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Andreas Gursky — Chicago, Mercantile Exchange
Andreas Gursky

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

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Contemporary Art Evening Sale

June 29, 2015

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Andreas Gursky, 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
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Financial Subject Matter, Financial Architecture, Conceptual Photography, German Artist, Contemporary Photographer, Large Format Photography, Urban Interior, Male Artist, Conceptual Art, Photorealism, Large Format Print, Chromogenic Print, Late 20th Century, Cool Color Palette, Overwhelming Scale

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