About the artist
Andreas Gurksy
“I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical… Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.”
German artist Andreas Gursky is best known for his large-scale digital images. His photographs capture artificial and natural landscapes in modern life, on a grand scale. In his lithographic print Ohne Titel XX, which is derived from his aerial photography of a Dutch Tulip Farm, Gursky investigates how the repetition of thousands of manicured rows of tulips can be transformed into abstract art, namely through their portrayal as graphic pixels on paper. Through the artist’s process, we read this image, initially taken from the natural world, as akin to minimalist stripe paintings. Like his large-scale photographs, this print is about both a real and a constructed world, a representative document of a scene and highly aestheticised.