Thomas Ruff
Kiállítások
Surfaces, Depths
Helyszín: Kunsthalle Wien
Időtartam: 2009.05.21. – 2009.09.13.
With Thomas Ruff. Surfaces, Depths, the Kunsthalle Wien presents the first comprehensive survey of one of the most important photographers of his generation in Austria. Ruff (*1958, lives in Düsseldorf, Germany) received his technically sound training in the craft of photography at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts from 1977 to 1985,
graduating as an internationally renowned student of the Bechers besides Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, and Thomas Struth. In his work, Ruff focuses on a wide range of everyday subjects, on people, architecture, the universe, and the Internet. The photographer strikes us as a sharp and concentrated observer of his motifs. To him,
objectivity is nothing neutral though, but has to be redefined with each new photograph. The series of portraits which Ruff started on in 1986, for example, fascinates us because of the determined emotionlessness displayed by his models that are mostly close to him. Ruff's approach guarantees a hyper-precise, chirurgic gaze reproducing
everything down to the last detail as equivalent. It also illustrates the degree of the artist's interest in the history of the medium of photography and how much he reflects on it.
The show in Vienna will offer a representative selection of works from Thomas Ruff's production that spans about 25 years. Its analytical focus will be on 10 from altogether 18 work groups, the antagonism of surface and depth in its manifold forms constituting the thematic pivot and central thread. While we come upon the metaphor of the surface in his portraits and interiors, his photographs of apparatuses for generating composite pictures and his telescope and space probe pictures are formally determined by infinity and depth.
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