书名：Thomas Ruff: Stellar Landscapes / 托马斯·鲁夫：星尘风景
定价：310.0
ISBN：9783868282610
作者：Melanie Bono, Thomas Palzer
版次：1
出版时间：2011-01

内容提要：

书名：Thomas Ruff: Stellar Landscapes / 托马斯·鲁夫：星尘风景

作者：Melanie Bono, Thomas Palzer

出版：Kehrer，2011年

装帧：精装，144页

语种：英文

尺寸：21*28 cm

 

 

托马斯·鲁夫是当代德国摄影界在国际上最具知名度的艺术家之一。通过二十余组摄影系列创作，他以独到的方式探索并重新界定了这一媒介的边界。

 

本图录重点聚焦托马斯·鲁夫的四组系列作品：1989至1992年间创作的《星空》系列、2007年的《循环》系列、2008/2009年的《卡西尼》系列，以及首次在美术馆机构亮相的《ma.r.s.》系列新作。同时展出的还包括艺术家其他系列中探索相似主题的个别作品。自1989年起，托马斯·鲁夫不再亲自拍摄和冲印照片，转而利用现成图像进行创作。他的作品始终围绕对摄影媒介本质结构与内涵的质询。本次展出的所有作品均以科学图像为源材料，其中多数可通过互联网公开获取。在《星空》系列中，鲁夫仅对原始照片进行局部选取，而在新系列中则对源材料进行了更深入的加工：针对《卡西尼》与《ma.r.s.》系列，他运用美国宇航局多个航天任务拍摄的图像，通过数字修片、色彩调整、对比度处理和裁剪重构等手法进行再创作。

 

鲁夫对原本写实的黑白图像进行色彩赋予，使其焕发全新特质：这些作品既带有绘画般的质感，又呈现出抽象的美学意境，成为观者想象力驰骋的载体。

 

Thomas Ruff is one of the most internationally well known contemporary German photographers. Over the course of two dozen photography series, he has explored and defined the mediums limits like no other contemporary artist.

 

The catalog focuses specifically on four of Thomas Ruffs series: the "stars" series, produced between 1989 and 1992, "zycles" from 2007, the "cassini" series from 2008/2009, and recent work from the "ma.r.s." series, shown now for the first time in an institutional context. Individual works from other series that explore a similar theme are also shown. Since 1989, Thomas Ruff stopped taking and printing his own photographs in order to work with existing materials. His work is primarily concerned with questions that investigate the structure and content of the medium. Scientific images are the source material for all the photographs shown, and many of them were freely accessible via the internet. While Thomas Ruffs work for the stars series was limited to selecting details from photographs, he took a heavier hand in processing the source material in his new series: for the "cassini" and "ma.r.s". series, Thomas Ruff utilised pictures from various NASA missions. He digitally retouched them, altered the colours, manipulated contrast and cropping.

 

Ruffs colouration of the original realistic, black and white pictures gives them a new character: they become painterly, aesthetic pictures whose abstract beauty serves as a surface for our imaginations.