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Substratum
Since 2001
In a dramatic move away from different forms of representation
Ruff has recently began to create abstract works using digital technology.
While looking for source material for the nudes series Ruff realised
that photographic images, particularly those available on the internet,
no longer simply depict reality, but are representing visual stimuli
transmitted directly by electronic means. In order to explore this
visual ‘nothingness’, Ruff scanned pages from comics,
layering different images together and multiplying the images onto
themselves. By making it impossible for the viewer to draw out any
sense of what the original image may have been Ruff has created
works more or less devoid of meaning.
The Substratum series presents spectacular
abstract compositions of intense colour, and, to some extent, they
epitomise the complex relationship between photography and painting,
abstraction and representation that has preoccupied Ruff throughout
his career.
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