Footnotes

• Provenance:
  Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
  Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia (acquired from the above in 2001)
  
  Exhibited:
  New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust, January 27 - May 20, 2001 (another example exhibited)
  
  Note:
  A certificate of authenticity signed by the artist accompanies this work.
  
  Other examples of this piece are in the following public collections:
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
  Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Other examples from this series are in the following public collections:
  Tate Modern, London, England
  The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  
  We are grateful to Sikkema Jenkins and Co. for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of this work.
  
  
  "For the series entitled Pictures of Dust, Muniz used installation photographs of large-scale Minimalist and Post-Minimalist sculpture from the files of the Whitney Museum of American Art as his inspiration. He then collected bags of dust from the museum's vacuum cleaners, from which he painstakingly copied his source material. The result is a perceptual hall of mirrors-images of drawings in dust from photographs depicting tons of geometric sculpture. Muniz's conceptual gesture brilliantly enfolds a single stylistic transition from the history of art-from Minimalism's primary structures and industrial solidity to the scattered "anti-form" fragility of what followed-into his own dance with dust, suggesting the ultimate ephemerality of all movements. In its largest sense, the works also demonstrate the interplay between order and chaos that is at the heart of not only what Muniz depicts but his own art as well." (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website)

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Category: Fine Art / Contemporary Art

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