Year: 2002
Medium: Inkjet print, Diasec mounted
Dimensions: image: 147.3 x 108 cm (58 x 42 1/2 in.) sheet: 168.3 x 128.9 cm (66 1/4 x 50 3/4 in.)
Edition: No.5 of 5
Acquired from PHILLIPS, 2022
Ruff is one of the leading contemporary German photographers. He studied photography at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, where Bernd and Hilla Becher were teaching. He and his fellow artists often called it the “Becher School” as they were taught by Mr. and Mrs. Becher, the founders of modern photography. Their activities were referred to as one of the most important movements of contemporary photography of the 20th century. Ruff, who has been described as a “photographer without a camera”, created works applying existing images that overflowed in the world and defined to them as contemporary “photographs”. In this work, he creates a rainbow-like image by repeatedly processing colorful images from Japanese manga and anime until the originals are no longer recognizable, then decomposing the colors to the utmost limit.
