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  • “We aim to create a new form of an ideal perspective filled with deeper information than you can get at the original site.”
    —Markus Brunetti

    German artist Markus Brunetti (b.1965) pushes boundaries of photographic scale, detail and precision in his approach to documenting architecture. Since 2005, Brunetti has travelled across Europe with his partner, Betty Schöner, living and working in their ‘expedition truck’ (a mobile computer lab), carefully recording religious landmarks for his series FACADES. His meticulous image-making process involves photographing the facade one square metre at a time from a fixed point then over a period of weeks to even years, reconstructing it digitally by stitching up to 2,000 images together and removing all signs of modern life. ‘When capturing, I deconstruct the facades to the smallest unit’ explains Brunetti, ‘and when mounting the large images on our computer screens, we put these small details back into the big picture’. Measuring three metres high, the resulting work offered here, is a monumental, mesmerisingly detailed view of the Cologne Cathedral, the largest Gothic church in northern Europe with its immense twin spires. The artist’s works reside in numerous institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City and the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle. 

     

     

    Exhibition install of FACADES at Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, 2016. 
    • Provenance

      Directly from the artist, 2014

    • Exhibited

      Markus Brunetti, FACADES, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, 19 June - 16 October 2016, another

    • Literature

      'Divine Intervention', Travel & Leisure, September 2016, p. 116

ULTIMATE

61

Köln Hohe Domkirche St. Petrus from FACADES

2008-2014
Archival pigment print, mounted.
Image: 288 x 138 cm (113 3/8 x 54 3/8 in.)
Frame: 305.6 x 156 cm (120 3/8 x 61 3/8 in.)

Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/9 in pencil on an artist label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

This work is number 4 from the sold-out edition of 9 + 2 APs. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa holds a print from this edition.

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£25,000 - 35,000 ‡♠

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