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Thomas Ruff — 21h 16m / -65 ° (STE 1.25)
Thomas Ruff

21h 16m / -65 ° (STE 1.25)

Thomas Ruff's *21h 16m / -65°* belongs to his celebrated *Sterne* (Stars) series, in which the artist appropriated astronomical archive photographs to challenge notions of authorship and scientific objectivity. The large-scale chromogenic color print renders a vast field of deep space with cool precision, its title functioning as celestial coordinates rather than a poetic name, reducing the sublime to data. Mounted with a Diasec face and housed in the artist's own wooden frame, the work blurs the line between document and artwork, questioning how images construct our understanding of the universe.

Medium
chromogenic color print, mounted with Diasec face, in artist's wooden frame

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

November 12, 2013

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Thomas Ruff, 21h 16m / -65 ° (STE 1.25)

Thomas Ruff's *21h 16m / -65°* belongs to his celebrated *Sterne* (Stars) series, in which the artist appropriated astronomical archive photographs to challenge notions of authorship and scientific objectivity. The large-scale chromogenic color print renders a vast field of deep space with cool precision, its title functioning as celestial coordinates rather than a poetic name, reducing the sublime to data. Mounted with a Diasec face and housed in the artist's own wooden frame, the work blurs the line between document and artwork, questioning how images construct our understanding of the universe.

Medium
chromogenic color print, mounted with Diasec face, in artist's wooden frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Blue, Conceptual, Minimalist, Photograph, Scientific, Chromogenic Print, German, Abstract, Astronomy, Contemporary

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