Passes (6 parts)

1971

Vito Acconci

Associated Names
Vito Acconci

Artist, American, 1940 - 2017

The image shows four black and white close-up photographs of a man. Each photo displays the man's face and upper body with different hand motions in front of his face. In the first image, his face is partly obscured by a blurred hand. The second photo shows his face partially obscured by a slightly blurred hand. The third image has the man directly facing the camera with his hand positioned horizontally in front of his mouth. In the last photo, he is covering his face with his hand while resting his elbow on the table. A hand-written note on the left side provides instructions for the poses, and on the right side, there's a label with "PASSES 1971 VIDEOTAPE, B/W 20 MIN."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    4 gelatin silver prints and 2 panels with paint, chalk and fixative

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen

  • Dimensions

    overall: 214.64 × 223.25 × 3.18 cm (84 1/2 × 87 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.93.1.a-f

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eileen and Michael Cohen, New York; gift to NGA, 2011.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

Inscriptions

on panel 1: on verso, by artist's hand, center in graphite: [a drawing indicating the way the whole six-part series should be hung, with a vertical column made up of #2,3,4, and 5 flanked by #1 on the left and #6 on the right]; by artist, lower center and right in graphite: PASSES #1; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up];
on panel 2: on verso, by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: PASSES #2 [arrow pointing up] / VA; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: A;
on panel 3: on verso, by artist's hand, lower center in graphite: PASSES #3; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 4: on verso, by artist's hand, lower right in graphite: PASSES #4 [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 5: on verso, by artist's hand, lower center in graphite: PASSES #5; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up] / VA 71;
on panel 6: signed by artist, lower right corner in chalk: VA Acconci 71; on verso, by artist, lower center in graphite: PASSES #6; lower right corner: [arrow pointing up]

Wikidata ID

Q64170029

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