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Hans Haacke
Blue Sail, 1964-1965

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Blue Sail
Artist name
Hans Haacke
Date created
1964-1965
Classification
installation
Medium
chiffon, oscillating fan, fishing weights, and thread
Dimensions
132 × 128 in. (335.3 × 325.1 cm)
Date acquired
2005
Credit
Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2005.185.A-B
Artwork status
On view on floor 5 as part of Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s in the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

A pioneer of institutional critique, artist Hans Haacke creates conceptual works that expose connections among money, art, and politics. Haacke recounts the realizations that inspired him to explore the relationships between art and the outside world, as in his SFMOMA collection work News (1969).

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