Yasser Piña Peña
Eight Hundred Sixty Two Elements Shaped Like a Flag

CultureCuban
Titles
  • Eight Hundred Sixty Two Elements Shaped Like a Flag
  • from the series Prácticas formales
  • from the series Formal Practices
Date2009
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage (at open): 10 5/8 × 14 3/4 in. (27 × 37.4 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 5/16 × 19 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (41.5 × 50.7 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection, Gift of Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker
Object number2024.268
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 314
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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In the decades immediately after the revolution, the Cuban flag was so omnipresent that it figured frequently in photographs celebrating the nation. When it reemerged as a subject 50 years later, it did so ironically, as in Yasser Piña Peña’s Eight Hundred Sixty-Two Elements Shaped Like a Flag. The 862 “elements” are one-peso coins lined up in a perfectly disciplined patriotic formation.

 

En las décadas inmediatamente posteriores a la revolución, la bandera cubana era omnipresente y solía formar parte de las fotografías que celebraban a la nación. Al reaparecer como sujeto 50 años después, lo hace de manera irónica, como en Eight Hundred Sixty-Two Elements Shaped Like a Flag (Ochocientos sesenta y dos elementos en forma de bandera) de Yasser Piña Peña. Los 862 “elementos” son monedas de un peso alineadas cual una formación patriótica perfecta- mente disciplinada.


ProvenanceMadeleine and Harvey Plonsker, Glencoe, Illinois; given to MFAH, 2024.

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