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Michael Gunzberger at Winkleman Gallery is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Animal Art

The Daily Pic: Michael Gunzberger gets sleeping beasts to make pictures of themselves.

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Courtesy the Michael Gunzburger, Christinger De Mayo Gallery, Zurich and Winkleman Gallery, New York; photo by Etienne Frossard)
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I recently saw this pelt-of-a-print by Swiss artist Michael Günzburger at Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea. Günzburger tells me that it was made by taking a large and live brown bear, already doped for a medical procedure, and manhandling him onto the lithographic plates for this life-size image.

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