Andreas Gursky
dal 3/3/2001 al 15/5/2001
Segnalato da
3/3/2001
Andreas Gursky
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
The first major United States exhibition of the work of contemporary German artist Andreas Gursky opens at The Museum of Modern Art. Andreas Gursky presents some 45 photographs dating from 1984 to the present, with an emphasis on work since 1990, when Gursky began to focus on distinctly contemporary themes - and invented equally contemporary ways of picturing them. Organized by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, the exhibition includes many works never before seen in this country, including several pictures made within the past year.
The first major United States exhibition of the work of contemporary German artist Andreas
Gursky opens at The Museum of Modern Art. Andreas Gursky presents some 45
photographs dating from 1984 to the present, with an emphasis on work since 1990, when
Gursky began to focus on distinctly contemporary themes - and invented equally contemporary
ways of picturing them. Organized by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of
Photography, the exhibition includes many works never before seen in this country, including
several pictures made within the past year. The exhibition is accompanied by a large-format
book that includes 59 color plates, generous details, and a richly illustrated essay by Mr.
Galassi offering the first in-depth study of Gursky's art. Andreas Gursky is on view on the
Third Floor of the Museum through May 15, 2001. The exhibition will travel to the Reina
Sofia in Madrid, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago.
From Tokyo to New York, Paris to BrasÃlia, Cairo, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bonn,
Hong Kong, and elsewhere, Gursky has sought out signs of our times - vast hotel lobbies,
apartment buildings, warehouses, sporting championships, parliaments, international stock
exchanges, and massive techno-music raves. His large photographs, some as wide as 16 feet,
saturated with color and detail, present a stunning image of a world transformed by
high-tech industry, global markets, easy travel, and slick commerce. Mr. Galassi states,
"Gursky's bold, alluring, surprising pictures have won him widespread recognition as one of
the most original artists of his generation, and with good reason. For his commanding
signature style has arisen from a risky process of experiment that draws upon a great
diversity of images, ideas, and methods."
Gursky's formal experiments, his responsiveness to a wide variety of other images, and the
powerful presence of his finished works are rewarding in themselves. They are, moreover,
part and parcel of an original and compelling engagement with the here and now. As Mr.
Galassi states, "It is Gursky's fiction, but it is our world."
Third floor, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York