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Article: Andreas Gursky: Making Things Clear.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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In a traveling exhibition that debuted at MOMA, Gursky's huge, often digitally manipulated photographs reveal his consistent interest in massed details of forms and movement seen from afar.
Andreas Gursky's Stockholder Meeting, Diptych (2001) is the product of a complex and labor-intensive process. Two large panels of digitally convened figures represent some of Germany's largest corporations at an annual meeting that could never be, with a rapt and ghostly audience that fans out in seats ranked along the diptych's base. Their lines of sight lead upward to a disconcerting central mass of snow-encrusted granite. Assembled groups of corporate leaders seated at long ...