Gursky

'Thebes, West' 1993

Andreas Gursky
Biog here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/andreas-gursky-2349

There are some ongoing questions or queries that arise as I think about posting this:



* affinity - seeing connections and similarities; is this truthful or just the need to see myself in everything?

* Tate says: "Gursky uses a bird's-eye view to portray the collective behaviour of large social groups." I wonder about abstraction and distancing - the aerial, distancing, over views, seeing patterns and form, being far from the action.

* abstraction and the meditative, calmness, order. Still images, reflection, meditation, only by removing ourselves?

* the need to explain, a way to explain, using language to images, posting with language, how to passage from the production and the reception, packaging. Staying truthful to the intention. Telling you this.