Thomas Ruff – Flieger New and symbolic references

and symbolic references

distilled to a powerful dialogue between geometry

Medium: Lithograph on wove paper

and seriality

and flip book

Thomas Ruff – Flieger New and symbolic referencesThomas Ruff's Flieger (from Tableaux Chinois) (2021 2022) is part of his Tableaux Chinois series, in which the artist reprocesses images taken from La Chine, a Chinese Communist Party propaganda magazine circulated in Europe during the Cold War. By digitally enlarging and restructuring offset printed photographs, Ruff exposes the underlying halftone dots and pixel grids, turning scenes of parachuting figures into fragmented, unstable images. The motif