{"product_id":"thomas-struth-nature-politics","title":"Thomas Struth-Nature \u0026 Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte remove-empty-space\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThis catalogue accompanies a museum exhibition of the latest work of German artist, Thomas Struth. The touring show focuses on photographs Struth has made since his last major retrospective, which covered the years 1978–2010.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTexts by Tobia Bezzola, Dirk Baecker and D. Graham Burnett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishing date:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eMarch 2016\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLarge-format paperback book with 4 colour printed acetate jacket, numerous gatefolds and 8 Japanese papers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003e214 pages, 95 colour plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24 x 35 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003eMack\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1-910164-47-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte remove-empty-space\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue comprises 65 works (plus details) and includes all of the 30 works in the exhibition to create the most comprehensive book of Struth’s recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Struth is renowned for his practice of creating singular images, each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture, portraiture, landscape and, most recently, sites of technological and scientific research.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature \u0026amp; Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores in depth diverse strands of Struth’s enquiry, whilst also elaborating the interstices between them, to present the most significant current monograph of the artist’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years technology and the constructed landscape have become overarching subjects for Struth. Photographing at sites of techno-industrial and scientific research, including physics institutes, pharmaceutical plants, space stations, dockyards, nuclear facilities and operating theatres – he has focused on machines which are some of the transformative instruments of our contemporary world, and edifices of technological production where the heights of human knowledge are enacted, debated and advanced. These works explore the aesthetics of innovation and experimentation through the recording of structural complexities and allude to the hidden structures of control, power and influence exerted by advanced technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the same period, Struth was working on two quite distinct projects. The first was Disneyland, a theme park which was famously constructed by reference to Walt Disney's memories of his trips across Europe, transforming the passive experience of watching and of fantasy into a latent reality in California. Struth was attracted to this ultimate human-crafted environment, where technology has facilitated the materialisation of images from Walt Disney's imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second project was the contested landscape of Israel and Palestine where Struth created a series of images which collapsed his strict subject fields, producing urban landscapes, portraits, landscapes and photographs of technology. Each photograph is a fragment which attempts to grasp the circumscribed reality of a region where coexistence has failed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStruth seeks, in his own words, “to open the doors to what our minds have materialised and transformed into sculpture and to scrutinise what our contemporary world has created in places which are not accessible to most people.” His images penetrate and report on the material spaces of the human imagination, and they are born from an accelerated moment when technology and the image industry have brought physical reality and the imagination closer together\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Struth (b. 1954) is internationally recognised for his wide-ranging work, which includes photographs of urban views and architecture, landscapes, portraits, museums and places of worship. He trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1973–80), and, during that time, he was the first artist in residence at the P.S.1 Studios in Long Island City. From 1993 to 1996 he was the first Professor of Photography at the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. He has exhibited all over the world, and a large number of monographs have been published of his oeuvre, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mackbooks.co.uk\/books\/1053-Thomas-Struth.html\"\u003eThomas Struth\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(MACK, 2014), and Thomas Struth: Unconscious Places (Schirmer\/Mosel, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTouring exhibition:\u003cbr\u003eMuseum Folkwang, Essen\u003cbr\u003eMartin-Gropius Bau, Berlin\u003cbr\u003eHigh Museum, Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eSt Louis Art Museum\u003cbr\u003eMoody Center for the Arts, Houston\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Paradis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51505519296853,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/0849\/1861\/files\/IMG_2111.webp?v=1758538036","url":"https:\/\/paradis-superstore.com\/products\/thomas-struth-nature-politics","provider":"Paradis Superstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}