The Artist Project: Luis Camnitzer

Artist Luis Camnitzer reflects on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"I feel Piranesi predicted Pop Art in terms of creating icons of irrelevant stuff."

Artist Luis Camnitzer reflects on Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Luis Camnitzer, born in 1937 in Germany, is a Uruguayan conceptual artist who works primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installation.

A black and white photograph of a man laying on the ground with a toy house, tree, and farm animals placed on his face.

Luis Camnitzer (Uruguayan, born 1937)

Landscape as an Attitude, 1979

Gelatin silver print; 9 1/2 × 13 1/8 in. (24.13 × 33.33 cm). Walker Art Center, T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011 (2011.87) © Luis Camnitzer


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