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Vik Muniz: Pictures of America – Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland, January 16 – March 5

The Xippas Gallery of Geneva is happy to present the exhibition Pictures of America by the artist Vik Muniz. A magician of images, Vik Muniz uses unlikely materials – copper wire, chocolate, caviar, ketchup, dust, toys, diamonds, and trash – to construct images that are part of our collective visual memory. These images are then photographed, in order to create distance between themselves from the originals items, and to bring us face to face with the illusions of representation.

Pictures of America gathers a set of artworks inspired by the American history, reinterpreted by the Brazilian artist. From the Statue of Liberty, to the Demoiselles d’Avignon, MoMa’s masterpiece composed in puzzle pieces, to the Andy Warhol’s Race Riot, remembering the numerous ethnical conflicts that tore apart the continent, each piece narrates Vik Muniz’s vision of America. Masterpieces, celebrities, myths and clichés, everything is redrawn and reinterpreted.