"As a pupil Ruff was fascinated by astronomy as he knew he was by photography. To him it therefore seemed only logical to turn the sky into the theme for more or less abstract images that were to consist of black surface with many white dots. Since he did not see how he would be able to achieve the quality of professional astronomic images with the photographic equipment available to him, he resolved to work with original copies, of the 1212 negatives of the "European Southern Observatory" (ESO" archive).
Thomas Ruff (né en 1958) Sterne ou Stars - 1990
Estimate : 6000 / 8000 €
The archive houses a collection of scientific shots of the firmament in the southern hemisphere taken using a special telescope in the Andes. Ruff chose sections from the negatives (sized 29 x 29 cm) that he defined according to six different categories." Bo Nilson, in. "Thomas Ruff 13 April - 9 Juin 1996" Edition Rooseum, Malmö, 1995-1996, p. 39 à 55
