Vik Muniz
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Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvik muˈnis]; born 1961, São Paulo, Brazil), is a visual artist living in New York City.[1] Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s. In 2010, the documentary film Waste Land, directed by Lucy Walker, featured Muniz's work on one of the world's largest garbage dumps, Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The film was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 83rd Academy Awards.[2][3]
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Muniz specializes in remaking famous artworks with materials other than paint, and then photographing them.[4] Muniz's Olympia, a Cibachrome print of his chocolate-syrup rendering of Edouard Manet's 1863 oil painting of the same title is an example of his work and is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Muniz makes photographs that look like something other than what they actually show, for example, photographing cotton to look like clouds.[5]
Muniz has had solo shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The International Center of Photography, Paco Imperial in Rio, MACRO in Rome among others. His work is in the collections of the MOMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Daros Latin America, Zurich, Switzerland, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Pãulo, Brazil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Colección D.O.P., The Tate Gallery, London, UK, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and The Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City as well as the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.[citation needed]
Early career [edit]
Muniz arrived in New York in 1983 and worked as a framer.[6] He also took theatre and scenography classes at the New School and the New York University.[citation needed] A friend lent him a studio, where he started his career as a sculptor, which led him to his first solo exhibit in 1988.[6] He began experimenting with drawing and photography, ultimately combining these media in a series of images he made of families that worked on sugar plantations on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.[6] Beginning with Polaroids of several of the children of plantation workers, Muniz "drew" their images with sprinkled sugar and rephotographed these compositions. The finished work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's "New Photography" exhibit in 1997.[6]
References [edit]
- ^ "Vik Muniz". Bio. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^ "Waste Land". wastelandmovie. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ Ryzik, Melena (February 2, 2011). "Documentary Drama at the Oscars". The New York Times. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (September 15, 2011). Vik Muniz: Pictures of Magazines 2. New York Times. "Over the years he has remade, and then photographed, Corot landscapes from thread, Marilyn Monroe from diamonds, various Process Art pieces from dust and, perhaps most famously, sugar cane child laborers from sugar. Other works have employed luncheon meat, chocolate, coins, wire, spices, junk, tiny toys, dominoes and dry pigment."
- ^ Savedoff, Barbara (2010). "5. Authority and the Art of Photography". In Scott Walden. Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature. John Wiley & Sons. p. 129. ISBN 1444335081.
- ^ a b c d Kino, Carol. "Where Art Meets Trash and Transforms Life". The New York Times. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
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