
Siesta, after Pierre Bonnard (Pictures of Magazines 2)
2010
Vik Muniz's 2010 'Siesta, after Pierre Bonnard' from his Pictures of Magazines series reimagines a classical composition using contemporary materials and photographic practices. The work engages with art history through reinterpretation and conceptual appropriation.
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- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art
September 25, 2024
Lot 204
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Christian Marclay
American-Swiss · b. 1955

Marclay similarly appropriates existing cultural materials including magazines and printed media to construct new layered compositions, engaging with art history and popular culture through conceptual collage and photographic processes.

Mickalene Thomas
American · b. 1971

Thomas creates figurative interior domestic scenes using collage, magazine imagery, and mixed media photography that share the warm toned intimacy and material reinterpretation of classical compositions found in this Muniz work.

John Baldessari
American · b. 1931

Baldessari consistently used appropriated magazine and photographic imagery to reinterpret and comment on existing visual culture, combining conceptual strategies with collage techniques that closely parallel Muniz's approach in this series.
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