The Galerie Marian Goodman presents a new solo exhibition by Thomas Struth in Paris, entitled Nature & Politics.
The exhibition focuses on a selection of photographs taken in recent years at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Leibniz Institute for Wildlife and Zoo Research (IZW), two of the most prestigious scientific research centers in the world whose scale and complexity of experiments remain unknown to the public.
Through the photographs in Nature & Politics, Thomas Struth explores our relationship to science and technology, our collective obsession with challenging nature, and our unquenchable desire to push the boundaries of human knowledge.
Recognized worldwide since the 1970s for his photographic work, Thomas Struth is driven by the idea that art has the vocation of “showing what others do not see”. With Nature & Politics, he has developed a unique set of works taken in places of advanced technology, rarely accessible, such as physics institutes, pharmaceutical factories, space stations, arsenals, or even operating rooms . Since 2019, he has been able to penetrate inside CERN, the largest particle physics center in the world, located on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva.
Thomas Struth, born in 1954 in Geldern, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Recent comprehensive exhibitions of his work include Figure Ground, his largest exhibition to date which was presented at Haus der Kunst in 2017 in Munich before traveling to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2019, as well as Nature & Politics presented successively at the Folkwang Museum in Essen, at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, at the High Museum in Atlanta, at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston, at the St. Louis Museum of Art and at the MAST Foundation in Bologna between 2016 and 2019.
Thomas Struth : Nature & Politics
25 mai – 26 juillet 2024
Galerie Marian Goodman
79 & 66 rue du Temple
75003 Paris
Tel +33 (0)1 48 04 70 52
www.mariangoodman.com
