11 November 2011
Andreas Gursky's Rhein II sets photo record
“An image of the Rhine by German artist Andreas Gursky has fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's New York, setting an auction record for a photograph.
Glass-mounted panoramic colour print Rhein II, created in 1999, is one of an edition of six works.
Others hang at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern.
Glass-mounted panoramic colour print Rhein II, created in 1999, is one of an edition of six works.
Others hang at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern.
It beat the previous record of $3.9m (£2.5m) achieved by an untitled 1981 colour print by Cindy Sherman, who is the subject of all her own works.
Gursky's print had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5m-$3.5m (£1.6m-£2.2m).
Gursky's print had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5m-$3.5m (£1.6m-£2.2m).
Rhein II is the largest of the six photographs, which are produced in various sizes.
As well as in New York and London, other photographs in the edition are housed in Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne and Glenstone art museum in the US.
Gursky has spoken of "a particular place with a view over the Rhine which has somehow always fascinated me, but it didn't suffice for a picture as it basically constituted only part of a picture".
He said he "carried this idea for a picture around with me for a year-and-a-half".
"In the end I decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me," he added.
Gursky has spoken of "a particular place with a view over the Rhine which has somehow always fascinated me, but it didn't suffice for a picture as it basically constituted only part of a picture".
He said he "carried this idea for a picture around with me for a year-and-a-half".
"In the end I decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me," he added.
Christie's said the viewer was "not invited to consider a specific place along the river, but rather an almost 'platonic' ideal of the body of water as it navigates the landscape".
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In my photo series “Images in the Rhine” I show pictures, which I did not edit as extensively as Andreas Gursky did with his photo. I have perceived and then photographed them out of a special perspective on the river Rhine in Cologne (2010). .
In my photo series “Images in the Rhine” I show pictures, which I did not edit as extensively as Andreas Gursky did with his photo. I have perceived and then photographed them out of a special perspective on the river Rhine in Cologne (2010). .
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This is a video of a slideshow on my PC. It shows some footage from my new photo series "Images in the Rhine." I´m specialized in water-photography and I work since 2003 continuously at my photo project "Images in Water. I would like to draw attention of the viewer at a new facet of this wonderful and fascinating element with its inexhaustible imagery. Due to my trained eye and a carefully selected perspective, I succeed in discovering unique pictures in the swirls, waves and refractions in the water which I capture with my camera. To make these - Images in the Rhine- was a real challenge. When I started, I first saw just a shapeless mass of water, nearly monochromatic. I had to “tame” the river with eye in order to make those Images out of the variety of underwater structures. I am very impressed by the paintings of William Turner and Claude Monet, who have decades long occupied themselves with the element water. William Turner made many trips along the Rhine and made many sketches of it, that served as an inspiration for his paintings. He has made some beautiful views of the Rhine that show Cologne.
On your request,I create an exclusive photo edition for you with „Images in Water“, from a river of your choice.
This is a video of a slideshow on my PC. It shows some footage from my new photo series "Images in the Rhine." I´m specialized in water-photography and I work since 2003 continuously at my photo project "Images in Water. I would like to draw attention of the viewer at a new facet of this wonderful and fascinating element with its inexhaustible imagery. Due to my trained eye and a carefully selected perspective, I succeed in discovering unique pictures in the swirls, waves and refractions in the water which I capture with my camera. To make these - Images in the Rhine- was a real challenge. When I started, I first saw just a shapeless mass of water, nearly monochromatic. I had to “tame” the river with eye in order to make those Images out of the variety of underwater structures. I am very impressed by the paintings of William Turner and Claude Monet, who have decades long occupied themselves with the element water. William Turner made many trips along the Rhine and made many sketches of it, that served as an inspiration for his paintings. He has made some beautiful views of the Rhine that show Cologne.
On your request,I create an exclusive photo edition for you with „Images in Water“, from a river of your choice.
