Vik Muniz
Brazilian, born 1961
Medusa Marinara
INV-1542
Vik Muniz
Brazilian, born 19611997
Medusa Marinara
Vik Muniz Brazilian, born 1961 →silver-dye bleach printphotographic process
Date
1997
Medium
Silver dye-bleach print
Dimensions
Image: 33.8 × 42.7 cm (13 5/16 × 16 13/16 in.); Paper: 53.2 × 52.7 cm (21 × 20 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Vik Muniz and Brent Sikkema, NYC
Vik Muniz makes photographs that challenge the nature of visual illusion and our faith in the truthfulness of representation. The clever and irreverent artist has found endless source material in the world of images, from popular culture to art-historical masterworks to portraits of friends. Using such varied media as chocolate syrup, string, wire, dust, toys, and holes punched from magazines, he makes remarkable pictures that he then photographs. Over the past 20 years, Muniz has become one of the most innovative and important artists of his generation.
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