VIK MUNIZ

SEP 23 - MAR 21, 20
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Exhibition organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne) and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) in association with the University of Navarra Museum.

Curator: Arthur Ollman
Dates: September 23, 2020, to March 21, 2021

THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition by the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz (Sao Paulo, 1961) features a selection of works by this artist, with special emphasis on his latest series. In his work, Muniz, who began his career as a sculptor, plays with images and objects to create works that transcend the mere photographic image to generate new interpretations of reality and its representation. In this way, he reinterprets and re-reads iconic works from universal history, as well as family photographs from his personal collection, using various materials without artistic character or connotations, such as chocolate, waste objects and rubbish, toys, and in his latest works even bacterial microorganisms. With all this, he creates new images, generally with a sculptural and three-dimensional character, from which the final work is generated, which for Muniz is always a photograph.

THE ARTIST

The distinctive practice of Vik Muniz (Sao Paulo, 1961) is the exploration and delight in the instability that exists between craftsmanship and mechanical reproduction, between the most sublime art and popular culture, between the ephemeral and the enduring, between the codified and the recognizable. Muniz has participated in numerous solo exhibitions and museums such as the Banco de la República Art Museum (Bogotá), the Beyeler Foundation, P.S. 1 MoMA (NYC), the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo), MACRO (Rome), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), and the Menil Collection (Houston), and his work is included in important private and public collections around the world. (© by Holger Keifel)

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Exhibition organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne) and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) in association with the University of Navarra Museum, thanks to the generosity of arts patron Gabriela Wilson.

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Related activities

• Masterclass with Ignacio Miguéliz. 
• Children's workshops "after Vik Muniz"
• Workshop with the artist
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