L'oeil du tigre I
This sweeping landscape view of windblown waves of grain is, in fact, a close-up photograph of a piece of fur that Voïta shot in his studio. Like many of the artists in this exhibition, Voïta operates in the gap between truth and illusion. Starting from the premise that photographs shape and distort reality, he creates subtly disorienting pictures that are essentially about the processes of perception that the viewer brings to them.
Artwork Details
- Title: L'oeil du tigre I
- Artist: Bernard Voïta (Swiss, born 1960)
- Date: 1999
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 47 x 70 cm (18 1/2 x 27 9/16 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Gary and Sarah Wolkowitz Gift, 2000
- Object Number: 2000.310
- Rights and Reproduction: © Bernard Voïta
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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