Andreas Gursky
Max Dax | Gagosian Quarterly | 5th May 2022
Gursky makes photography seem analogous to painting. Some analogies are purely visual. People in a frozen landscape look like a Breugel painting; images of tulips have a “formal similarity” to Rothko. Then there are analogies coming from how he manipulates his images – for example, adding a jet’s contrail to a landscape. That suggests a conceptual analogy – paintings and photography both need an underlying inspiration. Gursky’s current inspiration … “portents of a period of upheaval”.
