
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, after Georges Seurat from Gordian Puzzles
Created by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, this digital chromogenic print reimagines Georges Seurat's iconic Pointillist masterpiece through a conceptually layered lens, reconstructing the beloved scene of Parisians leisurely gathered along the Seine using the interlocking pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Muniz transforms the original painting's meticulous dots of color into the fragmented geometry of puzzle pieces, drawing a witty parallel between Seurat's painstaking technique and the meditative act of assembling a puzzle. The work belongs to Muniz's *Gordian Puzzles* series, in which he explores themes of perception, reproduction, and the relationship between effort and image-making.
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- Digital chromogenic print.
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April 1, 2014
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