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El narrador

Jeff Wall Canadian
1986
Not on view
Wall recurrió a actores no profesionales y los dispuso en un lugar real para escenificar un incidente de la vida cotidiana del que había sido testigo ocular. La imagen final es una transparencia iluminada por detrás, como las que pueden verse en paradas de autobús o aeropuertos. No obstante, el espectador avezado reconocerá que las poses de las figuras son similares a las de famosos cuadros de los artistas franceses Édouard Manet y Georges Seurat, que en su momento también habían hecho referencia a grandes maestros del pasado.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: El narrador
  • Artista: Jeff Wall, canadiense, nacido en 1946
  • Fecha: 1986
  • Material: Transparencia Cibachrome montada en caja de luz
  • Dimensiones: 2,29 x 4,37 m
  • Crédito: Compra, donaciones de Charlene y David Howe, Henry Nias Foundation Inc., Jennifer Saul, Robert Yaffa, Harriet Ames Charitable Trust, y Gary y Sarah Wolkowitz, 2006
  • Número de inventario: 2006.91
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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