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[ Three vertical panels depict a black flag against a blue sky background with white clouds. The top panel has two holes that depict eyes with the image of a city inside them. The middle panel has a hole that depicts a nose with the image of machinery inside. The bottom panel has a hole that depicts a mouth with the image of a crowd of people inside. ]
Vito Acconci
Flag Face , 1984
Artwork Type: Prints
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Dimensions: Composition: 12 in x 30 in ; Sheet: 12 in x 30 in
Dimensions: 12 x 30; 16 x 30; 20 x 30 inches
Accession #: 19901046
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , Gift of Vito Acconci
Related Exhibitions:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
Persuasive Images: Selected Works from the Art Collections at the University at Albany
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Vito Acconci (1940–2017, American)
was an influential video, performance,
and installation artist whose diverse
practice also includes sculpture,
architecture, and landscape design.
His early work pushed the boundaries
of performance and video art and
explored the artist’s relationship to
audiences through staged scenarios of
exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression,
and provocation. The lithograph titled
Flag Face was printed in 1984 at UAlbany
as part of the Albany Impressions Series.
Acconci’s image of a superimposed
human face on a collective symbol of a
flag confronts the viewer by presenting
multiple vantage points—we are the
viewer, yet the mask is watching us.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
–American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
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