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Questioning Pictures: Photograph of floor plan for office Baroque, blue pen on graph paper by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1977
Questioning Pictures: Photograph of floor plan for office Baroque, blue pen on graph paper by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1977
People:
  • Stefano Graziani (photographer)
Title:

Questioning Pictures: Photograph of floor plan for office Baroque, blue pen on graph paper by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1977

Date:

2017

Description:

Photograph by Stefano Graziani of the following work: Gordon Matta-Clark, floor plan for Office Baroque, 1977, blue ballpoint pen on graph paper, 42 x 59.5 cm, PHCON2002:0016:058, Gordon Matta-Clark collection, Canadian Centre of Architecture, Gift of Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

Questioning Pictures is a 36 photograph project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milan. Artist Stefano Graziani investigates archival and conservation systems in a number of museums. Through photographing museum objects, Graziani, focusing on the relationship between photographs, the museum objects and the power structures at play within institutions.

The museums include the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Canada; Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum Insel Hombroich in Neuss, Germany; the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy; and the Plaster Cast Gallery at Museo Canova in Possagno, Italy.

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Inkjet print

Dimensions:

24.0 x 30.5 (comp.) 26.8 x 33.4 (sheet)

Reference number:

PH2018:0005:033

Inscription:

Signed, inscribed "for CCA" and numbered "33", on verso

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture,
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de l'artiste / Gift of the artist
Commande de la Fondation Prada / Commissioned by Fondazione Prada
Copyright:

Photograph © Stefano Graziani

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