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Edward Burtynsky 'Water: Photographs 2009 - 2013' Jan 31, 2014 - Mar 15, 2013
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Edward Burtynsky
All American Canal, West of Yuma, California, USA, 2009
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Edward Burtynsky
Bay of Cadiz, Spain, 2013
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Edward Burtynsky
Benidorm #2, Spain, 2010
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Edward Burtynsky
Colorado River Delta #4, Sonora, Mexico, 2011
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Edward Burtynsky
Kumbh Mela #1, Haridwar, India, 2010
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Edward Burtynsky
Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India, 2013
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Exhibition 31.01.2014 – 15.03.2014
Opening 30.01.2014, 7pm
in Collaboration with Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln
WATERMARK: Movie Screening: 9 February 2014, 3.45pm / Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlinale 2014
As part of this year’s Berlinale, the film WATERMARK by Edward Burtynsky will be
screened on 9 February 2014, at 3.45pm, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Afterwards cocktail reception in the gallery, Edward Burtynsky will be present. Please
contact us, invitation needed.
Galerie Springer Berlin presents the Canadian photographer
Edward Burtynsky
We are pleased to present Canadian Photographer Edward
Burtynsky. After his well renown OIL in 2012 at cIo Berlin we are showing a selection of
work from his latest series WATER, in collaboration with Galerie Stefan Röpke,
Cologne. Along with the film WATERMARK and the BURTYNSKY – WATER book (Steidl),
it is Mr Burtynsky’s largest project to date, documenting the scale and impact of
manufacturing and consumption on the world’s water supplies. Burtynsky chronicles
the various roles that water plays in modern life – as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious rituals and as a rapidly depleting
resource. The photographs, both beautiful and haunting, create a compelling global portrait that illustrates humanity’s past, present and future relationship with the
natural world.
Shooting in ten different countries for the WATER project, Burtynsky’s subjects include
dry-land farming in Spain, pivot irrigation sites in Texas, and the 2010 oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico. In these instances, Burtynsky took to the air using conventional
helicopters, remote controlled helicopters and small fixed-wing aircraft, to bring the
scale of the human imprint into a more meaningful perspective.
He also travelled to photograph millions of people bathing in the cleansing power of
the sacred Ganges River in India; mega-dam construction on the upper Yangtze and the
once-a-year silt release on the Yellow River in China, the precious virgin watersheds of
British Columbia and the dry beds of the Colorado River Delta.
Heide and Robert Springer
About Edward Burtynsky
Born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage at St Catharine’s, Ontario, Burtynsky is a graduate of
Ryerson University (Bachelor of Applied Arts in Photography) and studied Graphic Art at
Niagara College in Welland.
Mr. Burtynsky’s distinctions include: the TED Prize, The Outreach award at the Rencontres
d’Arles, The Flying Elephant Fellowship, Applied Arts Magazine book award(s), and the Roloff
Beny Book award. In 2006 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Canada and holds
four honorary doctorate degrees, with a fifth to be awarded in 2013.
Edward Burtynsky’s works are in the collections of over 50 museums worldwide, including the
Museum of Modern Art and Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern,
London; the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; and the National Gallery of Canada. Burtynsky
received the inaugural TED Prize in 2005, named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006,
and in 2012, he won the prestigious Tiffany Mark Award for his philanthropic endeavours.
Edward Burtynsky lives in Toronto, Canada.
About Galerie Springer Berlin
The programme focuses on photography and comprises a group of international artists whose
works form insightful dialogues. Besides four to six exhibitions in Berlin and the participation in
leading national and international art fairs, our activities are completed by support service for
private and public collections. Gallery artists include, amongst others: Andy Goldsworthy, Anna
Lehmann-Brauns, Arnold Odermatt, Catherine Gfeller, Denmark (Marc Robbroeckx), Edward
Burtynsky, Georges Rousse, Lohner Carlson, Wiebke Elzel and Jana Müller. The gallery works
amongst others, with A. R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Herbert Hamak in the art
trade. The gallery was founded in 1991 in Frankfurt (Main) as Springer & Winckler Galerie. In
1998 it moved to Berlin into the spaces of Rudolf Springer, Robert Springer’s father, who retired
at this time after 50 years of gallery activity and art dealing. Since 2012 the gallery is led by
Heide and Robert Springer as GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN, a name full of tradition.
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