Vik Muniz Untitled

dimensione ambiente/dimensions variable

Vik Muniz trained as a graphic designer in Brazil, and then, at the end of the 1980s, moved to the United States, where he established himself on the world art scene. The immediacy of advertising techniques, the use of irony and illusion, have been a constant in all his works. The best-known works are landscapes, historical images, self portraits and international art masterpieces, made with unusual materials such as chocolate, butter, sugar, paper, toys and discarded objects. To use the words of the artist, these are “photographic delusions”, large-scale photographic prints that make it possible to capture the portrait’s subject only from a distance, with the materials that make up the texture taking on greater importance up close. "Untitled" is part of an early series of works created at the end of the 1980s, which combine sculpture and photography, playing on the polarity between reality and replication. The work is composed of three different sized frames held together by black rubber tubes that become transformed in the corresponding camera image. Uniting in a single work the threedimensionality of sculpture and the two-dimensionality of photography, Muniz creates an interesting hybrid that combines illusion and reality.

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G. Celant (ed.), Vik Muniz, exhibition catalogue (Rome, MACRO-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma), Milan 2003. V. Muniz, J. Elkins, M. dos Anjos, S. Rice, Vik Muniz. Obra incomplete. Incomplete works, Rio de Janeiro 2004. E. Respini, L. Sante, V. Muniz, Vik Muniz. Verso, Milan 2009. A. Ollman, D.B. Wechsler, Vik Muniz, London 2016.

Foto Roberto Galasso

Donation by Claudia Gian Ferrari

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