Vik Muniz
Brazil, active United States
b. 1961

Untitled
Porcelain Plate
Sweeney Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Gift of the Norton Family
99.3.1

Vik Muniz's artwork is photographic in nature. Often taking pictures of pictures. Muniz demands the "viewer to re examine his perceptual repairs and to re evaluate his ways of looking at a photograph as an object and as a presence."
He is known for utilizing materials such as, wire, sugar, dirt, and chocolate in order to create his own representations of canonical artworks, which he then translates to photography. His work is influenced by painting, sculpture, drawing and design, specifically their intersection with photography. In this work the artist is commenting on, and re-representing, Caravaggio's 1590 painting, Medusa. Here, Muniz has rendered the Medusa in pasta marinara, which was photographed and transferred to a porcelain plate.

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