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ANDREAS GURSKY (b. 1955) TURNER COLLECTION, LONDON signed, titled and numbered on the reverse chr...

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ANDREAS GURSKY (b. 1955) TURNER COLLECTION, LONDON signed, titled and numbered on the reverse chr...
ANDREAS GURSKY
(b. 1955)
TURNER COLLECTION, LONDON
signed, titled and
numbered on the reverse
chromogenic color print
69 1/4 x 84 in. (176 x 213.4 cm)
executed in 1995
this work is from an edition of six <p>PROVENANCE
Mai 36 Galerie, ZURICH <p>EXHIBITED
FRANKFURT, Schirn Kunsthalle, PROSPECT 96, PHOTOGRAPHY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, 1996, p. 165 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, ANDREAS GURSKY: FOTOGRAFIEN 1984 BIS HEUTE, August 29-October 18, 1998, p. 131 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum; Winterthur, Fotomuseum; LONDON, Serpentine Gallery; EDINBURGH, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; TORINO, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Art Contemporanea and LISBON, Centro Cultural de Belém, ANDREAS GURSKY: FOTOGRAFIEN 1994-1998, May 23, 1998-January 2, 2000, p. 19 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
NEW YORK, Museum of Modern Art; PARIS, Centre Pompidou and CHICAGO, Museum of Contemporary Art, ANDREAS GURSKY, March 4, 2001-September 28, 2002, pl. 23 (another example exhibited; illustrated)
MADRID, Museo Naciona Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ANDREAS GURSKY, July 12-September 23, 2001
Andreas Gursky is well known for his large-scale, magnificently detailed photographs. He has captured the awe-inspiring vastness of cloud-covered glacier ranges, the individuals that make up a sea of thousands, and the intricate beauty of architectural interiors and exteriors that have otherwise blended into the background of our daily lives. Among this group of works are the two unique examples of museum photographs that Gursky executed in the mid-90s. TURNER COLLECTION, LONDON is one of these photographs. This image captures a stillness and majesty that is not found in nature's landscape but rather in the ability of man to create works of great inspiration; a feeling museum-goers know well. Here Gursky turns his attention to the museum as a means of transporting the viewer to a humanistic plateau. Gursky has not revisited this theme since TURNER COLLECTION, LONDON. The work remains an important example of Gursky's ability to show us new and inciting views of our world and ourselves.
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