As Jeff Wall remarked about this retrospective at the press conference, it’s most likely the biggest show he’ll ever have. And, indeed, with seventy-two works “Jeff Wall: Photographs, 1978–2004” brought together more than half of the artist’s oeuvre. Given that most of us were used to seeing no more than a few of Wall’s large light-box transparencies at a time, one might have wondered how the individual pieces would hold up in such numbers. Thanks to the architecture of Herzog & de Meuron, and above all to the artist’s precise sense of size and scale, the works did not detract from each other