Reinhard Görner
Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
2014

Name: Rose Main Reading Room (New York Public Library)
Brand: Reinhard Görner
Price: 11000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Rose Main Reading Room, 2014 Public Library New York 70 x 88.9 inches Ed. of 5 60 x 76.2 inches Ed. of 7 50 x 63.5 Ed. of 10 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles’s ceremonial rooms have an edge on Renaissance paintings; here even a sense of world history arises within the viewer – one which continues to exert an influence today." Horst Klöver

Creator:

Reinhard Görner (1950, German)

Creation Year:

2014

Dimensions:

Height: 70 in (177.8 cm)Width: 88.9 in (225.81 cm)

Medium:

Lambda

Movement & Style:

Conceptual

Period:

21st Century