Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street
Vancouver, Canada
30 May - 20 September 2009
This groundbreaking exhibition presents a remarkable overview of the work of Andreas Gursky, the celebrated Düsseldorf-based photographer who is widely renowned for his ongoing project to compile an ‘encyclopedia of life.’
Now, for the first time ever, Gursky has chosen to present more than 130 works from throughout his career, reaching back in time to his student days at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, followed by the period in which he studied in the class taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Beginning with the earliest photographs, the exhibition describes an enormous trajectory that takes us to his most recent monumental works, conceived and produced especially for this exhibition.
Andreas Gursky: Werke/Works 80-08 offers a radical departure in the presentation of Gursky’s work.
The majority of the photographs in the exhibition are printed in a small format that has not been used by the artist since the early 1980s and it is significant that he has chosen to do so at this time.
For many years, Gursky has utilized increasingly larger formats in his work, monumental in scale and vision, but with this exhibition it is possible to revisit many familiar works at a scale and in a context that encourages a reconsideration of the individual images and his oeuvre as a whole.
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