Vik Muniz in Montevideo - From 15 December 2010 to April 27, 2011
Today I learned through the art column "Eye x Eye" which has my drawing teacher, Gustavo Fernández, in radio "The spectator", the presence of the work of this artist in Montevideo Vik Muniz's photographs appear to be creations of a sorcerer or a virtuoso, his manipulations appear at first sight detached from the medium of photography. Vik Muniz recreates with unusual materials but never arbitrary: yarn, jam, chocolate sauce, ketchup, dust, toys, pigments, etc., Iconography drawn from the history of art and media, images that belong to our collective visual history and will always resemble the conceptual prototype we have of them. These images are photographed for not giving the origins of their birth and create an illusionistic representation from the most famous nineteenth-century landscapes to life with thread, until Warhol's images recreated in chocolate, from the images created for the exhibition Powder Muniz at the Whitney Museum in New York until the color images and pictures of Air displayed at the Biennale in Venice, the images of diamonds and caviar in the series Diamond Divas and Caviar Monsters ... references have varied but the illusion is complete.
Exposure - The first solo exhibition Vik Muniz in Montevideo Xippas Contemporary Art presents 16 photographic works spanning paradigmatic aspects of the past 20 years of production. The main room of the gallery exhibiting 7 works based on paintings by Picasso, 5 Pictures of Pigment (2007) and 2 Puzzles Gordian (2009). Photographs of various portraits pigments recreated from the use of powder pigments that are manufactured with oil paints or acrylic. The 2 works in the series Gordian Puzzles are recreations of the two most famous works of Pablo Picasso: Guernica and Le Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), a work seminal to the history of art and the birth of the Cubist movement.
The sample also includes a set of 9 works representing eight different series, from a couple of Equivalents: Cloud pictures (1993) based on photographic experiments on clouds of Alfred Stieglitz, played by Muniz with cotton, a majestic view Botafogo and Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro built with paper overlays (Images of Paper, 2009), a work of the pigment series of pictures devoted to Mark Rothko, and specific examples of Diamond Divas (Romi Schneider, 2004), Pictures of Chocolate (The Cathedral of León series based on the Impressionist Monet), and a great work of the series Pictures of hogwash, based on the representation of the fall of Icarus, the Renaissance painter Titian.
The process of creating your images allows you to perform various characters: sometimes full of mischief and irony, others as a painter, sculptor, photographer and theorist at the same time. His works offer an image that is both sensual and ambiguous but, above all things into question the processes of perception. Leads us to doubt, by a constant questioning of our ability to observe and understand: "The vision is mostly a form of intelligence and the recognition or identification is a kind of comfort. "Thus his work is comfortably familiar, but we can achieve a background that goes beyond the identification process.
The artist - Muniz was born in Sao Paulo 1961. He moved to New York in 1984, he begins to absorb and incorporate images and icons work Americans. His first sculptures were trompe l'oeils: a football bronze cast painted to look real, or plastic Skull clown who was shown as an archaeological find in a clown nose added. In 1988 when he lost his book The Best of life begins to redraw the images as remembered and to photograph. This was a part of your work issues to be addressed in the next 20 years: the nature of observation and the role of photography in it.
international institutions have organized solo exhibitions devoted to Muniz's work including: International Center of Photography, New York 1998, Museum of Modern Art, San Pablo and Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro 2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001; Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona 2002, Menil Collection, Houston 2002, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Saint-Jacques de Compostella, Spain 2003, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome 2003, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2004 and the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin 2004. In 2001 Muniz represented Brazil in the 49 edition of the Venice Biennale.
The exhibition Vik Muniz-opened on Wednesday December 15 2010 and will be open until April 27, 2011. Visiting hours: Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 19:00 and Saturday 12:00 to 16:00. On Tuesday December 14 was screened for the first and only time the Waste Land documentary, which chronicles the trip he made to Jardim Gramacho Muniz, the world's largest landfill located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Xippas Contemporary Art, Bartolome Mitre, 1395.
Phone: 2915 5013 / montevideo@xippas.com
The sample also includes a set of 9 works representing eight different series, from a couple of Equivalents: Cloud pictures (1993) based on photographic experiments on clouds of Alfred Stieglitz, played by Muniz with cotton, a majestic view Botafogo and Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro built with paper overlays (Images of Paper, 2009), a work of the pigment series of pictures devoted to Mark Rothko, and specific examples of Diamond Divas (Romi Schneider, 2004), Pictures of Chocolate (The Cathedral of León series based on the Impressionist Monet), and a great work of the series Pictures of hogwash, based on the representation of the fall of Icarus, the Renaissance painter Titian.
The process of creating your images allows you to perform various characters: sometimes full of mischief and irony, others as a painter, sculptor, photographer and theorist at the same time. His works offer an image that is both sensual and ambiguous but, above all things into question the processes of perception. Leads us to doubt, by a constant questioning of our ability to observe and understand: "The vision is mostly a form of intelligence and the recognition or identification is a kind of comfort. "Thus his work is comfortably familiar, but we can achieve a background that goes beyond the identification process.
The artist - Muniz was born in Sao Paulo 1961. He moved to New York in 1984, he begins to absorb and incorporate images and icons work Americans. His first sculptures were trompe l'oeils: a football bronze cast painted to look real, or plastic Skull clown who was shown as an archaeological find in a clown nose added. In 1988 when he lost his book The Best of life begins to redraw the images as remembered and to photograph. This was a part of your work issues to be addressed in the next 20 years: the nature of observation and the role of photography in it.
international institutions have organized solo exhibitions devoted to Muniz's work including: International Center of Photography, New York 1998, Museum of Modern Art, San Pablo and Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro 2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2001; Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona 2002, Menil Collection, Houston 2002, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Saint-Jacques de Compostella, Spain 2003, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome 2003, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid 2004 and the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin 2004. In 2001 Muniz represented Brazil in the 49 edition of the Venice Biennale.
The exhibition Vik Muniz-opened on Wednesday December 15 2010 and will be open until April 27, 2011. Visiting hours: Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 19:00 and Saturday 12:00 to 16:00. On Tuesday December 14 was screened for the first and only time the Waste Land documentary, which chronicles the trip he made to Jardim Gramacho Muniz, the world's largest landfill located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
Xippas Contemporary Art, Bartolome Mitre, 1395.
Phone: 2915 5013 / montevideo@xippas.com
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