Mais-Acker, No. 22, Winterthur
Thomas Struth's large-scale chromogenic print captures a dense, towering wall of corn stalks in Winterthur, Switzerland, presenting nature as an almost architectural, impenetrable structure. The image exemplifies Struth's meticulous and detached photographic approach, rendering the mundane agricultural landscape with striking formal precision and visual complexity. The lush, layered tangle of foliage fills the frame entirely, challenging the viewer to find depth and order within the seemingly chaotic yet rhythmic natural forms.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
A Constant Pursuit: Photographs from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw
October 4, 2018
Artists in conversation
Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955
Gursky shares Struth's large format chromogenic print approach and detached conceptual precision, often filling the entire frame with dense, repeating natural or industrial patterns that challenge the viewer to find order within visual complexity.
Elger Esser
German · b. 1967
Esser creates large scale landscape photographs with a similar contemplative and formally rigorous quality, rendering natural environments with muted earth tones and a quiet detachment that transforms ordinary terrain into structured visual meditation.
Axel Hütte
German · b. 1951
Hütte produces large format photographs of forests and dense vegetation that closely parallel Struth's treatment of the corn field, presenting nature as an impenetrable architectural wall of layered foliage with the same typological and formally precise approach.
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