Untitled (Medusa Plate), for the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 1999
Artist/Maker
Vik Muniz
(Brazilian, b. 1961)
Date1999
MediumPhotographic transfer-printed porcelain plate
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/8 × 12 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (2.9 × 31.8 × 31.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz
Object number2013.68.14
Status
Not on viewUntitled (Medusa Plate) was produced as the 1999 gift for the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, a program in which the software giant commissioned a contemporary artist to produce a multiple to distribute to the family’s friends in celebration of the holidays. Muniz’s plate features a pasta marinara rendition of Caravaggio’s round-format painting Medusa (ca. 1597, Uffizi, Florence).
Exhibition History
Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
Collections
- Modern & Contemporary
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19th century
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