About this artwork
In 1969, at the invitation of Munich gallery owner Heiner Friedrich, sculptor Michael Heizer drove a backhoe to dig a pit more than 30 meters in diameter: geometry writ large on the landscape. As an extension of the work, called Munich Depression, Heizer took 360-degree photographs of the 7,000-square-foot pit and used them to prepare a gigantic slide piece, called Actual Size—a 1:1 virtual recreation of Munich Depression that brought his outdoor intervention into an exhibition space. “I think certain photographs offer a precise way of seeing works,” he said as he was preparing this photo work. “You can take a photograph into a clean white room, with no sound, no noise. You can … possibly experience to a greater depth whatever view you have been presented with.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Michael Heizer
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Title
- Study for Actual Size (Munich Depression)
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1969
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Medium
- Gelatin silver prints (10) mounted with electrical tape on board
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Dimensions
- Overall image, approx: 14 × 204.5 cm (5 9/16 × 80 9/16 in.); Overall paper, approx: 24 × 204.5 cm (9 1/2 × 80 9/16 in.); Frame: 49.8 × 225.4 × 2.5 cm (19 5/8 × 88 3/4 × 1 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation
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Reference Number
- 2013.20
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