20 minute loop
124 x 164 inches
The Collection (descending) creates a single object
from the holdings of one museum. Over 100,000 works
are ordered by date - descending in time from the
21st century - by collection, type, genre,
location, and artist. Along with presenting the 5%
of works exhibited in the museum at any one time,
the piece also includes the other 95% in storage
from textiles, hats, plates, glass, miniatures,
baskets, reliquaries, statues, landscape paintings,
portraits, coins, photographs, furniture, drawings,
and manuscripts to over 60,000 works on paper,
among others.
Originally created in 1999, the work was
re-commissioned in 2005 for the opening of the de
Young Museum designed by architects Herzog & de
Meuron.
> link to de Young
Museum