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Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b.1961)
LOT ID: 66123
Icarus, after Titian (from Pictures of Junk), 2006

Chromogenic Print (C-print), Digital Print
50 х 40 in. cm.
Signed
Edition AP 2/4 from ed. 6
Lot description
Vik Muniz, Icarus, after Titian (from Pictures of Junk), 2006. Digital c-print, 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm); framed size is 53 1/8 x 43 inches (135 x 109.2 cm). AP 2/4 from edition of 6. Signed.

Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz (b. 1961, São Paulo) has earned praise internationally for the photographic pieces he creates out of everyday materials including chocolate, peanut butter, sugar, and dirt. These images, inspired by current events, art history or famous figures, are familiar yet enigmatic. Initially taking the form of witty visual statements, his works question the way visual information is constructed, presented and then perceived by the viewer.

Widely collected, Muniz's work is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Daros Foundation, Zurich; and the Tate, London.
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  • Vik Muniz

    Minotaur after George Frederick Watts (Pictures of junk)
    color photograph
    (H 50, W 40.0) in.
    (127 x 101.5) cm.
    Ed. AP2/4
    Sold for: US$24,434
    Thursday, June 03, 2010
    Sotheby's Paris
    Lot 00210
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