Gagosian gallery andreas gursky biography

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You never notice arbitrary details in my work. On a formal level, countless interrelated micro and macrostructures are woven together, determined by an overall organizational principle.
—Andreas Gursky

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. In his large-format, high-definition photographs, he presents hyperfocused scenes that privilege neither foreground nor background.

Gursky studied visual communication at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany, from to He then continued his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a master-class student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the artist duo known for their series of photographs of selected types of industrial structures, or “typologies.” While the Bechers used a standardized, documentary style to underscore the commonality inherent in variation, Gursky’s studies propelled him to expand the idea of the photographic document by using digital manipulation and montage to record specific scenes,

Andreas Gursky

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On the occasion of an exhibition at Gagosian, New York, Max Dax met with Andreas Gursky to speak with the photographer about his new work. Here, they discuss the consequences of the pandemic on certain works, the roles of techno music and art history in Gursky’s art process, and the necessary balance of beauty and honesty in the contemporary.

Andreas Gursky, Salinas, , Diasec-mounted inkjet print, framed: 80 × ⅜ × 2 ½ inches ( × × cm)

Max Dax is a German writer who investigates art, music, and pop culture. As editor-in-chief of the magazines Alert, Spex, and Electronic Beats, Dax has shaped pop journalism in Germany for more than three decades. He curated the recent museum shows Hyper! A Journey into Art and Music in Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen () and Black Album/White Cube in Rotterdam’s Kunsthal (). As a musician, Dax is an active member of both the band Brandt Brauer Dax Frick and the art/music collective LAWBF. Together with Luci Lux, he runs the Santa Lucia Gallery of Conversations, Berlin. His first novel, Dissonanz, was published in the spring of

Whether working from nature or from cities

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