JPEGS - Thomas Ruff
In 2007, Thomas Ruff completed his monumental jpegs series, exploring the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Using images drawn primarily from the web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, exaggerating pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of the works in Ruff's series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes and, conversely, scenes of war and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterpieces constitute an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that is also part of the history of landscape painting. A luxurious, oversized volume, jpegs is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the publication of Ruff's remarkable series. The book also includes an essay by Bennett Simpson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Published by Aperture, 2009
28.6 x 38.1 cm
132 pages
ISBN: 9781597110938
In 2007, Thomas Ruff completed his monumental jpegs series, exploring the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Using images drawn primarily from the web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, exaggerating pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of the works in Ruff's series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes and, conversely, scenes of war and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterpieces constitute an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that is also part of the history of landscape painting. A luxurious, oversized volume, jpegs is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the publication of Ruff's remarkable series. The book also includes an essay by Bennett Simpson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Published by Aperture, 2009
28.6 x 38.1 cm
132 pages
ISBN: 9781597110938
In 2007, Thomas Ruff completed his monumental jpegs series, exploring the distribution and reception of images in the digital age. Using images drawn primarily from the web, Ruff enlarges them to a gigantic scale, exaggerating pixel patterns until they become sublime geometric displays of color. Many of the works in Ruff's series focus on idyllic, seemingly untouched landscapes and, conversely, scenes of war and nature disturbed by human manipulation. Taken together, these masterpieces constitute an encyclopedic compendium of contemporary visual culture that is also part of the history of landscape painting. A luxurious, oversized volume, jpegs is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the publication of Ruff's remarkable series. The book also includes an essay by Bennett Simpson, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Published by Aperture, 2009
28.6 x 38.1 cm
132 pages
ISBN: 9781597110938