Andreas Gursky Visual Spaces of Today

A cura di Urs Stahel e Andreas Gursky. Saggio critico di Urs Stahel

Fond.MAST, Bologna 2023, 108 pagine, 30x27cm, 41 fotografie a colori, Cartonato con cofanetto, Edizione bilingue italiano/inglese, ISBN 9781915743114

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Mostra Bologna 25/5/23 - 07/01/24

La Fondazione MAST presenta il catalogo che accompagna la prima grande mostra antologica in Italia che copre oltre quarant’anni di attività dell’artista tedesco Andreas Gursky. Per l’occasione, il curatore Urs Stahel ha elaborato insieme all’artista un progetto che esplora visivamente i valori della Fondazione MAST. L’acronimo MAST sta per Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia: gli spazi visivi che Gursky crea nelle fotografie in mostra riflettono questi stessi universi tematici. Le sue immagini rivelano nuove modalità di rappresentare il lavoro, l'economia e la globalizzazione, offrono straordinarie prospettive di siti produttivi, centri di movimentazione delle merci, templi del consumo, nodi di trasporto, luoghi di produzione energetica e alimentare, sedi dell’industria finanziaria. Sfidando il nostro pensiero oltre che il nostro sguardo, le sue fotografie ci aiutano a inquadrare il paesaggio contemporaneo e a definire la nostra esperienza del mondo.  Il volume – pubblicato in occasione del decimo anniversario della Fondazione MAST di Bologna e del centesimo anniversario dell’impresa G.D – propone 41 fotografie di grande formato e un saggio critico di Urs Stahel che getta luce sulla ricerca artistica di uno dei maggiori interpreti del nostro tempo, la cui opera da quattro decenni amplia i confini della fotografia.

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Andreas Gursky: Niagara Falls (1989)

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Andreas Gursky - 'Bahnhof Sloterdijk', 1989

Andreas Gursky’s photographs are strangely fascinating: from the early 1990s on he developed what he calls „knitted“ photographs, made up of different individual shots, massive in format and detail (and eventually also price). In 2008 the Kunstmuseen Krefeld staged a grand retrospective of Gursky’s works from 1980 to the then present at Houses Lange and Esters, an exhibition that was accompanied by the present handy catalogue: published by @hatjecantzverlag it offers a beautifully designed and comprehensive overview of the photographer’s development over almost thirty years, from his early „Pförtnerlogen“ to later works like „Kuwait Stock Exchange“. What we get to see in these photographs is the morphology of the world that grew in scope alongside Gursky‘s success: where his early works explore his familiar surroundings of the Rhineland and Ruhr Area he later travelled the world in order to capture the determinants of our globalised world. Interestingly there’s always a somewhat distant but inevitable presence of man in relation to the world. When Gursky photographs stock exchanges, production halls or crowds of people during concerts he makes visible more than the human eye can see. But at the same time he captures determinants and symptoms of the present day in the manner of an encyclopedia of which each photograph is a necessary part. Read in this way his massive and massively successful work functions as an inventory of the late-capitalist world we live in and opens up a resonance space for the manifold discussions surrounding the human condition‘s status quo. „Andreas Gursky - Werke 80-08“ is an excellent cross section of the photographer‘s career that thankfully also brings to light his lesser-known series from the 1980s, more intimate, smaller works that often possess a subcutaneous wit his later works only rarely show.

' ... nicht abstrakt ' Gursky exhibition in museum K20, düsseldorf, germany // 08-2016 © 2016 waidwund-photo  

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