by Vik Muniz
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Best described as an artist who uses a camera, Vik Muniz blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, and photography. He has made a number of different series of photographs in which he constructs images--often portraits--out of materials such as sugar, chocolate syrup, and thread. In another series, he drew famous images (using his aforementioned nontraditional media), like the photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon, from memory. Muniz plays freely in the field of representation. And through his work, viewers witness the complicated separation between a real image that seems definitely to exist somewhere, and the means by which Muniz achieves a representation of that image--first re-creating it, then making a photograph. He writes that "illusion becomes a way to improve our understanding of what reality is and humor becomes a subject for serious investigation." By setting up images that aim to unsettle viewers' perceptual faculties as a way of expanding understanding, and stimulating discovery, Muniz takes part in a trend in image-making that includes artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Artschwager, and Thomas Demand.
Best described as an artist who uses a camera, Vik Muniz blurs the lines between painting, sculpture, and photography. He has made a number of different series of photographs in which he constructs images--often portraits--out of materials such as sugar, chocolate syrup, and thread. In another series, he drew famous images (using his aforementioned nontraditional media), like the photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon, from memory. Muniz plays freely in the field of representation. And through his work, viewers witness the complicated separation between a real image that seems definitely to exist somewhere, and the means by which Muniz achieves a representation of that image--first re-creating it, then making a photograph. He writes that "illusion becomes a way to improve our understanding of what reality is and humor becomes a subject for serious investigation." By setting up images that aim to unsettle viewers' perceptual faculties as a way of expanding understanding, and stimulating discovery, Muniz takes part in a trend in image-making that includes artists such as Gerhard Richter, Richard Artschwager, and Thomas Demand.
Published alongside his solo exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, Seeing Is Believing is the first monograph on Vik Muniz. The reproduction of the images on heavy, creamy paper is of exceptional quality, indicative of its publisher, Arena Editions. And the book includes two essays, one by Charles Ashley Stainback and the other by Mark Alice Durant, as well as a dialogue between Muniz and Stainback. --Loren E. Baldwin
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...this elegant survey of his work of the past 10 years offers evidence that he is no flash in the pan. -- The New York Times Book Review, Andy Grundberg
Mr. Muniz dances the rhumba with visual perception and temporarily folls the viewer into thinking it's the samba. In the book he says: "I have neither the interest nor the means to produce illusions that expand the concept of what an illusion is-George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are doing that for us . . .I want to make the worst possible illusion that will still fool the eyes of the average person." -- New York Times, September 25, 1998
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