News
26.09.2008
“Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek/Andreas Gursky Collection” to be opened in the PinchukArtCentre
September 28 through November 2, 2008 during the Weeks of German Culture in Ukraine PinchukArtCentre presents exhibition Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek/ Andreas Gursky Collection.
Project, which inaugurates the third year of the PinchukArtCentre's activities, is unprecedented in scale, selection of names and media collision per se - moving screen image and photo statics compressing tightly space and time. The exhibits will be hosted by three floors of PinchukArtCentre.
The first large-scale exhibition in Ukraine of renowned German photographer Andreas Gursky will demonstrate 24 mega-photos created from 1987 to 2008.
Also, the will be displayed 18 video installations of selected works of Julia Stoschek Collection.
The third component of the unique international cultural project is a concert of legendary Kraftwerk, pathfinders in electronic music, at the exhibition opening on September 27.
Named "the eye of God", Gursky, has a meta-vision, which is actualized in digital era. Gursky's photo collages depicting fronts of anonymous skyscrapers, vast office spaces, gatherings of stock brokers, huge landscapes, circuits and race cars of Formula 1, interiors of galleries or clubs, strike the audience with their dualism: notwithstanding their hyperrealism one can not believe his eyes that this is reality but not fiction, phantom...
Julia Stoschek has presented her private collection of contemporary art works focusing on the cutting-edge media - video, photography and installation only recently, in 2007, in Dusseldorf at the exhibition Number One: Destroy, She Said. PinchukArtCentre will host works of both artists of classical videoart period of end 60s, namely, Bruce Nauman, and contemporary videoart adepts, such as Christian Jankowski and Robert Boyd, which discover diverse approaches to destruction/creation of the internal/external.
Exhibition Rhine on the Dnipro: Julia Stoschek Collection/Andreas Gursky is open for visits in the PinchukArtCentre September 28 through November 2, 2008. Open hours: 12.00 - 21.00 on Tuesaday-Sunday. No entrance fees.
