1955 (Leipzig, Germany)
On view through 7 January 2024 at Fondazione Mast in Bologna is an exhibition on the German photographer Andreas Gursky (Leipzig, 1955), known for his large-scale works. The forty images on display offer new takes on work, economics, and globalizatio
This is an anomalous spring. Anomalous in health, with a pandemic that has reached tragic levels in India; anomalous in climate, with the multiplication of extreme phenomena that make the crisis visible; and anomalous in geopolitics, with an increasi
On another notice, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has collected around 20 works around the concept of uninhabited space, interpreted in a different way by each one of the 19 photographers selected. While Andreas Gursky (see AVProyectos 022) reflects what t
Cuarenta imágenes del fotógrafo holandés Bas Princen en torno a la esencia del paisaje contemporáneo abordan la manera no planeada en que se utilizan los espacios. Una montaña creada por la acumulación de residuos nucleares ahora utilizada para compe
As violent reply to the kind world of the theme park, the one portrayed by Andreas Gursky is pervaded by an extreme desolation that hurts the eye. The relentless beauty of the images represents urban and human landscapes of fascinating geometry and d
The city is at once the product of composition and of construction: the almost metaphysical mannequin of Grosz presents with a mutilated gesture an urban fragment built with the mute ashlars of geometry, and the articulated puppets of Léger show with
Over the course of the second century of its existence, photography made a relatively rapid transit from scientific experimentation to major art form. In the beginning, photography’s unstable chemistry and the difficulty of fixing its images in emuls
La fotografía de arquitectura puede entenderse como una herramienta que muestra la realidad construida de un proyecto; o puede considerarse también como una disciplina artística, contaminada por otras artes como la pintura o el cine. Y es en esta últ