Barricade No. 03
Series TitleGeneral Song
Artist
Rodrigo Valenzuela
(American, born Chile, 1982)
Date2017
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 52 1/8 × 42 1/8 inches (132.41 × 107.01 cm)
Sheet and mount: 54 × 44 inches (137.16 × 111.76 cm)
Framed: 55 1/16 × 45 1/16 × 2 inches (139.85 × 114.45 × 5.08 cm)
Sheet and mount: 54 × 44 inches (137.16 × 111.76 cm)
Framed: 55 1/16 × 45 1/16 × 2 inches (139.85 × 114.45 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.51.65
SignedSigned on gallery label, mount verso, lower left, in black ink: [signature]
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 2/3
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Chilean-born immigrant Rodrigo Valenzuela uses found materials such as tires, folding chairs, and cinder blocks to allude to a personal history. Such objects are often used to create street barricades during political upheaval, as was common under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet witnessed by Valenzuela as a child. After photographing his staged arrangement of whitewashed objects in his studio, Valenzuela uses the image as a backdrop for a second photograph. The final print presents a disorienting spatial displacement that is both visual and conceptual.
Purchased from Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Rodrigo Valenzuela
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