THOMAS RUFF

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2001—
Are the millions of Internet images, so numerous as to be uncountable, reflective of reality? Or are they simply visual stimulants produced by combining RGB colors? Ruff began making the nudes series with anonymous pornographic pictures that are ubiquitous on the Internet and then began deconstructing the images. By digitally manipulating them to the point where it is impossible to identify the original forms in the pictures (derived from Japanese manga and anime), Ruff strips the pictures of meaning and information.