One of the most innovative artists working today, Vik Muniz uses unconventional materials and photographic images that play with our perception process. The São Paulo, Brazil-born artist creates sculptural works with unusual materials such as chocolate syrup, tomato sauce, newspaper clippings, diamonds and garbage, which he then records with his camera. He calls the resulting images “photographic delusions” because they often resemble well-known images from art history and popular culture.
Often playing with scales, he has made huge drawings of land which he photographs from above, often suspended in the air. More recently, she has created microscopic works using microorganisms and single grains of sand. Either way, he makes the familiar feel familiar, highlighting the extraordinary power of vision, perspective and imagination.
This exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk Virginia is open July 13-October 14, 2018 and was co-organized by the Photography Exhibition Foundation, Minneapolis / New York / Paris / Lausanne and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta .
Image, Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b. 1961) Mahana No Atua (Day of the Gods), after Gauguin, from the series Pictures of Pigments, 2005
Chromogenic print, exhibition © Vik Muniz
