From David Zwerner website: he widens his scope to simultaneously encompass the analog and the digital, as well as the cultural and the political. In these works, Ruff takes images of Mao Zedong scanned from La Chine magazine—the French iteration of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced specifically for Europe from the late 1950s through the 1970s—and manipulates them to create images with both the halftone of the “analog” offset printing and the “digital” structure of the pixel image.
Podcast interview with the Artist Newspaper
