Concrete panels from the Eberswalde Senior Technical School Library sitting in a warehouse prior to installation (via). Various found photographs, selected by artist Thomas Ruff, were superimposed into the formwork of the concrete, turning a minimalist box into a canvas of imagery relating to the historical, cultural, geographical and symbolical context of the library.
“In Eberswalde we developed a method of applying photography to concrete. We like the idea that we had to introduce a technical grain in addition to the natural grain of the concrete, which presupposed the fuzziness and disappearance of the picture. It is this effect that interests us in the work of Warhol, whose repetitive silkscreens are not identical though they look like stamped prints. So on the one hand they demonstrate the technical aspect but on the other, change and transience. Actually it is the objectivity and incontestability of photography and it’s inescapable closeness to death that at the same time both fascinates and repels me” Via.
May 20, 2010, 9:53am Permalink |
