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He also reflects Ruff, and Thomas Struth held at the on how globalization and contemporary life auditorium of Fundación Proa from July have affected his artwork. 14th to the 28th of August. Conversations with Andreas Gursky, and Bernd and The auditorium of Fundación Proa will Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth show as well episodes from the series from the series Contacts will be shown Contacts devoted to Bernd and Hilla from Tuesday through Friday at 4 pm. Becher, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth, all of them directed by Jean-Pierre Krief. The documentary Conversations with Contacts is a series of documentaries on Andreas Gursky shows an interview contemporary photography produced by conducted in November 2008 in the KS visions, ARTE France, and Le jeu de Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany, paume. Each episode lasts 13 minutes as part of the exhibition Andreas Gursky: and proposes a journey through the Werke / Works 80 - 08 by its Director artwork of a photographer. The invited Martin Hentschel, and the Education artist guides the spectator to the heart of Coordinator Thomas Janzen. During the his or hers creative photographic process 68 minutes of film, the artist comments by selecting images and commenting about his formative years with Otto on the contact sheets, tests and Steiner and the Becher matrimony, on how impressions. Through this process the he merged the opposing tendencies of their artist is able to show the evolution of teachings -subjective and objective - in his the character and meaning of the work work. During the interview, he addresses throughout the years. · · · fh[diW6fheW$eh] J[dWh_i·J[hd_kc :eYkc[djWh_[i Q+*#''S*'&*'&** Eh]Wd_pWY_dJ[Y^_dj <kdZWY_dFHE7 Bernd and Hilla Becher Dir. Jean-Pierre Krief. 13’ Producido por KSVISIONS, ARTE, The exhibition and Le Jeu de Paume. The exhibition Urban Spaces: Andreas Criss-crossing Europe and America in Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, the sixties and seventies, Bernd and Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth can Hilla Becher captured the rich heritage be visited until Sunday August 30th at of post-war industrial architecture, Fundación Proa, from Tuesday to Sunday photographing towering smokestacks, from 11 am to 7 pm, at 1929 Av. Pedro de water towers and lime kilns. In this Mendoza, La Boca, Buenos Aires. documentary, they both describe their methodology and speak about their Curated by Ludovico Pratesi, researcher intention of revealing through their work and specialist in photography, the show the dominant thought of a historical will analyze the evolution on the concept period. As pioneers of the new objectivity, of the city in contemporary culture their place is assured in the annals of through the ideas and images produced by photography. the members of the so called Düsseldorf School of Photography. Thomas Ruff Dir. Jean-Pierre Krief. 13’ The exhibition is composed by 45 works Producido por KSVISIONS, ARTE, produced from the early eighties until and Le Jeu de Paume. recent times. It is designed to take the visitor first through the artists’ early One of the pre-eminent figures in the works - those produced during their new generation of German artists, the formative years at the Düsseldorf School photographer recounts the evolution of - and continuing with their most recent his work in series and the altering of his body of work, in which an individual images, which question the link between selection from each artist will emphasize photography and reality. A notorious their stylistic differences and personal experimenter, Thomas Ruff explores characteristics. through his series of portraits, our desire for illusion and need for identification, which makes us seek in photography the proof of a true existence and identity. Thomas Struth Dir. Jean-Pierre Krief. 13’ Producido por KSVISIONS, ARTE, and Le Jeu de Paume. Thomas Struth’s large-scale works, cityscapes devoid of human presence, possess great documentary clarity, while their chaotic structure reveals the links between urban spaces, social groups and the unconscious, to this respect he states “streets represent the unconscious of man”. In this film, Struth shows his interest in history and in capturing the tensions produced by the encounter between individuality and community life. His series on museums explores the relationship between the photographic act and the legacy of our pictorial culture. · · · fh[diW6fheW$eh] J[dWh_i·J[hd_kc :eYkc[djWh_[i Q+*#''S*'&*'&** Eh]Wd_pWY_dJ[Y^_dj.