Andreas Gursky's Shift from Figural to Cosmic Networks

Andreas Gursky's work abandons both figural and formless approaches, focusing instead on trajectories, scintillations, and connections over bodies, contours, and identities. His photography exclusively explores the cosmos and the evolution of the universe. Gursky's predecessors include Jackson Pollock for his network-like energy entanglements and J.M.W. Turner for his solar and oceanic thermodynamics. A thematic parallel is also drawn with Pieter Bruegel the Elder, who shared a passion for countless multiplicities and dancing particles.