Liliana Porter

Envelope for the mail artwork, "Exhibición Nº 1, 'Sombra para dos aceitunas' ('Shadow of two olives')"

1969

Offset, printed in black

Not on view

Medium Offset, printed in black
Dimensions 4 7/8 × 6 1/8" (12.4 × 15.5 cm)
Printer New York Graphic Workshop, New York
Credit Kynaston McShine Papers, V.D.61. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
Object number ARCH.522.2
Department Archives

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Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter

Argentine, born 1941 69 works online

Liliana Porter’s prints from the 1960s and ’70s seem to be a curator or conservator’s nightmare. Paper is scratched, torn, wrinkled, and otherwise transformed from the pristine flat sheet bearing an image to one that seemingly shows the evidence of mishandling and carelessness.

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