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Andreas Gursky

Famed worldwide for his epically proportioned photographs, Andreas Gursky is one of very few contemporary artists able to represent cultures of excessive information — which he does through images of supermarket wares, crowds, trash, architecture and nature. The extreme detail of Gursky's final image — achieved by digital restructuring — produces a vertiginous effect on the viewer, as it oscillates between total representation and total abstraction. It could be said that Gursky updates the eighteenth-century sublime for our times.

This publication surveys the artist's most recent creations, on display at the renowned Kunstmuseum Basel throughout the winter of 2007/2008. Two new groups of works in particular, one on Formula 1 races and the other on the famous Arirang Festival (a closely choreographed mass spectacle in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang), are gathered here.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 127
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9783775720199
  • Genres
  • photography, art
  • Release date
  • 2008