Showing work by Brazilian artist to "revise the fees set out"
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Classified as a photographer, the multifaceted artist Vik Muniz (Sao Paulo, 1961) is actually a "great draftsman, sculptor and a great reader of art history, because it allows us to revise the fees set," said Ery Camara, coordinator of Exhibitions of the Old Colegio de San Ildefonso, in announcing the shows with which the compound of Justo Sierra 16 participates in version 24 of the Festival de Mexico in the Historic Center.
For the museological, Muniz "reminds us that the artwork is merely a relationship, because every time someone is facing a complete piece, an exercise that recovers its freedom." That is, is a "game in which both players as they make a toy drive."
In particular his creative play, Muniz makes a Mona Lisa with jam or peanut butter, a diva of the film with diamond-before-Damien Hirst skull, or recreates an image with plastic soldiers, who then photograph.
Vik Muniz: Reflex, of the ordinary to the extraordinary traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Art in Miami, composed of 173 pictures divided into 25 series and three individual pieces, created since the late 80's, The Best of Life magazine Until recent work, Piles (2005), will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 15, to 20 hours.
The artist, said Camara, began his career as a sculptor in his native land, but after the events at school and having an accident, he went to Chicago with an aunt. There is still a child, "he knew everything and the difficulties of living in America." Always interested in art, he saw that the sculpture was not what I want.
"By making the objects continues Camara-and-see a certain rawness in his performance, began to use photography to get the best angle of his sculptures. At the same time in that speech carefully works with photography illuminations that allow certain mutations to the object. That's when the picture comes to be compared to an original object, a process that allows you to challenge all the problems of representation, perception and interpretation. "
Muniz came to the United States in the company of a special edition of Life, with the best photographs of the magazine, which he served as a bedside book to remember certain social events, including matters of war or injustice, said the museographers.
Losing the magazine was a tremendous blow, Vik then began to draw pictures of their memory, sometimes with the help of comments from his friends.
By the end of its range, rather than presenting it as such, the first photographed. When "the public will not recover the precision that would have had an immediate playback, he realizes that everyone gets the gist of his memories to be before an image and, therefore, interpreted differently than its author or another person. "
Vik Muniz will be in Mexico on Sunday, 13, the first to participate in a children's workshop, and then to 16 hours will give a talk at the Old College of San Ildefonso.
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