During the past 18 years, Thomas Struth's Museum pictures the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, retrospectively. The crowds at the Prado Series of photographs show a variety of different ways of seeing and viewing, as well as a recent phenomenon, the hearing. "[Struth] work documented by formal means (which in turn strictly aesthetic / conceptual models have) conditions, as they are now all over the world to see. Struth analyzed the present with a very subtle sense of what is considered valuable and worthwhile to note, in order to consider the facts and to compel the eye, using the normal 1nehmen go. "(Charlie Wylie, in: Thomas Struth. 1977 -- 2002, Munich 2002) (Prado, Madrid) |
