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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Vik Muniz: Reflex
February 11 - May 7, 2007
Vik Muniz
Self Portrait (I Am Too Sad to Tell You, after Bas Jan Ader) (Rebus)
2003
Chromogenic print
96 x 72 inches
Courtesy the artist
Click here to read the P.S.1 Newspaper article about this exhibition.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present a survey of photographic works by Vik Muniz. This show is a selection from a larger exhibition organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator Peter Boswell. This presentation, which includes photographs from each of the artist's major series, is edited by the artist, P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss, and Peter Boswell. Vik Muniz: Reflex is on view in the Second Floor Kunsthalle from February 11 through May 7, 2007.
Since the mid 1990s, Muniz has been incorporating everyday objects into his photographic process to create witty, bold, and often deceiving images based on photojournalism and art history. The Brazilian-born, New York-based artist makes pictures from dirt, diamonds, sugar, wire, string, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, dust, ketchup, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, junk, pigment, and other materials. Though Muniz's images are often familiar-borrowing from popular culture and Old Master artists-it is quickly evident that they are not what they seem. Using an approach that the artist calls "the worst possible illusion," the works are formed from materials gathered from everyday life, which Muniz arranges and photographs, rather than traditional artistic materials.
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