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Thursday, March 29 I went to MOMA last weekend to see the Andreas Gursky show, and "Workspheres". Gursky was good, what I expected, but Workspheres was disappointing. You couldn't help but feel that the designers and curators of the show were projecting their own particular type of work environment into a vision of how all workplaces should and will be. It seemed exclusionary and almost insulting to be told, confidingly, that "most of us" go each (week)day to a eight-hour office job that consists mainly of processing information, with the help of advanced technology. -- but the message to all such people seemed to be that you're living in the past, doomed to obsolescence (or at best, doomed to trail behind the info-industry's innovations). |
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Thursday, March 29 I went to MOMA last weekend to see the Andreas Gursky show, and "Workspheres". Gursky was good, what I expected, but Workspheres was disappointing. You couldn't help but feel that the designers and curators of the show were projecting their own particular type of work environment into a vision of how all workplaces should and will be. It seemed exclusionary and almost insulting to be told, confidingly, that "most of us" go each (week)day to a eight-hour office job that consists mainly of processing information, with the help of advanced technology. -- but the message to all such people seemed to be that you're living in the past, doomed to obsolescence (or at best, doomed to trail behind the info-industry's innovations). |
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His most successful student project, for example, was an extended series of sober, uniformly composed photographs of security guards in the lobbies of office buildings. In 1984, however, Gursky began to free himself from the strict Becher model. Even as the new American color work helped Gursky to chart a path away from the Bechers, their lessons persisted through his adherence to an unvarying pictorial type - a broad prospect populated by tiny figures who are surveyed by a godlike eye that is everywhere and nowhere at once. As Gursky repeated this pattern of artistic development in the years to come, responding to a widening range of imagery and ideas without wholly abandoning his earlier attachments, the resilient core of his work became more and more his own. . |
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His most successful student project, for example, was an extended series of sober, uniformly composed photographs of security guards in the lobbies of office buildings. In 1984, however, Gursky began to free himself from the strict Becher model. Even as the new American color work helped Gursky to chart a path away from the Bechers, their lessons persisted through his adherence to an unvarying pictorial type - a broad prospect populated by tiny figures who are surveyed by a godlike eye that is everywhere and nowhere at once. As Gursky repeated this pattern of artistic development in the years to come, responding to a widening range of imagery and ideas without wholly abandoning his earlier attachments, the resilient core of his work became more and more his own. . |
A site I really like: http://www.artincontext.org/new_york/andrea_rosen_gallery/exhibiting_or_offering.htm