressing spectacle of consumerism and globalisation, the sheer beauty and scale of Gursky’s photographs is highly seductive. Ultimately his extraordinary images are a visceral experience that makes us profoundly consider our own place within this world.



The exhibition Andreas Gursky is organised
by Haus der Kunst, Munich. The artist is
represented by Monika Sprüth Philomene
Magers / Cologne Munich London and
Matthew Marks / New York.

 

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