Andreas Gursky

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Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig shows in his large format photographs of places of our time, which he records with a frontal, unobstructed view. His pictures are sharp in every detail, but look also consistent when the viewer takes a look at the picture from a distance. Conspicuous in Gursky's works is the absence of a central subject. Instead, he shows scenes that seem strange at the second glance, as if something is wrong. And indeed, each image is digitally reworked, a process that Gursky applied since the early 1990s. He composes several photos of a scene into a single image. In this method lies Gursky visual trick: just because a sharp photo does not leave no doubt that it reflects the reality, the viewer is shocked with even greater force, by the enlightment that what is shown is a completely manipulated reality. Gursky consequently sends the spectator on a visual tour in supermarkets, Formula One racetracks or stock exchanges. He is interested in showing the realities of the world from a global perspective, so he is virtually forced to give his pictures this abstraction, because this is the only way the view from far away he can guarantee to show the whole confusion. Gursky, lives and works in Düsseldorf. © ArtLogistics

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