Andreas Gursky. Untitled XIII, 2002.
Nominated for Untitled XIII, 2002.
ADP magazine 1(5): This is the new shit! | Published 01 November 2009
Intro | Darren Almond | Christopher Anderson | Sammy Baloji | Edward Burtynsky
Andreas Gursky | Naoya Hatakeyama | Nadav Kander | Ed Kashi | Abbas Kowsari | Yao Lu
Edgar Martins | Chris Steele-Perkins
Andreas Gursky | Naoya Hatakeyama | Nadav Kander | Ed Kashi | Abbas Kowsari | Yao Lu
Edgar Martins | Chris Steele-Perkins
From press pack: Andreas Gursky confronts the viewer with an apparently infinite landscape of garbage. From a distance this work appears abstract and colourful recalling a Jackson Pollock drip painting. Closer inspection reveals small figures desperately searching a dump in Chimalhuacán, Mexico City. Gursky often concentrates on sites of commerce and tourism, making work that draws attention to today’s burgeoning high-tech industry and global markets. His subject matter ranges from the vast, anonymous architecture of modern day hotel lobbies, apartment buildings and warehouses to stock exchanges and parliaments across the globe. In contrast the people in these images eek out a living from their finds in order to survive each day. Andreas Gursky is a major artist of international standing.
> C-print, 280 x 207 x 6.3 cm. © Andreas Gursky / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009. Courtesy Andreas Gursky and Sprüth Magers Berlin London.
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