Baja, California
Artist
Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
(Dutch, born 1949)
DateDecember 20, 1981
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (each): 3 15/16 × 5 7/8 inches (9.98 × 14.91 cm)
Sheet (each): 4 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (10.8 × 15.57 cm)
Sheet (all 4): 4 1/4 × 25 1/16 inches (10.8 × 63.66 cm)
Mount: 19 3/4 × 27 5/8 inches (50.17 × 70.18 cm)
Sheet (each): 4 1/4 × 6 1/8 inches (10.8 × 15.57 cm)
Sheet (all 4): 4 1/4 × 25 1/16 inches (10.8 × 63.66 cm)
Mount: 19 3/4 × 27 5/8 inches (50.17 × 70.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2020.5.10
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "m szulc kryzanowski."
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "Baja California 20 December 1981 2/25"
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "RMG18120"
Edition/State/Proofed. 2/25
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFour photographs mounted horizontally on a single mount. Each image is of a sand dollar held in the palm of a hand. When viewing the images from left to right, the sand dollar appears smaller and the hand appears larger.Gallery LabelMichel Szulc Krzyzanowski uses sequential imagery to demonstrate how photographic "reality" varies relative to time and place. In this sequence, he plays with scale and proximity to invert our expectations. While the artist’s hand appears to grow as it approaches the camera, the sand dollar he holds seems to maintain its size. This clever maneuver creates the illusion that the sand dollar is shrinking, when in fact the artist is holding different sand dollars from frame to frame.
Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY;
Purchased from Rick Wester Fine Art by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2020;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
Purchased from Rick Wester Fine Art by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2020;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
Copyright© Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
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