{"data":{"id":"10937","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":10937,"topgoose_id":18361,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":10937,"title":"Actual Size: Munich Rotary","display_artist_text":"Michael Heizer","display_date":"1970","accession_number":"96.137","dimensions":"Dimensions variable","medium":"Six custom-made aluminum projectors with steel stands and six black-and-white film transparencies mounted between glass","department":"collection","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Gift of Virginia Dwan","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Unique","publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael Heizer, \u003cem\u003eActual Size: Munich Rotary\u003c/em\u003e, 1970. Six custom-made aluminum projectors with steel stands and six black-and-white film transparencies mounted between glass, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Virginia Dwan 96.137. © Michael Heizer. \u003cbr\u003ePhotography © Museum Associates/ LACMA, CA and artist. \u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1969, in a Munich suburb, Michael Heizer created \u003ci\u003eMunich Depression\u003c/i\u003e, a 16-foot-deep void with gently sloping sides that reached 100 feet in diameter. Viewers experienced the work in two ways: from a distance, as an interruption in the flat ground, and from within, as a gravel and earth interior forming a horizon line against the open sky above. After completing \u003ci\u003eMunich Depression\u003c/i\u003e, Heizer made the photographic projection installation \u003ci\u003eActual Size: Munich Rotary,\u003c/i\u003e a 360-degree view of \u003ci\u003eMunich Depression\u003c/i\u003e projected from large photographic glass plates created from Heizer’s own negatives and screened through six custom-made projectors. Like \u003ci\u003eMunich Depression\u003c/i\u003e, Heizer’s granular, black-and-white, actual-size projections of the gravel and earth sides, horizon, and ribbon of sky explore how optical perception is determined by location. The gallery, which normally allows us an exterior view of sculptures, here defines a negative space that encloses us in its interior. The installation does not simply document \u003ci\u003eMunich Depression\u003c/i\u003e—it also creates a parallel, independent work that emphasizes the tension between real space and its photographic counterpart.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Long black-and-white landscape projection spans the gallery wall with several standing projectors nearby.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:21:56.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:28.998-05:00","images":[{"id":101765,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/10937/96_137_vw5_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"594","type":"artist"}]}}}}