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Maya Lin 1:5

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    Object Details

    Artist

    Karin Sander, born 1957

    Sitter

    Maya Ying Lin, born 1959

    Exhibition Label

    As a student at Yale University, Maya Lin (born 1959) redefined the conventional notion of a heroic war monument with her understated and controversial design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her work has continued to gain international attention, including large-scale installations such as Storm King Wavefield and what she describes as her “last memorial,” an environmentalist multimedia project titled What Is Missing.
    Karin Sander’s diminutive 3-D scanned portrait reflects the architect’s sense of herself as a small part of a global environment. Like so many of Lin’s own designs, the unconventionality of this portrait invites the viewer to look more closely and see the sitter in a new way.
    Siendo aún estudiante en la Universidad de Yale, Maya Lin (nacida en 1959) redefinió la noción convencional de los monumentos a los héroes de guerra con un sobrio y controversial diseño para el monumento a los veteranos de Vietnam en Washington, D.C. Sus obras han seguido recibiendo atención internacional, entre ellas instalaciones de gran escala como Storm King Wavefield y lo que describe como su “último monumento conmemorativo”: un proyecto ambientalista multimedia titulado What Is Missing.
    En su diminuto retrato escaneado en 3D, la artista Karin Sander transmite la idea de que Lin se concibe a sí misma como un pequeño componente de un entorno global. Al igual que muchos diseños de la arquitecta, el carácter poco convencional de este retrato invita al espectador a acercarse y mirar a la modelo de un modo diferente.

    Provenance

    Karin Sander [b.1957]; purchased NPG 2015

    Credit Line

    National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of the Academy of Achievement/Wayne and Catherine Reynolds; 2015 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient

    Date

    2014

    Object number

    NPG.2015.15

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Copyright

    © 2014 Karin Sander, Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. All Rights Reserved.

    Type

    Sculpture

    Medium

    3D color scan of the living person, polychrome 3D inkjetprint, plaster material, color, pigment ink, scale 1:5

    Dimensions

    Sculpture: 33 × 8.3 × 5.7 cm (13 × 3 1/4 × 2 1/4")

    Place

    United States\New York\Kings\New York\Manhattan Island
    Schweiz\Zürich\Zürich

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    National Portrait Gallery Collection

    Location

    Currently not on view

    Data Source

    National Portrait Gallery

    Topic

    Sculpture
    Maya Ying Lin: Female
    Maya Ying Lin: Arts and Culture\Visual Arts\Architect
    Maya Ying Lin: Portrait of a Nation
    Portrait

    Metadata Usage

    Usage conditions apply

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4521026ef-199b-4d4a-905e-d0c01146c4eb

    Record ID

    npg_NPG.2015.15

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