Pyongyang III, 2007
Andreas Gursky
Pyongyang III, 2007
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Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Biography
Since the early 1990s, Andreas Gursky has made use of the technical possibilities of digital processing in the production of his images. The motifs are photographed using both analogue and digital methods. Employing the many shots taken this way, the final image is composed using digital technology. Andreas Gursky’s works, therefore, are not classical documentary photographs that attempt to portray objects with the greatest possible likeness by making use of the medium, but rather, are fictions based on facts.
He has exhibited widely with solo and group exhibitions including the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (2013); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2013); Künstlerhaus K/Haus, Vienna, Austria (2012); Tate Britain, London, UK (2012); Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (2010); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2009) and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2008).
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