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Vik Muniz: Poetics of Perception

A master of metamorphoses, Vik Muniz (Brazilian, Born 1961) presents familiar yet startling reconstructions combining drawing, sculpture, and photography. Over twenty years, Muniz has gained international renown for masterfully creating reproductions from the canons of art history and the archives of popular culture. His reconstructions are created from nontraditional materials such as soil, chocolate syrup, magazine clippings, industrial refuse, garbage, and diamonds. Muniz successfully juggles both the function and meaning of the materials, coaxing interplay between the two. Viewers may delight in the ingenuity of the constructed image, and delve into multiple layers of meaning.

Image: Vik Muniz, Pictures of Garbage Portfolio, Marat (Sebastiao), 2008, 36.75 x 30”, Digital chromogenic print, Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Art © Vik Muniz / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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