German photographer Thomas Struth brings his camera to places where few will follow: to space stations, pharmaceutical plants, fusion reactors.
The High Museum of Art will be the first U.S. museum to present a new exhibit of the artist’s works, “Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics” which will open here Oct. 16 and run through Jan. 8, 2017.
More than 30 photographs, many of monumental scale, will be on display, drawn from Struth’s travels in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America over the past 10 years. They include two photographs made in Atlanta in 2013.
It will be another high point in a year with a remarkably rich offerings of photographic exhibits.
Struth's work is concerned with the manufactured landscape, and so his photos show artificial environments, many of them unearthly and complex, such as the image of the interior of a "tokamak," a device that confines plasma in the shape of a torus through the use of a magnetic field. The photograph was captured at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany.
His Atlanta photographs are of a robotics laboratory at Georgia Tech and a scene from the Georgia Aquarium.
The show was co-organized by the High, the Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany), and Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum.
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