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The body of work Struth made in places of worship in different cultures around the world developed over a number of years. The genesis of these works can be seen in some of the Museum Photographs, which included people looking at religious paintings in museums.

Growing out of his work in 1990 at the Pantheon in Rome, between 1995 and 2003 Struth made an ‘extended family’ of works in temples, churches, cathedrals and tourist sites which incorporated groups of people who had come to these places as cultural tourists or religious believers: places which, in Struth’s eyes, offer “monumental emotional packages of overwhelming experience.”

In San Zaccaria, Venice (1995) Struth constructed his composition around the central figures of the Madonna and Child in Giovanni Bellini’s Sacra Conversazione and included a number of visitors involved in different acts of looking, from aesthetic to religious contemplation. Struth had been introduced to Bellini’s painting by the Scottish art historian Giles Robertson, the subject of two of Struth’s earliest portraits.

Robertson had published an important monograph on Bellini in 1968 in which the Sacra Conversazione was the frontispiece. Struth had become fascinated by the presence of the painting in its original setting whilst spending some time in Venice in 1990 in residence at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

“Looking at works which had not been isolated from their original context, which were still in the place and perhaps in the belief system for which they had originally been made, stimulated new possibilities. Having been raised as a Catholic I was reluctant to expand my work from the realm of art-historical museums into the domain of the religious.”

In 1998 Struth made a number of works in places of Christian worship including Milan Cathedral and Monreale in Palermo. In 1999 he returned to the Buddhist temple complex at Nara in Japan which he had first visited in 1996 and made photographs inside T-odai-ji, the Great Buddha Hall. In 2003 he reprised the composition of San Zaccaria, Venice with the figure of Madonna at the centre in Iglesia di San Francesco, Lima during his first visit to Peru.

He also made a number of works juxtaposing the imposing exteriors of religious buildings such as Milan Cathedral, Notre Dame in Paris and T-odai-ji in Nara with the diminutive groups of people on the ground beneath them.

Struth broadened his enquiry into the relationship between image and ideology in a number of works made in sites of powerful secular significance. These include Tien An Men, Beijing (1997) with the famous portrait of Chairman Mao at its centre and Times Square, New York (2000) dominated by the huge image of an anonymous woman on an advertising screen.

On a road trip through Nevada and California in 1999, Struth decided to visit the famous granite rock formation El Capitan in the Yosemite National Park, familiar to him through the work of 19th-century photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge. Struth photographed the drive-by tourists who have stopped to experience and photograph this symbolic national monument, an iconic form with an ideological charge of a different kind.


San Zaccaria
Venice
1995

Cat. 6451
Chromogenic print
182,0 x 230,5 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ; KND, WGL, MSP


Tien An Men
Beijing
1997

Cat. 6961
Chromogenic print
184,0 x 228,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, WGL, MSP


Milan Cathedral
Milan
1998

Cat. 7331
Chromogenic print
183,4 x 229,6 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, WGL, MSP

Todai-Ji
Nara
1999

Cat. 7481
Chromogenic print
178,0 x 239,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, MSP


El Capitan
Yosemite National Park
1999

Cat. 7631
Chromogenic print
176,5 x 223,0 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, WGL, MSP


Times Square
New York
2000

Cat. 7791
Chromogenic print
178,2 x 212,2 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, WGL, MSP


Notre Dame
Paris
2000

Cat. 7821
Chromogenic print
181,0 x 224,5 cm

EXHIBITED: KHZ, KND, MSP

Iglesia de San Francisco
Lima
2003

Cat. 8681
Chromogenic print
178 x 233,8 cm

EXHIBITED: KND

Moscow Station
St. Petersburg
2005

Cat. 9641
Chromogenic print
171,7 x 217,2 cm

EXHIBITED: KND, WGL, MSP
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