THOMAS RUFF

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2008—
This series, which Ruff began in 2008, is based on the artist’s interest in mathematics and physics. Inspired by diagrams (engravings) of magnetic fields in the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s (1831-1879) study of electromagnetism, Ruff reproduced linear forms based on various mathematical formulas using a 3D computer program and restructured them in a digital space. Then he converted them into two-dimensional works, giving the complex combinations of curved lines the appearance of planetary orbits or abstract drawings.