THOMAS RUFF

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press++

2015—
Ruff’s latest series, press++, was conceived as an archive of press photographs from a newspaper company. The artist scanned photographs printed on photographic paper that were stored in Japanese and American news agencies, and using an image-processing software, combined the images on the front and the writing on the back into a single picture. This approach has parallels with the photomontage techniques used by German Dadaists such as John Heartfield and Raoul Hausmann in the 1920s. The work, made with press photographs provided by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper company, makes its world premiere in this exhibition.