Picture "Ma.r.s. 03" (2012)
Picture "Ma.r.s. 03" (2012)
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limited, 40 copies | numbered | signed | C-print on photographic paper | unframed | size 80 x 64 cm
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Picture "Ma.r.s. 03" (2012)
C-print 2012, edition of 40 copies on photographic paper, numbered and signed on the back. Unframed. Sheet size 80 x 64 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Thomas Ruff
"Art is an intelligent examination of our surroundings," says German photographic artist Thomas Ruff, questioning not only his environment but also photography itself in his work.
Ruff was born in 1958 and studied photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Bernd and Hilla Becher between 1977 and 1985. At the end of the 1980s, he achieved his breakthrough with large-format portraits. Ruff also worked on photographs with the subjects of interiors, buildings and starry skies. Ruff often alienates existing material from various media using digital technology; most recently, he processed NASA photos of the surface of Mars.
Ruff has been exhibiting worldwide for about 40 years, among others in New York and Ghent. In 1992, he took part in the documenta and in 1995 in the Venice Biennale. "Today, Thomas Ruff is one of the best-known photo artists of his generation, with an undisputed top position on the market, where his works are traded like high-priced paintings," wrote the German newspaper Die Zeit in 2013.
A process for producing images by the action of light, which became widely known in 1839. Photography quickly became the basis for the expanding image industry that pushed the manually produced pictures, paintings and drawings aside.
The avant-garde painting adopted photographic form elements, to restore the painting’s rightful significance. In the 1920s, many avant-garde painters devoted themselves to photography. With his photographs and photomontages, called "rayographs", the American painter Man Ray developed new means of expression in modern art.
The Pop Art of the 1960s varied and alienated the public photograph through technical means. The American pop artist Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) is the most famous master of this art movement with his images and image series created in this way.