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ANDREAS GURSKY (b. 1955) SIEMENS, AUGSBURG four c-prints on paper mounted on Plexiglas in artist'...

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ANDREAS GURSKY (b. 1955) SIEMENS, AUGSBURG four c-prints on paper mounted on Plexiglas in artist'...
ANDREAS GURSKY
(b. 1955)
SIEMENS, AUGSBURG
four c-prints on paper mounted on Plexiglas in artist's wooden frame
framed: 521/4 x 129 in.
(132.7 x 327.7 cm)
executed in 1993
this work is from an edition of three
ESTIMATE: $60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE
Galerie Monika Sprüth, COLOGNE
Matthew Marks Gallery, NEW YORK
As the 1990's progressed and Gursky elaborated his up-to-date themes, his scope of operations expanded from the environs
of Düsseldorf and an occasional excursion to the Alps or
to Tenerife to an international itinerary that has taken him to Hong Kong, Cairo, New York, Brasilia, Stockholm, Tokyo, Chicago, Athens, Singapore, Paris, and Los Angeles. Local sites of Sunday leisure have been replaced by enormous industrial plants, apartment buildings, hotels, office buildings, and warehouses. Family outings and small-gauge tourism have given way to
the Olympics, a cross-country marathon involving hundreds of skiers, the German parliament, a boxing championship in a vast arena, and midnight techno raves attended by casts of thousands. Gursky's world of the 1990's is big, high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, and global. Within it the anonymous individual is but one among the many.
P. Galassi, Andreas Gursky, New York, 2001, p. 29