Sunday October 17, 2010 at 11:44

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ajnabee: “This architectural effect of the pavilion has a pendant in Ruff’s haptic colouring and blurring, making it impossible to see anything clear.16 The photo- graphy’s interruption of the architecture can be considered as the impact of an abstract machine on the architecture. From this point of view art is about making the invisible visible, about a deterritorialization, which in an affective way emphasizes forces and examines creation.17 When Ruff photographs the architecture of Mies’ then it is less with representation in mind, but rather as an affective act. The photograph virtually deterritorializes the architecture from one materiality to another, like when the stone structure of the marble walls is transferred to the silver crystals of the photography.” -Theorizing the Image of Architecture, Thomas Ruff’s Photographs of the buildings of Mies Van Der Rohe

ajnabee:

“This architectural effect of the pavilion has a pendant in Ruff’s haptic colouring and blurring, making it impossible to see anything clear.16 The photo- graphy’s interruption of the architecture can be considered as the impact of an abstract machine on the architecture. From this point of view art is about making the invisible visible, about a deterritorialization, which in an affective way emphasizes forces and examines creation.17 When Ruff photographs the architecture of Mies’ then it is less with representation in mind, but rather as an affective act. The photograph virtually deterritorializes the architecture from one materiality to another, like when the stone structure of the marble walls is transferred to the silver crystals of the photography.” -Theorizing the Image of Architecture, Thomas Ruff’s Photographs of the buildings of Mies Van Der Rohe

This post was reblogged from concrete rules and abstract machines.