Thomas Struth
Full-scale Mock-up 3, JSC, Houston

Full-scale Mock-up 3, JSC, Houston

© 2017 Thomas Struth

Full-scale Mock-up 3, JSC, Houston
Full-scale Mock-up 3, JSC, Houston
ArtistGerman, born 1954
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Full-scale Mock-up 3, JSC, Houston
Date2017, printed 2018
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 80 1/2 × 56 5/8 in. (204.5 × 143.8 cm)
Frame: 84 × 60 × 2 3/8 in. (213.4 × 152.4 × 6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2018.640
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In contrast to his famed images of
museums and cultural sites—a series begun in 1989 that propelled him to the
forefront of late 20th-century photographers—Thomas Struth’s more recent works
explore the complex relationship between humans and technology. In Houston, he
photographed NASA’s full-scale mock-up of the International Space Station
submerged in a 40-foot-deep, 6.2-million-gallon pool—a facility in which
astronauts train for work in a weightless environment. Appropriately, the image
is both monumental and disorienting, measured against a grid of reflected
lights but seemingly untethered to earth.




ProvenanceThe artist; [Marian Goodman Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition History"Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 20–September 2, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in black marker, verso, lower center of frame backing: Full-scale Mock-up 3 // JSC, Houston 2017 // 3/6 // Thomas Struth
Printed in red and black, verso, applied label bottom center of frame backing: [Marian Goodman Gallery label]
Printed in red and black with signature, verso, applied label center of frame backing: [object care instructions]
Signed in black marker, verso, lower center: Full-scale Mock-up 3 // JSC, Houston 2017 // 3/6 // Thomas Struth
Signed in black ink, verso, applied label center of frame backing: Thomas Struth

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