Pictures of Anything. 25 years of the artist's oeuvre
This comprehensive exhibition of Vik Muniz (born in Brazil, 1961) covers 25 years of the artist's oeuvre, in which familiar images from the history of art and other sources are transformed in scale and into unexpected materials - sugar, chocolate, ketchup, diamonds, dust and garbage - in a process culminating in a new photographic image. Muniz' work challenges conventional viewing and raises questions about appropriation, original and copy. The exhibition includes most of his series, including "Pictures of Chocolate," "Pictures of Dust," "Pictures of Earth" and "Pictures of Garbage." Exhibition curated by Suzanne Landau (Image: Action Photo, after Hans Namuth, 1997 From the series Pictures of Chocolate Digital C-print, 150x120 Courtesy of Xippas Galleries C Vik Muniz and the Estate of Hans Namuth/VAGA, New York)