Gasherd (Gas Cooker)

Details

Andreas Gursky (b. 1955)
Gasherd (Gas Cooker)
signed 'Andreas Gursky' (on a label affixed to the backing board)
C-print in artist's frame
image: 33 ¾ x 23 ¼in. (85.5 x 59cm.)
overall: 39 5/8 x 29 ¼in. (100.6 x 74.2cm.)
Conceived in 1980 and executed in 2011, this work is number nineteen from an edition of twenty-five

Provenance

Donated by the Artist, courtesy of Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London.

Exhibited

Krefeld, Kunstmuseen, Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Andreas Gursky: Werke/Works 80-08, 2008-2009 (another example illustrated in colour, p. 37). This exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

‘I have a weakness for paradox. For me, the photogenic and the authentic are two characteristics of the medium which would appear to be mutually exclusive. The photogenic allows a picture to develop a life of its own on a two-dimensional surface, which doesn’t exactly reflect the real object’
(A. Gursky, quoted in Fotografen 1994-1998: Andreas Gursky, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, 1998, p. vii).

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