Fernando Bryce Trotzky 2003

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Bryce describes his careful rendering of images and texts appropriated from newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and other historic documents as "mimetic analysis." While displaying technical ability, his reduction of the images to graphic black–and–white forms parodies the supposed objectivity of mass media. Bryce believes that his "critical homage" to the twentieth–century intellectual Leon Trotsky "points to a history that has been silenced and destroyed"—a history he inserts into the present for reconsideration.

Gallery label from Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, April 22, 2009–January 4, 2010.
Medium
Ink on ten pieces of paper
Dimensions
Each: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4" (41.9 x 29.8 cm)
Credit
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Object number
1381.2005.a-j
Copyright
© 2023 Fernando Bryce
Department
Drawings and Prints

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