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Thomas Ruff 東京首次大型回顧展

Thomas Ruff,《Porträt (P. Stadtbäumer)》,1988年,C-print,210 x 165cm | ©Thomas Ruff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016
Thomas Ruff,《Porträt (P. Stadtbäumer)》,1988年,C-print,210 x 165cm | ©Thomas Ruff / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016

德國攝影藝術家 Thomas Ruff 八月底在東京國立近代美術館的展出,是首次於日本舉辦的大型回顧展。Thomas Ruff 於1958年在德國巴登-符騰堡州出生,畢業於杜塞道夫美術學院(Düsseldorf Art Academy),師事著名的藝術家貝克夫婦(Bernd and Hilla Becher)。1980年代 Thomas Ruff 以一系列肖像作品《Porträts》獲得矚目。在這個系列中,他拍攝類似證件照的肖像,去除被拍攝者的人格特質線索,並將照片放大達兩公尺高,一覽無遺的人物臉孔細節在巨幅照片的呈現下全面包裏著觀者,引起攝影獨特的機械性美學思索,並成為當代攝影採用大尺寸彩色照片表現的先驅。

此後,Ruff 擴展了更多元的創作主題,包含建築、城市景觀、裸像及天體等,同時持續嘗試各種視覺語言,從運用網路數位圖片,到蒐集而來的實體老照片,探索著現代社會多樣化的影像觀。在《other Portraits》(1994-1995)系列中他使用1970年代德國警方合成罪犯人像的機器來合成出根本不存在的人物肖像,以此進行攝影與真實的討論,並反映現代社會的監控文化。數位時代展開後,網路圖像也成為 Ruff 的創作元素,例如他擷取網路上的新聞照片,壓縮並放大成佈滿有如馬賽克數位格狀畫面的《JPEG》系列(2009),對數位影像的物質性進行解構。

Thomas Ruff 的創作方法隨時代推進,視覺與感知在作品中交織,他的關注核心始終在於思考攝影的本質與可能性。本展將呈現 Ruff 完整的創作歷程,預計展出他的18個系列共125件作品,包括《Porträts》、《NUDES》、《JPEG》、《Substrate》等,以及他未曾公開發表過的作品。此外,Ruff 近期的系列創作《press++》以早期印刷媒介上的照片、文字資料製成作品,這次也將以日本讀賣新聞社提供的新聞照片為素材,製作4件新作。

Thomas Ruff 個展
トーマス・ルフ展

時間 Date | 2016.08.30- 2016.11.13
地點 Venue | 東京國立近代美術館 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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Thomas Ruff (born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany) has been a leading figure in contemporary photography since the 1990s when he emerged as part of the Becher School. Along with Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, Ruff studied photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

The exhibition introduces a wide range of works by this world-renowned photographer, stretching from his earliest efforts to his most recent and never-before-shown photographs. Ruff was first acclaimed for a series of huge two-meter-high portraits. Since then, he has explored a variety of themes, including architecture, urban landscapes, nudes, and celestial bodies. Through these subjects, he has developed a unique vision of the world we live in.

The medium of photography, closely entwined with our vision and perception, is another important theme in Ruff’s work. He searches for new possibilities in photographic expression using a multitude of images as his materials. These not only include Ruff’s own pictures but everything from digital images from the Internet to old photographs he has collected.

The exhibition was organized with the full cooperation of the artist, who among other things was involved in selecting the works and designing the display structure. It will present the entire scope of Thomas Ruff’s practice, including a number of new and never-before-shown works.

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