Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Andreas Gursky

German visual artist b.1955. In the early 1980s Gursky studied at Germany's State Art Academy, the Kunstakedemie Dusseldof, and it is here where he was trained and taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher (see previous posts).

Best known for his enormous high quality colour photographs with amazing detail, he captures man made structures such as office buildings, stock exchanges, car parks.. anything with great scale. The way they are presented in galleries and such are about 119 x 81 inches, so pretty grand on scale. They are usually in a light box too, and you can see such little detail due to this.
He is currently represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Spruth Magers Berlin London in Europe.
http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=136&im=1

What I love about his work is the pure quality of such an image, quality in terms of the vibrant colours presented as well as the smaller details. I also love the structure and stern geometric simple shapes laid before, with more complex shapes and happenings going on within them. I'd really like to produce work on this sort of level, but equipment costs and set up costs would be impossible, as well as traveling as no where around me has amazing buildings such as these below!



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