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 Copyright the artist | | | Ruff, Thomas (1958 - )
Germany
Carol Pillar, 1989
Colour photograph;
215.9 x 165.1 cm
80's
UID 102-503
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Biography
German photographer who studied at the Dusseldorf Academy between 1977 and 1985, under Becher. He did single portraits of his family and friends and large coloured portraits of heads in a sober, documentary-like style. After 1987, he photographed German buildings selected according to his personal interest, rather than their style or characteristics. In 1988, he received a fund for young artists awarded by the Nordrhein-Westfalen state and, in 1989, he produced black and white photographs of the night sky using material from the South Europe Observatory. In 1992, he participated in the Documenta 9 in Kassel and, in 1995, at the Venice Biennale. In the mid 90s, he began making synthetic computer manipulated portraits.
Exhibitions
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Photography in The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
01-02-2005 ~ 30-04-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal
27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Berardo Museum
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
Face and Identity, Portraits from the Berardo Collection
Centro Cultural e Congressos Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
15-05-2008 ~ 15-09-2008
Arriscar o Real
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo
MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal
24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Tudo o que é Sólido
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 972817652X
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003
Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém
ISBN 9728176856
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art: Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Multiples, New York, Tuesday, October 5, 1993, lot. 49 , 1993
Published by Sotheby´s
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729739105
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