Marco Breuer
Spin (C-897)

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Artist Marco BreuerGerman, born 1966

CultureGerman

Titles

Spin (C-897)

Date2009

MediumChromogenic print with embossing/scratching

DimensionsImage: 13 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (35.2 × 27.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (35.2 × 27.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Francis L Lederer Foundation, courtesy of Sharon Lederer

Object number2013.253

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionMarco Breuer creates abstract, process-driven images without using a camera, lens, film, or enlarger. Breuer’s primary medium is photographic paper itself, which he subjects to a variety of unconventional treatments like scratching, gouging, burning, and abrasion. To make Spin (C-897), he placed a sheet of exposed color-photographic paper on a modified phonograph and scratched through the emulsion with a stylus while spinning the turntable. Unconcerned with how photography captures a subject, Breuer’s work draws our attention to the physicality of the photographic surface while exploring the limits of the representation space of a photograph.
ProvenanceMarco Breuer, Hudson, NY, 2009; Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY, 2009; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 2013.
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, center: Spin (C-897) / [signature] 2009

signed in pencil, verso of sheet, center

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