Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Andreas Gursky<br />
Bangkok<br />
Andreas Gursky’s new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gursky’s photos depict the dark, moving water of<br />
Thailand’s Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting. Indeed these<br />
photos are reminiscent of some of the most recognisable examples of Modernist Abstraction such as the work of Hans<br />
Arp, but they also echo the more hostile patterns of military camouflage. Seductively beautiful on the first glance, it is<br />
only in time that the rubbish of civilisation becomes recognisable floating on the surface of the river – the flotsam of a<br />
threatening reality moving upon colourful reflections. Gursky alludes to the ecological problems that jeopardise Bangkok,<br />
and which shortly after these images were made, culminated in the widespread flooding that devastated great parts of<br />
Thailand.<br />
Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, is one of the most important contemporary photographers. He studied at the<br />
Folkwangschule in Essen, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Bernd and Hilla Becher.<br />
Exhibition: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 23 September <strong>2012</strong> to 13 January <strong>2013</strong><br />
Co-published with Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf<br />
Andreas Gursky<br />
Bangkok<br />
Texts by Hans Irrek, Beat Wismer and John Yau<br />
Book design by Adeline Morlon<br />
112 pages<br />
8.7 x 11.4 in. / 22 x 29 cm<br />
12 large-format Bangkok plates, 12 specially prepared<br />
details on translucent paper, and 40 illustrations<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with a cut out hole in the cover<br />
€ 38.00 / £ 30.00 / US$ 48.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-554-7<br />
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