Zoobrücke, Köln

Details

Andreas Gursky (B. 1955)
Zoobrücke, Köln
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Zoobrücke 88 9/12 A. Gursky' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print face-mounted to Plexiglas
image: 45¼ x 34½in. (115 x 88cm.)
sheet: 58¼ x 47¼in. (148 x 120cm.)
Executed in 1988, this work is number nine from an edition of twelve

Provenance

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1984-1993, 1994 (illustrated in colour, p. 35). This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, De Appel Foundation.
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Permanent Collection (another from the edition exhibited).

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Lot Essay

'I wasn't interested in an unusal, possibly picturesque view of the Rhine, but in the most contemporary possible view of it'

(A. Gursky, quoted in L. Cooke, 'Andreas Gursky: Vision (Per)Versions, M. L. Syring (ed.), Andreas Gursky: Photographs from 1984 to the present, exh. cat., Dusseldorf, Kunsthaus Düsseldorf, 1998, p. 13).

Zoobrücke, Köln

Lot Essay

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