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Vik Muniz — The Absinthe Drinker, after Edgar Degas from Pictures of Magazines II
Vik Muniz

The Absinthe Drinker, after Edgar Degas from Pictures of Magazines II

Created from meticulously arranged fragments of cut magazine pages, Vik Muniz reconstructs Degas's iconic painting of a solitary, vacant-eyed café dweller into a richly layered chromogenic print. The work plays with perception and materiality, inviting viewers to oscillate between recognizing the familiar Impressionist composition and discovering the colorful scraps of mass-media imagery that construct it. Through this process, Muniz explores themes of reproduction, consumption, and the ways meaning is built from the detritus of contemporary visual culture.

Medium
Chromogenic print.

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April 4, 2016

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Vik Muniz, The Absinthe Drinker, after Edgar Degas from Pictures of Magazines II

Created from meticulously arranged fragments of cut magazine pages, Vik Muniz reconstructs Degas's iconic painting of a solitary, vacant-eyed café dweller into a richly layered chromogenic print. The work plays with perception and materiality, inviting viewers to oscillate between recognizing the familiar Impressionist composition and discovering the colorful scraps of mass-media imagery that construct it. Through this process, Muniz explores themes of reproduction, consumption, and the ways meaning is built from the detritus of contemporary visual culture.

Medium
Chromogenic print.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Melancholic Mood, Male Artist, Brazilian Artist, After Old Masters, Printmaking, Muted Tones, Contemporary Photography, Appropriation Art, Chromogenic Print, Collage Aesthetic, Figurative, Post-Modern

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Sarah Greenspan, Alex Capecelatro