I’ve invested in a National Art Pass this year (having taken advantage of their offer of 3 months for £10 last summer). On a recent trip to London, I used it to visit the Andreas Gursky retrospective at the newly re-opened Hayward Gallery on the South Bank.
Gursky’s Mega-photos have been on my radar since I spotted one at Tate Modern and saw this documentary (BBC’s The Art Show, back in 2002).
Ben Lewis – Gursky World from TofuTasties on Vimeo.
The German photographer’s work is in hyper-real high-definition, often a lot trickier than it at first appears. The starkness of the images really suited the Brutalist architecture of the Hayward, a gallery that should be cold and car-park like, but somehow manages to be light and spacious and perfect for contemporary art.
I enjoyed the show, but this particular photo, of JMW Turner paintings, made me start looking at how the pictures were hung and who was looking at them…
![Andreas Gursky: Turner Collection 1995.](https://thelucybrouwer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Turner-by-Gursky-1-1024x703.jpg)
![Andreas Gursky: Antarctic](https://thelucybrouwer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gursky-arctic-1024x904.jpg)
![Andreas Gursky: Tokyo, Stock Exchange,](https://thelucybrouwer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Tokyo-Stock-Exchange-1024x895.jpg)
![Andreas Gurksy:Bahrain I'](https://thelucybrouwer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Race-track-532x1024.jpg)