The world champion of the photography’s equivalent to extreme sports is visiting Denmark.

German Andreas Gursky, who last year set the record, by selling the photo Rhine II for over 2 million pounds, is now exhibiting 45 giant photos at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

On first hand, Gursky’s photo might appear as the aesthetic perfection or even as the perfect picture, but if you step a little closer, you will notice discrepancies – it doesn’t really seem like the actual reality. Gursky is most of the time in, what can be called, an area, which boarders between photography and painting. All of Gursky’s photos are not just simple, lightly edited photos, as we know from some of the classical genres of photography. Most of his photos consist of several photos mixed and matched, edited and manipulated. It is therefore not just photography nor painting, but more like a whole new reality – a reality, the human eye simply wasn’t able to detect.

It is not only the convergence of all the photos, which is the reason for Gursky’s photos being called the photography’s equivalent to extreme sports, it is also the subject and its surroundings as well as the often extreme angles from where the photos are shot.

The exhibition opened January 13th and runs until May 13th – and is one of this year’s must sees!

Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13
DK- 3050 Humlebæk

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Tuesday – Friday 11-22
Saturday and Sunday 11-18
Public Holidays 11-18
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