Stern 01h 06m/-25
The Sterne series is not made up of photographs taken by Ruff himself but were instead acquired from the archives of the European Southern Observatory in the Andes, Chile.
Thomas Ruff
Germany, 1958
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Thomas Ruff (b.1958) is a German photographer who has become known as the “master of edited and reimagined images” (The Economist, 2017). He has exhibited his nebulous, colourful photography at some of the most important galleries and museums around the world, including the MoMA. His subject matter ranges from domestic scenes to interplanetary images from NASA; from portraits to warped representations of modernist architecture.
Ruff’s contribution to the Nicole Brachetti Peretti Collection is a photography series, Sterne (1980), which captures the magnitude and beauty of the night sky. The romantic, awe-inspiring images are each arguments themselves for the boundaryless conception of art: This series comprises one of the many intersections of art and science. The Sterne series is not made up of photographs taken by Ruff himself but were instead acquired from the archives of the European Southern Observatory in the Andes, Chile. At their very essence, the photographs are studies in light and time, two essential elements of the art of photography, making these images somewhat fundamental in nature.