VikMuniz

Vik Muniz, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China, March 18 – May 8

Vik Muniz, the artist’s first solo exhibition at Matthew Liu Fine Arts, features 14 works from several important series throughout his oeuvre. In Pictures of Magazines series II (2011-2013), Muniz employs torn paper pieces from popular magazines to recreate the iconic images of tourist sites and paintings. The intersection and rich layering of text and image render the masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Gustave Caillebotte delightfully kaleidoscopic, providing the viewers continuous visual pleasure. Postcards from Nowhere series (2014) addresses to the materiality of photography, reclaiming the values that has been increasingly leached away in our inexorable march for advanced technology. In creating The Picture of Pigment series (2005-2011), Munize sprinkled colored powder pigment over reproductions of several minimalist works and photographed them from above. Created in 2011, Crane demonstrates the artist’s belief that art can facilitate transformations in the society. Worked in collaboration with school children in the New York City, this work aimed to benefit the victims of 2011 tsunami in Japan.

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Vik Muniz

Matthew Liu Fine Arts
March 18 – May 08, 2015.

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