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<p>Vik Muniz makes photographs that challenge the nature of visual illusion and our faith in the truthfulness of representation. The clever and irreverent artist has found endless source material in the world of images, from popular culture to art-historical masterworks to portraits of friends. Using such varied media as chocolate syrup, string, wire, dust, toys, and holes punched from magazines, he makes remarkable pictures that he then photographs. Over the past 20 years, Muniz has become one of the most innovative and important artists of his generation.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1997
- Medium
- Silver dye-bleach print
- Dimensions
- Image: 33.8 × 42.7 cm (13 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.); Paper: 53.2 × 52.7 cm (21 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Vik Muniz
Artist
Photography
Best known for his witty, unexpected recreations of canonical art historical and pop culture imagery, Vik Muniz creates intricately layered photographic works that explore the nature of visual cognition and the transcendent area between perception and reality. From a peanut butter and jelly Double Mona Lisa (indebted, of course, to Andy Warhol’s treatment of da Vinci’s original masterwork) to a Bosco chocolate syrup rendering of one of Hans Namuth’s photographs of Jackson Pollack, Muniz uses unconventional materials to heighten effect. His signature process – using mixed media and found materials to create large-scale renderings that are discarded after being photographed – again alludes to the constructed nature of memory and perception.
Brooklyn, NY, USA; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Self Portrait (Lucky)
2005 · Chromogenic print, printed 2009
Narcissus, after Caravaggio
2005 · Chromogenic print
Death of a Loyalist Militiaman Frederico Borrell García, after Robert Capa
2004 · Chromogenic print, printed 2009
Lee Harvey Oswald After Sigmar Polke
2001 · Silver dye bleach print
Migrant Mother, after Dorothea Lange
2000 · Chromogenic print, printed 2009
Still, after Cindy Sherman (from Pictures of Ink)
2000 · Silver dye bleach print
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- Vik Muniz
- Year
- 1997
- Medium
- Silver dye-bleach print
- Dimensions
- Image: 33.8 × 42.7 cm (13 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.); Paper: 53.2 × 52.7 cm (21 × 20 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1997-123456
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified