Image series 44 / 2015: Andreas Gursky
Digital Photo Art
25 October 2015
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By: Bettina Pfleging
Widescreen images, digitally processed in an elaborate way, are the trademark of Andreas Gursky, the photo artist from the so-called Becher School at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His reduced panoramas impress with their precision, order and colors. The aesthetic photographs that look like paintings are perfectly manipulated at the computer and they are often the result of many months of digital retouching. The images show a constructed reality with a lot of room for associations.
In the exhibition older well-known works as well as new visual compositions present Andreas Gurky’s intensive photographic study of the state of the world. 34 mostly large-format works from almost 30 years.
„Andreas Gursky”
3 October 2015 to 24 January 2016, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Andreas Gursky. Paris, Montparnasse, Ausschnitt, 1993, C-Print, 187 × 427,8 cm, London; DiDi – Digitale Diathek, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Andreas Gursky. Rhein, Ausschnitt, 1996, C-Print, 186 × 222 cm; DILPS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Andreas Gursky. 99 Cent store (magasin), Ausschnitt, 1999, C-Print, 207 × 337 cm; Iconothèque, Université de Genève
Andreas Gursky. Greeley, Ausschnitt, 2002, C-Print, 221,3 × 282,5 cm; DILPS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Andreas Gursky. PCF, Paris, Ausschnitt, 2003, C-Print; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Andreas Gursky. Beelitz, Ausschnitt, 2007, C-Print; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
Andreas Gursky. Pyongyang I, Ausschnitt, 2007, C-Print, 307 × 215,5 cm; HeidICON – Ostasienwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Andreas Gursky. Hamm, Bergwerk Ost, Ausschnitt, 2008, C-Print, Berlin/London; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte
