Thomas Struth’s ‘Silwan, East Jerusalem,’ 2009 Photography:Courtesy The Artist And Marian Goodman Gallery.

April 29 - June 6, 2015 

Marian Goodman Gallery
5-8 Lower John Street
London W1F 9DY

Opening reception: Wednesday 29 April 6:00-8:00pm.

When German Photographer Thomas Struth was 15 years old, he painted a canvas full of menacing-looking people running toward the viewer to escape an abstract threat behind them, the colors a jumble of blue and blood-orange. 

“It was a short love,” says Mr. Struth, 60, of his initial passion for painting, which he admits reflected “typical” adolescent brooding. That impulse to depict puberty’s turbulence, he says, quickly dissolved while studying at the Düsseldorf Academy between 1973 and 1980. Enrolling at the ruthlessly prestigious institution was “a bit of a shock,” he says, describing it as “a place where your art was debated about [and] argued over.” 

‘Off Al-Shuhada Street 1, Al-Khalil / Hebron,’ 2009, by Thomas Struth Photography:Courtesy The Artist And Marian Goodman Gallery.

But he gradually developed a unique photographic style in which he found historically charged subjects, including the bullet-ridden walls of war-torn German buildings, and depicted them as subtle street scenes often devoid of humans—ghost towns with anonymous pasts......Continue Reading

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