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Die Galerie Stefan Röpke is pleased to present its third exhibition of large-format photographs by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky at the gallery, on view April 13 to June 4, 2011. As with his previous bodies of work, Burtynsky continues to investigate and document man's "footprint" as he changes the global landscape in his quest for and extraction of the world's natural resources. For this exhibition, the artist bridges his focus on Oil that had been the subject matter of his last monograph published by Steidl, to Water. Focusing specifically on the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Burtynksy creates an important and influential body of photographic work, vividly presenting the risks and the high price we pay for our dependency on oil as our resources from the oceans are affected as a result. Burtynsky's photographs are meant to be metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. We are drawn by desire - a chance for good living, yet we are consciously or subconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our luxuries. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. These images function as reflecting pools of our times! Burtynsky's photographs are included in the collections of numerous major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Canada, Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam and the Altana Stiftung in Bad Homburg.
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 Photographe(s) Edward Burtynsky Galerie Stefan Röpke St. Apern-Straße 17-21 50667 Cologne Allemagne  Voir tous les lieuxDu 13/4/2011 au 4/6/2011 Statut : expositions terminé 
  
 
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