Andreas Gefeller - Photographs London Friday, October 25, 2019 | Phillips

Photographs

London Auction 25 October 2019

  • Exhibited

    Andreas Gefeller – Photographs, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, 6 June – 19 July 2009; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, 11 February - 18 April, 2010; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, 30 January - 13 March, 2011, another
    Aspects of Dissolving Images – Works of Photography by Andreas Gefeller, Fabian Marti and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, 25 June - 9 October 2016, another

  • Literature

    Andreas Gefeller: Photographs, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009, pp. 44-46

  • Catalogue Essay

    This intricate sandscape from Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions series (2002-13) is a meticulously and seamlessly constructed digital assemblage. Carrying his tripod-affixed, downward-facing camera in front of him, Gefeller photographed step by step across the sandy surface, accumulating approximately 100 individual shots, which were later stitched together to create a richly detailed image. ‘I’m starting to survey the ground,’ notes Gefeller, ‘I as a satellite and the ground beneath me as the alien surface of the planet Mars, except that instead of being hundreds of kilometres above ground, it’s only two metres.’ What appears at first to be an abstract composition reminiscent of a lunar landscape uncovers, on closer investigation, the mesmerising details of individual footprints, shoe logos and small pieces of debris found on the sand. Dusseldorf-based Gefeller has exhibited widely and his work resides in such prominent institutions as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach.

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Andreas Gefeller

Untitled (Sandtracks), Miami from Supervisions

2008
Archival pigment print, flush-mounted.
Image: 133.4 x 160 cm (52 1/2 x 62 1/1 in.)
Frame: 156 x 204.2 cm (61 3/8 x 80 3/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered AP2 in ink on the reverse of the frame.

This work is AP2 from the sold-out edition of 8 + 3 APs. This image exists only in this size and edition.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 ♠

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Photographs

London Auction 25 October 2019