Vik Muniz: Real Pictures
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
June 7 – September 15, 2019
Vik Muniz, Messy Colour Grid (Handmade), 2019. Photo courtesy the artist and Ben Brown Fine Arts.
Ben Brown Fine Arts is thrilled to announce its second solo exhibition at the London gallery of internationally-acclaimed artist Vik Muniz. Real Pictures – which debuts Muniz’s most recent Handmade series for the first time in the United Kingdom – explores the nature of perception, reality and representation and challenges notions of materiality. Unlike Muniz’s previous series which refer to specific images from art history, collective memory and popular culture, this new body of work refers to the fundamental elements of abstract art itself: colour, composition, form and rhythm, and draws upon connections to abstract art movements including op art, conceptual art and constructivism.
Muniz’s Handmade works are exceptionally rich in allusion, forcing viewers to refocus their attention on the materials themselves and compelling them to consider the process of their creation. As their title suggests, these unique works are the result of a hybrid technique which fuses handcrafted, three-dimensional elements – most notably painting and collaged components – with high-resolution digital photography. These abstract, material studies compel the viewer to closely investigate the dichotomy between the physical object and its depiction while simultaneously reinventing the possibilities of the construction of the photographic image.
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