Icons of German postwar photography, Bernd and Hilla Bechers’ joint artistic practice meticulously documented industrial architecture across Europe and North America. Their photography simultaneously distils each construction into a taxonomy of visually and functionally homogeneous structures, whilst emphasising the particular and eccentric character of each. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring several groupings of the artists’ most recognisable archetypal forms: gas tanks, water towers, winding towers and framework houses. This will be their first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London, in over a decade, marking the first since Hilla Becher’s passing in 2015. In recognition of this fact, the five gas tanks that commence the exhibition are from Great Britain, several from London specifically.
