| Major exhibition by German artist Andreas Gursky at Gagosian Gallery in New York |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents a major exhibition by Andreas Gursky.
At the 21st Street gallery, Gursky premieres Bangkok, a new series of large-scale works, in tandem with the majestic Oceans of 2010, which are being shown in New York for the first time. Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, Gursky finds inspiration in his own spontaneous visual experience and through reports of global phenomena in the daily media. The resulting pictures have a formal congruence deriving from a bold and edgy dialogue between photography and painting, empirical observation and artfulness, conceptual rigor and spontaneity, representation and abstraction. Gursky’s world view fuses the flux of life and nature with the stillness of metaphysical reflection. In the Oceans (2009-10), Gursky relinquished his position behind the camera to work with satellite images of read full article
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