RUUD VAN EMPEL – THEATRE
2025-03-24Van Empel’s process is meticulous and time-intensive, often taking hundreds or even thousands of hours to complete a single image. Using a digital collage technique he has refined since the mid-1990s, he assembles fragments of his own photographs to construct compositions that exist outside traditional photography. These layered, hyper-detailed landscapes celebrate the beauty of nature while also reflecting its tensions, as elements compete for space and attention.
Opposite – Theatre #8 (detail), 2013
Exhibition runs through to June 27th, 2025
The San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado Balboa Park
San Diego
CA 92112
