Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist currently working out of New York.
Muniz is well known for his broad range of experimental works. While he started his career as a sculptor, his practice today is almost entirely photo-based — creating works but then photographing them.
Muniz’s interest in human visual understanding is the running theme behind the majority of his work, of which a photograph called Key, from Earthworks is a perfect example. The "Earthworks" series also includes images of electrical outlets, tobacco pipes, footprints, scissors, dice, paper airplanes, envelopes, and coat hangers. The juxtaposition of intimate, inanimate objects and the living, changing landscape renders this photographic series truly striking.
Muniz's innovative and shifting methods of visual communication are what constantly earn him recognition and admiration internationally. He frequently destabilizes the conventions of the art history canon by revisiting or appropriating conventions and icons but realizing them in unconventional materials and creative strategies.
Muniz's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name a few.
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The Tower of Babel, After Bruegel Chromogenic Print, Signed, 2007
By Vik Muniz
Located in Aventura, FL
Chromogenic print. Signed and dated "Vik Muniz 2007" on a label affixed to the reverse. From the edition of 6. Custom framed as pictured. The artwork is in excellent condition. All...
C Print
Price Upon Request
Key (from “Earthworks”)
By Vik Muniz
Located in New York, NY
Key (from “Earthworks”) 2006 Signed and numbered, verso Chromogenic print (Edition of 100) 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by Clam...
C Print
Photograph - CiCi's Moon River - framed
By John-Paul Pietrus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20x24 in. - Edn of 20 C print Signed, numbered, original Certificate of Authenticity from artist. Framed- Approx. 33 " X 29" outside frame measurement John-Paul Pietrus was born in...
C Print
$380
H 7.88 in W 9.85 in D 0.04 in
Hard Times (Bombay Beach, CA) - Polaroid, Landscape Photography
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Hard Times (Bombay Beach, CA) - 2022 20x25cm. Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with c...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$9,000
H 29 in W 37 in
Risky Landing C-Print with Diamond Dust, Framed, Contemporary, 2022
By David Drebin
Located in PARIS, FR
Series: Diamond Dust All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 31" X 39"- Edition of 10 Diamond Dust Collection Diamond Dust is a glittering material that...
Glitter, C Print
$700
H 18.9 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
There is a light that never goes out - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
There is a light that never goes out - 2017 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 18.9 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Mr. Postman - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Contemporary
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Mr. Postman, 2018 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory #PL2018 - 409. No...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 18.9 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Zabriskie - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Contemporary
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Zabriskie, 2018 - 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate Artist inventory PL2016-408. Not ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 18.9 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Diesel - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Contemporary
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Diesel - 2018 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018 - 414. Not m...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
$700
H 18.9 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Tyred - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Contemporary
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Tyred - 2018, 48x60cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist Inventory Number PL2018-408....
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Birds - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Birds - 2018, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-423 Not mounte...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Dalí was here (50x50cm) - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape, Color, Contempora
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Dalí was here - 2018, 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018-405...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$700
H 19.69 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Late for the sky - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Seagulls, Beach
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Late for the Sky - 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-98...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$410
H 7.88 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
East River View (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century
By Stefanie Schneider
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay', featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie Schneider's art was the art both characters created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie. East River View (Stay) - 2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No. 2598. Not mounted. Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13 Photography Art Cinema. Revisited Stay expands a traditional connection through new facets interwoven between the media of photography and film is a veritable mesh-work of technical, motific, metaphorical and personal interrelationships. Extending from photo-film which, as in La Jetée by Chris Marker (France, 1962) is a montage of single, unmoving photographs all the way to the portrayal of photographic motifs in Hollywood cinema―most recently in Memento (USA, 2000) and One hour photo (USA, 2002)―is the range of filmic-photographic interactions on the one hand, and from the adaption of modes of cinematic production to the imitation of film stills on the other. For instance, with the legendary Untitled Film Stills (1978) of the American artist Cindy Sherman, who later made her debut as a film director with Office Killer (USA, 1997) and thereby, like many others, changed sides: Wim Wenders, Robert Frank and Larry Clark are doubtlessly the most successful of these photographic-filmic border crossers. This brief survey provides only a vague indication of the dimensions of this intermedial field, which in fact extends much further and is constantly being cultivated. Also as a motif in film, photography has experienced a historical transformation: Photographers were once considered to be technicians who mastered a craft but never achieved the status of artists. Photographer-figures were caught in the allure of beautiful appearance, incapable of penetrating to the actual essence of things. Such depth was reserved for literature or painting. When photography in film touched upon the sphere of art, then most often as its contrasting model, as the metaphor for a superficial access to the world. Coming to mind are Fred Astaire as a singing fashion photographer in Stanley Donen’s musical film Funny Face (USA, 1957), or the restless lifestyle-photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s genre-classic Blow up (GB, 1966). For the doubting Thomas, only that exists which can be photographed. He ultimately enters the world of fantasy and thereby the field of art only unwillingly, when he becomes entangled in the world of his images. The last of his detail-enlargements shows only the photographic grain and has lost all connection to reality. The photograph looks as if it had been painted by Bill, the painter who is both friend and antagonist to the protagonist. Photography as Art It was first around the end of the last century that numerous filmmakers discovered photography as a genuine art form. In The Bridges of Madison County (USA, 1995) a sensitive Clint Eastwood stands, camera in hand, on the threshold of artistic status, and in Smoke (USA, 1994) a tobacco merchant ripens into a philosopher through his involvement in photography. Finally, in John Water’s parody of the art market, Pecker (USA, 1998), a provincial tom-fool is hyped into celebrated stardom amid the New York art scene because of his blurred snapshots. This film about a postmodern Kaspar Hauser in photographic art (with clear parallels to Richard Billingham, the British shooting...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Wheat Field with Cypresses, after Van Gogh
By Vik Muniz
Located in New York, NY
Vik Muniz Wheat Field with Cypresses, after Van Gogh (Pictures of Magazines 2), 2011 Digital C-Print 40 x 50.5 inches (101.6 x 128.3 cm) Edition of ...
C Print
Woods in November, after Albert Renger-Patzsch
By Vik Muniz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pictures of Paper series, edition of 5 APs