The Execution of Maximilian: Tableau Vivant for
Ten Participants - Part 1 (La Ejecución de
Maximiliano: Tableau Vivant para Diez
Participantes - 1a Parte)
2006
Naturalizations Series (Serie Naturalizaciones),
Begun 2002
One oil painting on wood (resulting view from figure #3 in tableau vivant),
and two drawings on paper (one floor plan for tableau and one simulation of ten views)
Painting (25 1/2 x 33 in), drawings (33 x 22 in each)
View of drawings and oil painting for Part 1 of installation
The Execution of Maximilian: Tableau Vivant for
Ten Participants - Part 2 (La Ejecución de
Maximiliano: Tableau Vivant para Diez
Participantes - 2a Parte)
2006
Naturalizations Series (Serie Naturalizaciones),
Begun 2002
Dimensions variable
10 oil paintings for wall, 10 oil paintings for floor,
10 mirror masks and reproduction of Edouard
Manet’s The Execution of Emperor Maximilian,
1867 (Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim)
Wall paintings (12 x 16 in each), floor paintings
(12 x 36 in each), masks (8 1/2 x 11 in each),
Manet reproduction (10 x 8 in)
Full view of installation (1)
Full view of installation (2)
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| Manet’s Execution of Maximilian | Museum visitors reenacting the moment through the installation at the Queens Museum of Art, NY, 2006 |
This work encourages the public to reenact The Execution
of Maximilian by wearing the masks provided on the wall
boards, and by standing on the platforms on the floor.
When ten visitors agree to create this tableau vivant, the
view resulting in the eyes of person #3 will be seen to
correspond to the painting in Part 1 of the project.
The re-enactment can also be done with fewer than ten
people, but for the masks to be of deeper interest they
require a minimum of two people.