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Thomas Ruff @ Whitechapel Gallery

PHOTOGRAPHY /

© Thomas Ruff

Courtesy of
Whitechapel Gallery

Installation views,
Stephen White

Text excerpts,
Iwona Blazwick

Thomas's portrait,
John Nguyen / PA Wire

CREDITS /

November 3, 2017 

2-TIMES  Art
Thomas Ruff,
Photographs
1979 - 2017

@ Whitechapel
Gallery
— 

Like so many
sculptors of his
generation, Ruff
pays close attention
to the essential
nature of the image
itself, giving it the
physicality of an
object and the
autonomy of the
abstract
’. 

‘Photographs 
1979 - 2017’: 
Pursues Ruff's lines
of investigation
through series
of typologies, a
selection of which
– spanning 1979 to 
2017 – are brought
together for this
solo exhibition in
London. 

Keywords: 
Cosmology, suburbia,
nudity, utopianism,
catastrophe. 

I’ve always tried 
to work with images 
of the world that 
are unforgettable. 

On view at: 
Whitechapel Gallery 

77-82 Whitechapel
High Street,
London E1 7QX,
United Kingdom. 

Closes: 
January 18, 2018.