
Chicago, Mercantile Exchange
A vast, teeming aerial view of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor captures the overwhelming scale and frenetic energy of global capitalism in action. Gursky's signature large-format photography transforms the dense mass of traders, paperwork, and electronic displays into an almost abstract tapestry of color and pattern. The artist's meticulous digital manipulation heightens the image's sense of visual intensity, blurring the line between documentary record and constructed spectacle.
- Medium
- chromogenic print, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
June 29, 2015
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