Mayday V
| Mayday V |
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| Andreas Gursky , 2006 |
| Dye transfer |
| 324 x 217.9 cm |
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Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
Link to the picture |
Mayday V (5) is a picture published in 2006 by the German photographer Andreas Gursky . The 324 × 217.9 cm measured dye-transfer -deduction shows the glass facade of Dortmund he Westfalenhalle 1 during the annual Techno -party Mayday . The photo montage is part of a series of photos, but is the only one showing the hall from the outside. The exhibition venue is the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam .
Content and conception
The photographs were taken within five hours using a crane and were later put together using a computer. The real Westfalenhalle has only four floors, while in the picture it appears as an 18-story tower, a kind of visual implementation of the musical sampling . According to Gursky, the picture is not true in the strict sense , but it is true and in a conversation with Zeit editor Christoph Amend : The music is just as reduced as my pictures. Techno parties stretch the moment to a whole night. With my pictures I also work against the moment, I stretch time.
According to Gursky, today's digital technology has long since eliminated the difference between photography and classical painting, because with the help of technology photography can emancipate itself from simple depiction and create its own new reality. The oversized format and the simultaneous high resolution create a contradiction that is also known from old master paintings (example: Tower of Babel ) . When viewed as a whole, the numerous details become blurred, while when viewed more closely, the overall context is lost.
Gursky immortalized himself in the picture together with the DJ WestBam and the writer Rainald Goetz .
reception
New York magazine critic Jerry Saltz found the picture annoying and "over-clever" and speculated about whether Gursky was running out of ideas.
Maximilian Lenz (WestBam) writes in the web edition of the BZ : When I looked up to the glass front of the Westfalenhallen, I noticed that the Westfalenhalle is only three-story, much narrower than that of Gursky, and almost disappointingly puffy. And only then did I understand how many floors Gursky had invented, how much reality he had compressed, composed and piled up just so that everything is as it appears to us in our dreams and ideas.
Use and place of issue
The image appeared as a key visual on the poster and the tickets for Mayday 2006 and as a CD cover.
The 324 × 217.9 cm print was exhibited along with other works by Gursky at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York . In November 2009, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam acquired the work.
literature
- Florian Heine With the eyes of the painter. Schauplätze der Kunst rediscovered , Chapter: Mayday V , pp. 157 to 161 ISBN 978-3-7658-1612-3
Web links
- Bulletin 3 - Jaargang 19 (2009) - Frankfurt en Mayday V - Andreas Gursky ( Memento from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, Dutch, with image of the photo on page 4; 1.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Florian Heine: With the eyes of the painter. Rediscovered arenas of art . Munich: C. J. Bucher Verlag 2009 ISBN 978-3-7658-1612-3 pp. 157 to 161
- ↑ a b Stedelijk koopt twee werken aan van Andreas Gursky / Stedelijk acquires two works by Andreas Gursky ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at smcs.nl, accessed on November 25, 2013
- ↑ a b Zeit Online : Atelier visit to Andreas Gursky: Gursky Earth . Article of April 28, 2010 (ZEITmagazin Nº 18/2010), accessed on June 2, 2014
- ↑ It's Boring at the Top in New York Art Magazine, about Gursky's work, illustrated with the image Mayday V , accessed on March 7, 2011
- ↑ bz-berlin.de : BZ-Kulturpreis: Gursky, more real than real . Article dated January 28, 2009, accessed June 2, 2014
- ↑ lifepr.de press release: Westfalenhalle 1 in an illustrated book by a star photographer , accessed on January 17, 2016
- ↑ Mayday 2006 with the motto Worldclub ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
