Thomas Ruff, M.D.P.N.

Room 13

Trained at the Dusseldorf School, taught by Hilla and Bernd Becker, whose chair he inherited, Thomas Ruff adopted its methodological rigour, developing an autonomous language through the introduction of colour, photographic manipulation and the use of new technologies. The M.D.P.N. series, produced in 2002, examines the Naples fish market (the letters in the title are, in fact, the initials), a building constructed between 1929 and 1934 to a design by Luigi Cosenza, which became an example of rationalist architecture in the city. This was the same period in which Antonio Cassi Ramelli designed the extension to Casa Testori: the hall, veranda and rooms above it were built in the 1930s.

Thomas Ruff was born in 1958.