Der Spiegel 21-10-10

Prints and Drawings

2010

John Sparagana
American, born 1958

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:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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

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