Andreas Gursky. Shanghai. 2000.
Chromogenic colour print. (280 x 200 cm)
The artworks of the artist Andreas Gursky have long been an interest of mine. Gursky's work, it has been written, "is a sophisticated art of unembellished observation. It is thanks to the artfulness of Gursky's fictions that we recognise his world as our own." I recall similar comments being made in first class of the semester.
But I decided to post this image simply because of the coincidence that Gursky exhibited this artwork only a few years prior to the release of Code 46. And, to let you know, if Gursky's work is or becomes an interest, that they are doing a retrospective of his work at the NGV (International) in Melbourne in November.
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Given our discussion of utopian spaces and architecture and how they might determine the inhabitants who live within them, this image seems to combine both uniformity and sensuality, something both visually pleasurable and reassuringly standardised.What types of people would it create, allow, prohibit?
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