The Biggest Surface On Earth: Scale 1:1; [One Printed Page}
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006. First edition. -. Single leaf, with accompanying explanatory text, housed in original cardboard chemise. Fine / -. Item #204189
One of 200 copies, numbered and initialed by the artist. A conceptual work by the Belgian artist, this was the second in the One Printed Page series of projects for the MOMA Library Council. From the museum's prospectus: "The edition was generated from a sample artifact that the artist calls "original momametamaterial"—a sheet of paper covered with a thick layer of powdery gray photocopier toner. Each unique image, signed and dated to the hour, was produced on a series of desktop laser printers over many days. Each reads as a shimmering, minimalist gray abstraction, printed on a circular sheet of paper, or as a gray void, marked by the shifting moiré patterns that in commercial printing may indicate degraded reproduction. Accompanying each piece is a seemingly scientific, highly technical description of the project, written by the artist, with computer-generated diagrams of atomic spheres. The text, sometimes credible, sometimes vaguely preposterous, outlines the complex electrostatic calibrations and other processes by which the artist fabricated “extracts” from a surface that does not exist in nature."
Price: $750.00