Untitled (Tree Nursery), Neuss

Artist Andreas Gefeller (German, born 1970)

Date2005

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsOverall: 49 × 102 inches (124.46 × 259.08 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2007.21.16

Signedsigned on verso

Edition/State/Proofed. 3/8

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DescriptionThis color image is a view of trees in a nursery, taken from below, shown in various stages of foliation. Meticulously detailed, individual images are brought together digitally, and arranged in a gridlike pattern against a stark white background so that they appear as abstract patterns of shape and form.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Andreas Gefeller: Supervisions. Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, NY, February 22 - April 14, 2007, no cat.

Human/Nature: Recent European Landscape Photography. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 28 – October 5, 2008.

Rotation 27. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 23, 2019–February 2, 2020, no cat.

Gallery Label

Andreas Gefeller uses the camera as a tool of truth and deception, challenging the boundaries of perception. To create this work of art, he pointed his camera upward, taking hundreds of images as he walked through a tree nursery. He digitally combined these captures of young trees in various stages of foliation. The final photograph is an impossible view in which we interpret the white of the cloudy sky as snow-covered ground. Gefeller produces an image that fluctuates between detailed representation and complete abstraction.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2007;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2007.

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