• Stefano Graziani (photographer)

Questioning Pictures: Photograph of drawing for the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts by Peter Eisenman, 1977-1989

2017

Photograph by Stefano Graziani of the following work: Peter Eisenman, drawing for the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts, Columbus Ohio, 1977-1989, AP143.S4.D22, Peter Eisenman fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, © CCA, Montréal

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.

Inkjet print

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

PH2018:0005:007

Signed, inscribed "for CCA" and numbered "7", on verso

Photograph © Stefano Graziani