Word: autobahn
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...Deceptively simple, Gursky's images fail to come apart with attempts at interpretation. A rendering of two divergent ramps off the Autobahn, for example, might be painfully boring if the ramps weren't, on second glance, so unsettling (where do they lead? why are they empty?). By pausing to reconsider the banality of these and other objects, edifices and locations, he challenges and transcends the literal gaze. Thus, a gridded ceiling, shot at such an angle as to show only the aureoles of light created by the implied light bulbs, becomes an immense tapestry of light and shadow--something more...