Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, large C-print tryptic, 2005, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexican, b. 1967), "1000 usos topicos", no. 3 from an edition of 5, with artist's certificate, 118"h x 47"w (panel), 141"w (total)

Provenance: Works deaccessioned from a New York private collection; Galeria OMR, Mexico

Notes/Literature: From the artist's website: "1000 Platitudes" is a large-scale photographic intervention project. It is comprised of a video and photomontages with 1,000 words or expressions commonly used to promote globalised cities to potential investors, such as "open", "modern", "clean", "multicultural" and "cosmopolitan". To make these images, a powerful projector (110,000 ANSI lumens of intensity for images of up to 70 x 70 metres) was placed on a 12-ton truck with a generator. This mobile platform toured the Austrian city of Linz projecting onto all types of buildings: shopping malls, apartment blocks, banks, castles, churches, industrial tanks and others. At each site a letter of the alphabet was projected and then photographed before the authorities were notified. Sources of reference for this project include Etiénne-Gaspar Robertson's Phantascope (1797), a phantasmagoria projector on wheels; Krzysztof Wodiczko's deconstructivist projections, and the ShotgunTV project by Contained//Timesup (1995).

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