Zoom
w.h.s.05
2001
Thomas Ruff
Photography
180 x 240 cm – Edition 3/5
The "w.s.h. 05 series" was created during the restoration of the Esters and Lange houses, built in Krefeld at the end of the 1920s by Mies van der Rohe, one of the pioneers of German modernist architecture. Through the technique of blurring, the reference to the real fades away in favor of abstraction.
Born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany
At the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Thomas Ruff was a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, German photographers renowned for their focus on industrial heritage, whose principles he applied to make architecture one of his primary subjects. He maintains the same detachment, purposefully excluding any emotional elements. This overt objectivity also suggests that photography, by its very nature, is manipulative.
Artwork of
Thomas Ruff
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