Thomas Ruff
07 May - 26 Jun 2010
THOMAS RUFF
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May 7 - June 26, 2010
Opening: Friday, May 7 2010, 6 - 9 pm
Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Ruff introducing his series "Cassini".
In his photo series "Sterne" (1989-1992) Thomas Ruff addresses the topic of astro-photography. The raw material for this series was taken from scientific images in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) image archive. The photographed objects, faint far away stars, galaxies and stellar phenomena usually invisible to the naked eye, have been taken with special telescopes and printed from the original negatives.
Since 2004 the NASA space probe Cassini, named after Italian atronomer Giovanni Cassini, has been transmitting spectacular images of Saturn and its satellites. Thomas Ruff digitally manipulates these images for his "Cassini" series by modifying colours, shifting contrast and selecting image details. Scientific "objective" photography turns into an aestheticised, somewhat abstract and hyperreal image.
In addition to "Cassini", images will be on view from Thomas Ruff’s "Zycles" series (2008-2009) which deal with the visualization of electromagnetic waves after James Clerk Maxwell. The artist digitally translated the mathematic functions by distorting and twisting graphs and curves into 3D.
"Space... the Final Frontier. (...) to boldly go where no man has gone before." This phrase taken from the title sequence of Gene Roddenberry’s "Star Trek" might characterise the fascination with the hardly observable or the unseeable in the dark void of the universe. But Thomas Ruff’s approach towards the image puts forth a view beyond classic camera work and the reproduction of "reality". The artist-photographer is reflecting upon the grammar and the apparatus (dispositif) of photography introducing new ways both of seeing and the understanding of seeing.
Neue Arbeiten
May 7 - June 26, 2010
Opening: Friday, May 7 2010, 6 - 9 pm
Konrad Fischer Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Dusseldorf-based artist Thomas Ruff introducing his series "Cassini".
In his photo series "Sterne" (1989-1992) Thomas Ruff addresses the topic of astro-photography. The raw material for this series was taken from scientific images in the European Southern Observatory (ESO) image archive. The photographed objects, faint far away stars, galaxies and stellar phenomena usually invisible to the naked eye, have been taken with special telescopes and printed from the original negatives.
Since 2004 the NASA space probe Cassini, named after Italian atronomer Giovanni Cassini, has been transmitting spectacular images of Saturn and its satellites. Thomas Ruff digitally manipulates these images for his "Cassini" series by modifying colours, shifting contrast and selecting image details. Scientific "objective" photography turns into an aestheticised, somewhat abstract and hyperreal image.
In addition to "Cassini", images will be on view from Thomas Ruff’s "Zycles" series (2008-2009) which deal with the visualization of electromagnetic waves after James Clerk Maxwell. The artist digitally translated the mathematic functions by distorting and twisting graphs and curves into 3D.
"Space... the Final Frontier. (...) to boldly go where no man has gone before." This phrase taken from the title sequence of Gene Roddenberry’s "Star Trek" might characterise the fascination with the hardly observable or the unseeable in the dark void of the universe. But Thomas Ruff’s approach towards the image puts forth a view beyond classic camera work and the reproduction of "reality". The artist-photographer is reflecting upon the grammar and the apparatus (dispositif) of photography introducing new ways both of seeing and the understanding of seeing.