MALAGA.- The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga presents ma.r.s., by Thomas Ruff, a leading name in photography and contemporary art and one of the most prominent members of the German School since the 1980s. The exhibition, curated by Fernando Francés, features a range of images of the universe that depict apparently distant places but ones within reach of the spectator, which is the conceptual thread of the exhibition. The origins of the images are of secondary importance due to the way that Ruff manipulates them throughout the creative process. The post-production is therefore the crucial element in his working method, bringing about unexpected results and offering a startling vision of the landscapes of Mars. “Photography can only reproduce the surface of things”. This phrase by Thomas Ruff (born Zell am Harmersbach, 1958) sums up his approach when starting work on the negative of a photographic image. His aim