Minimalist white geometric sculpture with a single exposed light bulb standing in a dark room.

Installations

False Center for L.A. (or: the New York Address)

1978–1979

Medium
Sound installation, four-channels, 4 min. looped, with wood construction, speakers, amplifier, and mushroom lamp
Dimensions
Overall: 96 1/2 × 49 3/4 × 49 3/4 in. (245.1 × 126.4 × 126.4 cm)
Accession number
79.32
Acquired
1979
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Gilman Paper Company and the National Endowment for the Arts
Reproduction credit
© Vito Acconci / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Vito Acconci, False Center for L.A. (or: the New York Address), 1978–1979. Sound installation, four-channels, 4 min. looped, with wood construction, speakers, amplifier, and mushroom lamp, overall: 96 1/2 × 49 3/4 × 49 3/4 in. (245.1 × 126.4 × 126.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Gilman Paper Company and the National Endowment for the Arts 79.32. © Vito Acconci / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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