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Vik Muniz

Chicago, after Aaron Siskind, 1999

Description

Maker

  • Vik Muniz, b. 1961, American (b. Brazil)

Title

Chicago, after Aaron Siskind

Year

1999

Medium

Silver-dye bleach (Ilfochrome) print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cibachrome

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

48.3 x 48.3 cm (19 x 19 inches) framed, approximately

Identification

Edition

5/15

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2001.36.4

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Presence Through Process

January 15 - June 20, 2010

The humor of Vik Muniz’s photographs often plays on the viewer’s perception and the familiarity of iconic images and commonplace materials. He typically fashions images from everyday substances such as dust, string, or sugar, then photographs the constructions to confound perception of scale and composition. In this sequence, he draws the divers from Aaron Siskind’s dynamic series, Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation (examples of which are on view at right) in chocolate sauce. Muniz attends to Siskind’s nearly abstract compositions with gestural marks that only appear similar to the graphic tone of the originals due to the sheen of the sauce before it dries.

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Chicago, after Aaron Siskind, 1999

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Chicago, after Aaron Siskind, 1999

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Chicago, after Aaron Siskind, 1999

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