
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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- Auction House · Phillips
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April 4, 2016
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