Interviewed in his studio while at work and while setting up one of his recent shows, the noted German artist presents, with rigor and clarity, 30 years of photographic research and experimentation, produced following the lesson of Bernd Becher, his teacher at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, to “reflect the medium in the image”.
The director, who followed Ruff for two years, guides us through a discovery of the artist’s peculiar language, the sources of his work, his production and printing processes, and finally on his characteristic modes of presenting his famous series of works: from the first domestic interiors to the large-scale portraits, jpgs and nudes, up to his latest effort, a series titled m.a.r.s., produced by enlarging and modifying the colors of black and white topographic images of the planet’s surface,
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Born in 1970 in Krefeld, Germany, he studied theatre and film at the Ruhr-Universitat in Bochum and cultural management at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Zurich/Luzern, Switzerland. Ralph Goertz began working as a stage director for operas and cross-media projects. Today Ralph Goertz works as a curator, filmmaker and producer. In 2009 he founded the IKS – Institute for Art Documentary and Scenography, which is specialized in documentaries about contemporary art. In 2011 he received the Delphic Art movie Award for Robert Mapplethorpe – Shapes in Berlin.