[Winter 2025]
Nature & Politics
by Stephen Horne
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
25.05.2024 — 26.07.2024
[EXCERPT]
Since the 1980s, the German artist Thomas Struth’s work has circulated among a prominent circuit of venues.Influenced on the one hand by the “conceptualist” interpretations of Bernd and Hilla Becher and on the other hand by the ambiguities of Gerhard Richter – all having been his teachers in Dusseldorf – Struth is clearly one of the most important contemporary photographers. In his recent exhibition at Galerie Marian Goodman in Paris, titled Nature & Politics, he confronted viewers with images of great emotional restraint and an immensity of scale and project that posed pressingly pertinent questions: Can there be nature without human beings? How is this pairing being reconfigured? How are our concepts of time and nature related to experienced time and nature?
[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 128 – CHANGE OF SCENE ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Thomas Struth, Nature & Politics – Stephen Horne]
Stephen Horne studied at the University of Victoria and at York University in Toronto. He taught media and fine arts at NSCAD University in Halifax between 1979 and 2005 and has lived in Montreal and France since 1999. Since 1980, his writings have been published in periodicals, catalogues, and anthologies in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.