Andreas Gursky at Hayward Gallery: 68 Works Spanning 1980 to Present

The Hayward Gallery in London reopens after renovations with a major Andreas Gursky exhibition, the first in its 50th-anniversary celebrations. The show features 68 photographs from 1980 onward, including eight new works. Renovations now allow natural light through a pyramidal prism roof into one of the main galleries. Iconic works include Paris, Montparnasse (1993), Rhine II (1999-2015), Kamiokande (2007), and May Day IV (2000-2014). New works include Pyongyang VI (2007-2017) and Pyongyang VII (2007-2017) documenting North Korea's Mass Games, plus smartphone experiments like Utah (2017), shot from a moving car. Other highlights: Chicago Board of Trade III (2009), Prada II (1997), Amazon (2016), and 99 Cent II (2001). Gursky has recently explored postproduction and manipulation, creating deliberately fake images such as Review (2015) showing Angela Merkel and predecessors viewing Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis, and F1 Pit Stop I (2007) with multiplied mechanics. The exhibition runs through April 22, 2018.