Marcela Magno
38° 4'8.34"S | 67°49'16.56"O | 14 Ene 2012

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Artist Marcela Magno(Argentinean, born 1966)Argentinean, born 1966

CultureArgentinean

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38° 4'8.34"S | 67°49'16.56"O | 14 Ene 2012
from the series Land

Date2012, printed 2014

Place depictedArgentina

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 26 11/16 × 62 13/16 in. (67.8 × 159.5 cm)
Sheet: 26 11/16 × 62 13/16 in. (67.8 × 159.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. K. C. Weiner in honor of Mike McLanahan at "One Great Night in November, 2015"

Object number2015.657

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by Latin American Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAssembled from hundreds of Google Earth screenshots, Marcela Magno’s
image shows the traces of oil exploration in the Rio Colorado Valley, the
border of Rio Negro and La Pampa provinces in the central region of her native
Argentina. Evoking the beauty and mystery of a star chart, Magno’s photograph
makes the competing systems of humankind and nature visible. One of many young
artists who find and manipulate source imagery from the internet, Magno hopes
her work will prompt the viewer to ponder “the relationship between photography
and abstract art [and] between drawing and the aesthetic of scientific
diagrams.”
ProvenanceFrom the artist, via FotoFest; MFAH, 2015.

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