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 Annelies Štrba (b. 1947), Tschernobyl [Chernobyl], 1996, Photograph behind glass, edition of six, 125 x 185 cm |
 [...] Architecture Architecture counts among photography’s oldest motifs. The very first plate in the very first book to be illustrated with photographs, The Pencil of Nature (1844–1846) by British photographer William Henry Fox Talbot, is a view of Queen’s College Oxford. Architectural motifs, including the Ricola premises designed by Herzog & de Meuron, also feature prominently in the works of some of the art photographers in the Ricola Collection, among them Balthasar Burkhard (1944–2010) and Thomas Ruff (b. 1958), even if both artists are known for their series with other motifs, too, including the human face (Ruff), body fragments, animals and landscapes (Burkhard). Burkhard’s Ricola Lagerhaus (1990–91) consists of five single photographs and was commissioned in 1991 by the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron. The black-and-white photographs of parts of the Storage Building and the Vertical Factory Addition opposite it were exhibited as a spatial installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale that same year. The dialogue with architecture that has arisen out of Ricola’s long-standing collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron also resonates in the works Ricola, Laufen (Architecture: Herzog & de Meuron, 1991) and Ricola Brunstatt (Architecture: Herzog & de Meuron, 1994) by Thomas Ruff. In a rather different way, it also informs the works of Renate Buser (b. 1961), an artist who lives and works in Basel, whose photographic works Shimbashi (2005) and Nishi-Shinjuku (2005) are a result of her engagement with Japanese urban architecture. [...] |
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