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==Works== |
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Muniz specializes in remaking famous artworks with materials other than paint, and then photographing them.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/arts/design/vik-muniz-pictures-of-magazines-2.html|title=Vik Muniz:Pictures of Magazines 2|first=Roberta |last=Smith| date=September 15, 2011|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|quote=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.}}</ref> ''Olympia'', a [[Ilfochrome|Cibachrome print]] in the collection of the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], is an example of this. Barbara Savedoff puts it: “He makes photographs that create the illusion that we are looking at some-thing other than what they actually show. A photograph of a cloud turns out to be really a photograph of cotton, a photograph of the moon landing turns out to be the photograph of a sketch.”<ref>Savedoff, Barbara. Page 129. "AUTHORITY AND THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY." (2010).</ref> |
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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, 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.{{cn|date=October 2012}} |
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==Early career== |
==Early career== |
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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 and Rio de Janeiro. 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.[1]
Early career
Muniz arrived in New York in 1983 and worked as a framer. He also took theatre and scenography classes at the New School and the New York University. A friend lent him a studio, where he started his career as a sculptor, which led him to his first solo exhibit in 1988. His next phase was experimenting drawing and photography. By portraying kids from a Caribbean island using sugar and photographing this work, he had gained exposure and was chosen by the Museum of Modern Art to its "New Photography" exhibit in 1997.[2] . The work consists on a series of black-and-white photo- graphic images showing the children whose parents and grandparents work on the sugar plantations on the island of Saint Kitts. According to scholar Barbara Savedoff , “The photographs are not of the children themselves; they are of sugar – sugar which has been used to “draw” the portraits – using Polaroid images as models. What we identify as a rather grainy photograph of a young girl is actually a photograph of sugar grains, meticulously arranged on black paper – a photorealist drawing in sugar.” </ref> Savedoff, Barbara. Page 129. "AUTHORITY AND THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY." (2010).
References
- ^ "Waste Land". wastelandmovie. Retrieved 2011-01-21.
- ^ New York Times
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