#Vik Muniz

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Vik Muniz (Brazilian, 1961), Flowers (Vaccinia Virus) Pattern, 2014. From Series of Colonies. Digital C print, 180.34 x 180.34 cm.

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VIK MUNIZ / "HANDS" / 1997 from PICTURES OF DIRT [gelatin silver print | 22 7/8 x 19"]

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Vik Muniz, Folded Semicircles (Cardboard), 2016,

From the Handmade series,

Cut cardboard over digital print mounted on Dibond,

30 h × 22 w in (76 × 56 cm)

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The Absinthe Drinker, after Edgar Degas, from Pictures of Magazines 2, Vik Muniz, 2011

Chromogenic print 54 x 40 in. (137.2 x 101.6 cm)

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Angelica (from Aftermath), 1999

Photo: Vik Muniz

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Marseille, il y a maintenant 3 semaines. Il y avait au MuCEM, une expo "Passions Partagées" sur la collection d'Yvon Lambert, face à certains objets du musée.

Urbain Ollié - chef-d'œuvre de sabotier - Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie), fin XIXe s.

Saint Isidore, patron des laboureurs - Bretagne, début XVIIIe s.

François Georgin - bois d'impression "Valeur et Humanité" - Epinal, 1830

Vik Muniz : "Le Semeur, d'après Van Gogh" (difficile à comprendre, c'est la photo d'une installation de milliers de fleurs coupées)

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Vik Muniz - Mesusa, After Bernini (Picture Of Chocolate) 2003

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Vik Muniz   (BR, 1961)

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Medusa, After Caravaggio (from Pictures of Junk), 2009. Digital dye coupler 88 × 71 in | 223.5 × 180.3 cm

Muniz’s art and his interest in activism often directly intersect, as in his photographic series “Pictures of Junk.” Muniz hired catadores (garbage collectors) to collect material and to serve as models for the figures in the famous works of art on which his images are based. The story was subject of Waste Land (2010) -an Oscar-nominated film-

Muniz’s project brought attention to the predicament of the pickers, who allied to form the Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho, Brazil. Although the country has very few municipal recycling programs, a significant percentage of its trash is reclaimed thanks to the work of pickers. Muniz donated $50,000 from the sale of a photograph from the series to the trash collectors who posed for the works and, along with the documentary filmmakers, has donated $276,000 to the workers’ collective. In 2011 he was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with the catadores.

He also opened the Escola Vidigal in the Vidigal favela, near his home in Rio, which offers preschool and after-school programs in art, design, and technology for underprivileged children.

 “I’m at this point in my career where I’m trying to step away from the realm of fine arts because I think it’s a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.”

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/vik-muniz-artist-and-activist

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/vik-muniz-medusa-after-caravaggio-from-pictures-of-junk

https://recyclinginternational.com/latest-articles/editors-top-picks/vik-muniz-proves-the-true-power-of-trash/26958/

http://vikmuniz.net/gallery/garbage

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Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is a contemporary art gallery in New York City representing artists such as Tony Feher, Arturo Herrera, Sheila Hicks, Vik Muniz, and Kara Walker.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Vik Muniz  Seeing is Believing

Charlea Stainback Ashley, Marl Alice Durant, Vik Muniz

Arena Editions

Arena Editions, Santa Fe 1998, 164 pages, 25 x 32 cm, Hardcover with dust jacket , ISBN  978-1892041005

euro 60,00

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Vik Muniz works with the syntax of photography, but his images are not simply photographic. As Vince Aletti has pointed out in the Village Voice, Muniz has teased the medium mercilessly and with an infectious glee. He makes pictures of picturessly, punning documents that subvert photography by forcing it to record not the natural world but a fiction, a simulation. Munizs pictures are illusions that draw from the language of visual culture, but they twist and redefine our perception to both the commonplace and the fantastic. Munizs images humorously, as well as critically, challenge our abilities to discern fact from fiction, reality from illusion. Utilizing a panoply of unorthodox materialsgranulated sugar, tomato sauce, chocolate syrup, a 16,000-yard piece of sewing thread, and soilMuniz first creates an image, sculpturally manipulates it, then photographs it. Whether a portrait, a landscape, or an iconic image from history, Munizs images are never what! they seem. This book, the artist s first monograph, is produced in conjunction with Muniz’s one-person exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, opening September 1998.

05/04/23

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Quimeras – 100 anos do Surrealismo no Espaço Arte M. Mizrahi

No centenário do surrealismo, o Espaço Arte M. Mizrahi apresenta a exposição coletiva Quimeras – 100 anos do Surrealismo, entre 11 de novembro a 14 de dezembro de 2024. Sob curadoria de Jurandy Valença, a mostra reúne um conjunto de 54 obras, entre pinturas, gravuras, desenhos, esculturas e fotografias, de 18 reconhecidos artistas nacionais e internacionais que oferecem diferentes interpretações…

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VIK MUNIZ / "BARRY LE VA" / 2000 [cibachrome print | 40 x 40"]

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Vik Muniz, Lee Harvey Oswald After Sigmar Polke, 2001

Sigmar Polke, Raster drawing, Lee Harvey Oswald

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Mudroom - Front Door Example of a large minimalist light wood floor entryway design with white walls and a medium wood front door

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