Avenue of the Americas

細節

Andreas Gursky (B. 1955)
Avenue of the Americas
signed, titled, dated and numbered 'Avenue of the Americas 2001 2/6 A. Gursky' (on the reverse)
color coupler print face mounted on Plexiglas
image: 61 7/8 x 121½ in. (157.2 x 308.6 cm.)
framed: 81 x 140½ in. (205.4 x 356.9 cm.)
Executed in 2001. This work is number two from an edition of six.

來源

Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner

展覽

Paris, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Andreas Gursky, February-April 2002, pp. 56-57 (illustrated; another from the edition exhibited).

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拍品專文

Avenue of the Americas, 2001 captures a nocturnal view of an illuminated high-rise office building on the titular avenue in New York. Gursky adopts a parallel viewpoint that renders a planar image and crops it so that the recognizable coordinates of the building disappear to leave a uniform, self-contained grid that appears to continue beyond the borders of the frame. Gursky executes an image that verges on the cusp of abstraction. Compromising depth and assuming a rhythmic pattern between the illuminated and darkened windows, Gursky bows to a Post-Cubist Minimalist grid. In doing so, he creates an "abstract realist" image that no longer reflects the specificity of location, but is symbolic of the edifices that characterize skyscrapers in an industralized and rapidly industralizing world.