16:38 Thomas Struth: Photographs @metmuseum | |
| Twenty-five photographs by Thomas Struth (German, born 1954), one of the most accomplished and celebrated artists of the last half-century, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 30, 2014 through February 16, 2015. From his early black-and-white streetscapes made in New York in 1978 to recent and previously unseen works, Struth’s photographs explore both the traditions and actual conditions of a world on the cusp of global change.
The exhibition is made possible by Vivian and James Zelter. Thomas Struth: Photographs offers a compact yet comprehensive survey of the major developments in this prominent artist’s oeuvre. A new photograph, Figure 2, Charité, Berlin (2014), shows the use of robotics during a surgical operation. Also included are examples from the landmark Museum Photographs series—large-scale views of visitors in museums and other cultural settings—as well as sensitive and humanistic portraits and wall-size views of grand public spaces from Times Square to Tiananmen Square. The Metropolitan owns three stellar works from Struth’s Museum Photographs, and a highlight of this installation will be the inclusion of another from the series, on loan from a private collection—the iconic Pantheon, Rome (1990), perhaps Struth’s signature image from the series. Showing visitors gazing as if to the heavens in one of the greatest buildings to survive from antiquity, his photograph unites the timeless and the ephemeral, allowing viewers to see two perspectives—the ideal and the real—on the same theme.  Image Caption: Thomas Struth (German, b. 1954). Pantheon, Rome, 1990. Chromogenic print. Private collection, New York by #  
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