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Vik Muniz Eiffel Tower (Postcards from Nowhere), 2015

Vik Muniz, Eiffel Tower (Postcards from Nowhere)
Vik Muniz, Eiffel Tower (Postcards from Nowhere)
Vik Muniz, Eiffel Tower (Postcards from Nowhere)
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About the work

  • Medium

    Photography : C-print

  • Dimensions cm | inch

    40 x 59.7 inch

  • Support

    Photography on aluminium

  • Framing

    Black wood frame with plexiglass

  • Artwork dimensions including frame

    41.3 x 61.8 inch

  • Type

    Numbered and limited to 10 copies
    1 remaining copy

  • Authenticity

    Work sold with an invoice from the gallery
    and a certificate of authenticity

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    Signed artwork

  • About the artwork

    Artwork sold in perfect condition

    The edition of this photograph includes 6 copies and 4 artist proofs.
    It also exists in the format 188 x 277 x 5 cm (framed).
    The image of the work in situation, presented here, corresponds to the large format.
    Delivery costs in Paris and its suburbs offered.

    In "Postcards from Nowhere", the artist reconstructs the most stereotypical representation of a certain place using hundreds of fragments of postcards depicting this specific place. Rich with symbols and information concerning the reconstructed place, these fragments function similarly to hypertext and allow the viewer to weave his own narrative.Imbued with nostalgia, this series evokes the fragmentation of contemporary visual experience all the while highlighting the materiality of photography.
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Vik Muniz
Brazil Born in: 1961 Masterpieces

Vik Muniz is a contemporary artist from Brazil born in 1961 in São Paulo. He currently lives in New York .

A child from poor neighborhoods, he discovered art in books he borrowed from the library and obtained a scholarship to attend evening classes.

One day, he witnesses a settling of scores in the street. Wounded by gunshot, he is offered a sum of money by the aggressor to preserve his silence. It was with this money in his pocket that he decided to move to Chicago, then to New York. He settled in Brooklyn and went on several jobs before joining a workshop. He then began his artistic activity with sculpture .

Vik Muniz definitely embarked on an artistic career in the early 1980s. Very quickly, he created a recognizable personal style for himself. The artist reuses waste and low-tech elements to create clean works, or reinvest in art classics. Dust, cigarette ends, puzzle, magnets, toys… Muniz is capable of transforming any material into a medium. He then takes a photograph of the assembled work. The illusion of the image disconcerts the spectators. Through his work, Muniz invites us to take a different look at familiar masterpieces in which he has inserted elements of everyday life.

Thanks to this approach, he obtained international recognition in 1997 with the series of paintings “Pictures of Chocolate", painted in chocolate. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) then offered him his first exhibition. He repeated the feat in 2006 with the series “Pictures of Junk", this time made from garbage from our daily life as consumers and thus confirms its anchoring on the world contemporary art scene.

In the 2000s, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked for three years with residents living near one of the largest landfills in the world. They collect garbage for him which he will use to create works of art. He is filmed in his approach by Lucy Walker who will sign the documentary "Waste Land" in 2010, relating this adventure. The sale of these works at Sotheby's in London made it possible to redistribute the money earned - around € 250,000 - to the Brazilian community in question.

His work is exhibited all over the world, in renowned cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York, the European House of Photography in Paris or at the Tate Modern in London.

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