We’re so vain, how could we resist this painstakingly produced drawing of an entire issue of ARTnews all on one sheet of paper with each page of the magazine reproduced atop the last to create a dense palimpsest?
It is the work of the Romanian artist Ciprian Muresan, who said in an email: The drawing is part of a series of five works, each taking as a starting point various art magazines issued in December 2016: ARTnews, Art Papers, Frieze, Art in America, and Afterall. All images reproduced in each magazine are rendered on a single sheet of paper in overlapping layers. Accumulating and superimposing the images is a destructive act, at the same time preserving the ‘identity’ of the magazine. By choosing magazines issued at the same time, my intention was to provoke a sort of a comparison of accumulation – as you might compare the ‘ashes’ or the chaos created by superimposition.
