id: 163509 accession number: 2004.68 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.68 updated: 2023-08-24 00:05:11.612000 Still Life after Morandi (from Pictures of Magazines), 2004. Vik Muniz (American, b. 1961). Chromogenic process color print; image: 182.8 x 214.6 cm (71 15/16 x 84 1/2 in.); framed: 190.5 x 222.2 cm (75 x 87 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2004.68 © Vik Muniz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Still Life after Morandi (from Pictures of Magazines) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2004 creation date earliest: 2004 creation date latest: 2004 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © Vik Muniz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 21st century technique: chromogenic process color print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Vik Muniz (American, b. 1961) - artist --- measurements: Image: 182.8 x 214.6 cm (71 15/16 x 84 1/2 in.); Framed: 190.5 x 222.2 cm (75 x 87 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Vik Muniz combines his skills as a painter, sculptor, draftsman, performance artist, and photographer to create exquisite visual objects that affect the way people view images. From his unlikely inventory of materials - chocolate syrup, ketchup, sugar, wire, sewing thread, dust - he constructs ephemeral works that range from masterpieces of art history to simulated cumulus clouds, Hollywood film stills to iconic photographs from popular culture. Still Life after Morandi is from the latest, critically acclaimed series in which Muniz explores unconventional modes of rendering and the mechanics of perception in this age of visual overload. From a photograph, he laboriously recreated a still-life painting by 20th-century master Giorgio Morandi by meticulously assembling a small collage (roughly 8 x 11-1/2 inches) of 1/4-inch disks punched from color magazines. He then photographed the trompe l’oeil object and made immense color prints from the resulting negative. In a mosaic, pointillist technique, Muniz skillfully rendered the soft light, the narrow band of subtle warm tones, and the textured surface associated with his easily identifiable, appropriated subject matter. Enticed by a seemingly familiar image, the viewer’s interest is sustained by the work’s visual beauty and perceptual ambiguity. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lago, Pedro Corrêa do. Vik Muniz: Catalogue Raisonné, 1987-2015: Everything So Far = Tudo Até Agora. [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]: Capivara, 2015. page number: Reproduced: Vol. 2, P. 524 url: --- IMAGES