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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Vik Muniz Side Table – Handcrafted Leather, Brass, FSC Wood in 3 Tones
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
Designed by renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, this striking side table reimagines the everyday needle reel in a bold, sculptural form. Enlarged in scale and offered in three rich ...
Leather, Hardwood
Vik Muniz Button Side Table – FSC Tauari Wood, Sculptural Design by +55design
By Vik Muniz
Located in Jardim America, SP
Renowned Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, known for his playful and conceptual approach to everyday objects, reimagines the humble button in this sculptural side table created in an exclu...
Hardwood
$1,257
H 18.51 in W 13.78 in D 11.82 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This is one of those pieces where the wood and the maker seem to have arrived at the form together. Carved from a single solid log, the body tapers and swells with a fluidity that fe...
Wood, Walnut
$1,076
H 19.69 in W 10.24 in D 11.42 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This sculptural side table is a one-of-a-kind piece of functional art, carved entirely by hand from a single hardwood log. Its form rises from a wide, grounded base that narrows grac...
Wood, Walnut
Handcrafted English Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand turned and handcrafted English side table in walnut. The top surface has a slight rounded edge and the base a superb concave rim ascending to join the centre column....
Walnut
Handcrafted Walnut Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully turned and completely handcrafted walnut side table in a modernist design. This is a bespoke piece of the finest quality, handmade by our master craftsman in the UK usin...
Walnut
Handcrafted English Ash Side Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted English ash rippled side table in the modernist design. This is a fine quality bespoke piece - handmade by our master-craftsman in solid Engli...
Ash
Handcrafted English Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand turned and handcrafted English sycamore/maple and walnut side table in the modernist design. The top surface has a pillowed ripple turned underside and the base a su...
Sycamore, Walnut, Maple
Handcrafted Modernist Side Drink Table
By SUM Furniture
Located in London, GB
Beautifully hand-turned and handcrafted English ash ripple side table in the modernist design. This is a bespoke piece of fine quality, handmade by master-craftsmen in solid English ...
Ash
$1,375
H 19.3 in W 15.36 in D 12.21 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This piece shows what happens when the wood is allowed to lead. Carved from a single solid log, the form follows the natural movement of the timber rather than imposing geometry onto...
Wood, Walnut
$1,376
H 18.51 in W 10.24 in D 13.39 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This unique side table or stool is a one-of-a-kind functional sculpture, carved from a single piece of wood to highlight its organic character and structural permanence. Its form fea...
Wood, Walnut
$1,257
H 20.08 in W 11.03 in D 13 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This unique stool is a functional work of art, carved from a single piece of wood to showcase its natural flow and structural beauty. Its form features a smooth, rounded top that tap...
Wood, Walnut
$849
H 18.51 in W 11.03 in D 12.21 in
Sculptural Side Table, Stool, Solid Wood, Walnut, Contemporary Design, Logniture
By Logniture
Located in Stara Gradiška, HR
This extraordinary sculptural side table is a one of a kind piece, carved entirely by hand from a single solid hardwood log. Its captivating form is defined by an elegant, continuous...
Wood, Walnut
Andrianna Shamaris Two Tone Petrified Wood Side Table
By Andrianna Shamaris
Located in New York, NY
Two tone petrified wood side table with added clear resin as shown in the close up images. We have a pair cut from the same log. The price and images reflect the one shown. It’s fasc...
Wood, Reclaimed Wood, Petrified Wood