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Der Spiegel 21-10-10

A work made of collage composed of scanned magazine pages, digitally manipulated, printed on inkjet printer, cut and reassembled.
© 2010 John Sparagana.

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  • A work made of collage composed of scanned magazine pages, digitally manipulated, printed on inkjet printer, cut and reassembled.

Date:

2010

Artist:

John Sparagana
American, born 1958

About this artwork

John Sparagana has been transforming mass-media materials for at least the past two decades. To create Der Spiegel 21–10–10, the artist selected sixteen identical pages from the October 21, 2010, issue of the Germanlanguage weekly news magazine. He then intentionally damaged the pages by rubbing, folding, and distressing their surfaces, before slicing the pages into strips and weaving them back together to re-form the single-page spread from the original magazine. Essentially, Sparagana manually enlarged the image while keeping its proportions equal to the original.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Sparagana

Title

Der Spiegel 21-10-10

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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2010

Medium

Collage composed of scanned magazine pages, digitally manipulated, printed on inkjet printer, cut and reassembled

Dimensions

198.1 × 91.4 cm (78 × 36 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Leslie Buchbinder

Reference Number

2011.174

Copyright

© 2010 John Sparagana.

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