Vik Muniz Pgc Final
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Vik Muniz:
“A Twisted Kind of Realist”
“Some early man threw his spear at a bison only to discover that it
wasn’t a bison but a termite mound that carried an uncanny resemblance to a bison. He was
“fooled” by nature. He went back to the tribe and told the
other hunters about the bison. Soon they were throwing their spears at the termite mound while he crouched behind the
bushes laughing. That was the first artist.”
– Vik Muniz
Two Ways of Life,O.G. Rejlander, 1858
Early Photography
Double Mona Lisa after Warhol, Vik Muniz, 1999
PB&J Mona Lisa
0: Biography
The Artist’s Studio
1: Artistic Experimentation / Works and Processes
Clown Skull, from Relics
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917
Faux Readymades
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917
Faux Readym
Ashanti Joystick,from Relics
Tug of War, 1989Tug of War
Tug of War, 1989
“collapse each into the other's reality in order to subvert ultimately their respective reality-
claims”
Tug of War
I Am What I Read (Entertainment Center), 1989
I Am What I Read
Tug of War, 1989Tug of War
Brancusi
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“…To photograph an object is to transform it
into a mental substance…”
Veronica (from Individuals Series),Vik Muniz, 1992-93
Individuals Series
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Man Ray, Jean Cocteau Creating a Self-Portrait
Out of Wire, 1926Jean Cocteau
Pictures of Wire
Pictures of Wire
Pictures of Thread
Wanderer Above the Sea of Ashes,After Caspar David Friedrich, 1999
Wanderer Above the Sea of Ashes
Pillows 1999
Beggars & Pillows
Pillows 1999
Pillows 1999
Piss Christ, Andres Serrano, 1989
Oxidation, Andy Warhol, 1978
Madonna and Child, Andres Serrano, 1989
Warhol / Serrano
Piss Christ, Andres Serrano, 1989
Oxidation, Andy Warhol, 1978
“Serrano’s photographs were not piss,
they were yellow… Warhol, on the other hand, showed the real thing and
made an abstraction out of it…
I want to work with both notions simultaneously without
relying too much on outside explanations…”
In my work, I am not that interested in the nature of the material that I photograph as much as in
the way the viewer recognizes the material in the photograph. Serrano’s
work relies on the viewers’ awareness of information about the subject; Warhol, on
information about the process.
Warhol / Serrano Quote
Magazines, Light Filters, Ink
Peter Jennings(Light Filters)
Edson, from(Pictures of Magazines) Yogi Berra,
(Pictures of Ink)
Light Filters
Peter Jennings(Light Filters)
Yogi Berra,(Pictures of Ink), 2000Pictures of Ink
PicturesOfMagazines
Edson, from“Pictures of Magazines,” 2003
The Treachery of Images,Rene Magritte, 1928-29
Peter Jennings (Light Filters), 1999
Treachery of Images
“Vaccine” Photos
Pictures of Chocolate
…introduces us to
unconscious optics as does
psychoanalysis to
unconscious impulses
Rosharch (After Warhol),from “Pictures of Chocolate” 1999
Pictures of Chocolate
Action Photo, after Hans Namuth, 1997,Pictures of Chocolate Series
Toy Soldier from Monads Series, 2003
“Each monad is a distinct
individual possessing its own kind or degree of
consciousness and existence”
Monads
Toy Soldier from Monads Series, 2003
Unidentified photographer, Portrait of Pvt. Edwin Francis Jemison, 2nd Louisiana Regiment C.S.A., ca. 1860-62
Monads Soldier
The Cottingley Fairies, After Elsie Wright, Rebus Series, 2004
Rebus Fairies
Alice Liddell (after Lewis Carroll), 2004
Alice Liddell dressed up as a beggar-maid, Charles
Dodgson 1858
Rebus
Alice
Liddell
Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Jan Ader), (Rebus) 2003
Rebus Self Portrait
I’m Too Sad To Tell YouRebus Self-Portrait
I’m Too Sad To Tell You
Rebus Self-Portrait
“Pictures mean
different things at
different
distances”
Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Van Ader), (Rebus) 2003
Rebus Self
Portrait
I Am Too Sad To Tell You, Bas Jan Ader, 1970
Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Jan Ader), 2003
(Rebus Series)
Muniz / Ader
“Children for me are very important. They are in that class of
people who understand power, like magicians and con men. We are
born with everything. But I think we forget.”
-- Vik Muniz
…I believe the metaphor of the Peaceable Kingdom has
everything to do with our lost childhood power of imaginative naming and our blissful ignorance of ourselves as an image… This curse has resulted in a cultural lifetime of self-control, self-censorship, and
estrangement from unadulterated wonder…”
-- Mark Alice Durant
“Peaceable Kingdom”
Expulsion From Paradise,Brancacci Chapel,Masaccio, c. 1426
Brancacci
Rebus / Brancacci
Other works
Starry Night, from “The Back of Paintings,” 2002
Shadowgrams
Aftermath series
Pictures of Junk
Memory Renderings
Earthworks /“Earthworks”
Castle on a Grain of Sand,2005
A Creative Time Project(YAY LEENIE)
Cloud Cloud
Brushstroke,from Pictures of Chocolate
“The painter constructs, the photographer
discloses”
– Susan Sontag, “Heroism of vision”
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