Pebbles From Paradise (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A Supermarket, (Not by Andreas Gursky) I understand that at one time the interior of an empty supermarket photographed by Andreas Gursky and printed as a giant Cibachrome was the most expensive photograph ever sold. I never thought much of that image, but some of his more recent sets, for example of stock exchanges across the world [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it’s been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here. For Indians, who are viewing the works of the Becher [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
May 29 Fly into Düsseldorf to control the printing of an exhibition I'm having at Phillips de Pury Gallery in London this summer. Grieger is the only lab in Europe that specialises in large-format printing. You walk in and you see the work of Andreas Gursky and all the other German artists that I adore. I had to stand on top of a ladder to see them because they are so big; it's impossible to hold them...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
{ Never Neutral } (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Andreas Gursky, 99cent (1990) — Today Gravity and Grace are in the supermarket. They carry hand baskets made of steel. “What price bananas'” asks Grace. “Are you my angel'” Gravity sighs. The packaged plastic colours glare, making everyone feel lonely. — Michael Faber on Mark Evanier’s Jack Kirby.
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
This past February, Sotheby's auctioned off a ton of original work by contemporary superstar-artists like Andreas Gursky, Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, with proceeds benefiting The Global Fund AIDS relief program. Damien Hirst has since released a limited number of t-shirts featuring prints of the original work done by these artists for, well, a lot [...]
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
It's the inhumanity isn't it that suggests the sublime. We interpret the people as tiny and akin to making their presence felt in the world, like a minute, leisurely colony of ants. is this not a landmark of a global economy with this work constituting a map of the postmodern...
Lussorian (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
Pieces by the iconic artists Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol have been auctioned for a staggering total figure of £95m ($190m) according to Sotheby's. The auction house, claim to have set a new record for contemporary pieces sold in Europe. The pieces sold included: Francis Bacon's 1969 Study of Nude With Figure In A Mirror - sold for £20m ($40m). Three Andy Warhol self portraits, dating from 1986, were...
Planethalder (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
Our weekend began on Friday night when we met up to eat at Eat And Two Veg in Marylebone. The building was wonderfully cavernous with high ceilings, exposed brick and dark wooden furnishings, but the food was a little too stodgily vegetarian for my liking, featuring such old school ingredients as textured soya protein and quorn. I much prefer the fresher, more modern and imaginative vegetarian delights...
Planethalder (Free subscription) | 26/08/2007
What a lovely Bank Holiday weekend this is turning out to be. Though the weather is being typically variable - vacillating from sunny and warm to grey and cool - we began the weekend with no plans whatsoever. We are simply going to spend three days enjoying our city and doing things as and when we want to. On Friday , M and I met up after work for a wander around the Global Cities installation in the...
