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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(Biography provided by Caviar20)
'Medusa Marinara' by Vik Muniz for Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 1999
By Vik Muniz
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Caravaggio’s Medusa (Medusa Marinara) features an image of Muniz’s recreation of Caravaggio’s Medusa (1590, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) rendered in pasta marinara. The pasta “dr...
Porcelain
$348Sale Price|43% Off
H 6.7 in Dm 13 in
Massimo Lunardon Green Jellyfish-Tablet, Murano Glas, Medusa, Bowl
By Massimo Lunardon
Located in Hamburg, DE
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Murano Glass
$679 / item
H 5.71 in W 7.09 in D 7.09 in
Unique and Original Handmade Cast Bronze Decorative Medusa Bowl
By Alguacil & Perkoff Ltd.
Located in London, London
This unique and exquisite decorative Medusa™ bowl handcast in pure bronze. The piece is entirely handcrafted with great skills and talent. Cast using very traditional techniques, th...
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H 1.78 in W 7.88 in D 9.65 in
Black Forest Porcelain Dish Christmas Garland Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
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Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
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Bronze
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Black Forest Porcelain Dish Christmas Garland Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
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H 2.76 in Dm 13.59 in
Medusa Head Ceramic Bowl Hand-Thrown Studio Art, Centerpiece by Ambacht, 1970s
By Noomi Backhausen, Ambacht Volendam
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H 7.88 in Dm 8.67 in
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