- Eight Hundred Sixty Two Elements Shaped Like a Flag
- from the series Prácticas formales
- from the series Formal Practices
Frame (outer): 16 5/16 × 19 15/16 × 1 1/4 in. (41.5 × 50.7 × 3.2 cm)
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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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