{"id":2002,"date":"2012-07-06T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:49:52","slug":"vik-muniz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/06\/vik-muniz\/","title":{"rendered":"Vik Muniz"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw an article over on\u00a0Colossal Art & Design<\/a>\u00a0on a new show by\u00a0Vik Muniz<\/a>, and thought I’d share it here. Muniz was born in Sao Paolo, & now lives & works in Brooklyn. Over the years he’s done a lot of “experimental collage” for want of a better description, working with: sugar; fake diamonds; cigarette butts and ashes; toys, and (as in this case) magazines. Without too much commentary on what it is or is not, I was quite taken by his reworking of “Starry Night” by Van Gogh. There is something pleasantly obsessive about recreating brushstrokes with torn bits from magazines.<\/p>\n

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Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazines 2 Starry Night, after Van Gogh<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazines 2 Starry Night, after Van Gogh (detail<\/p><\/div>\n

Also charming is his reworking of “Picking Flowers in a Field” by Mary Cassatt.<\/p>\n

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Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazines 2 Picking flowers in a Field, after Mary Cassatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vik Muniz – Pictures of Magazines 2 Picking flowers in a Field, after Mary Cassatt (detail)<\/p><\/div>\n

This series is currently on display at Galerie Xippas (Paris). Click here to view more works from the series and\/or get more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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