Sao Paolo, Brazil-born artist Vik Muniz created these series of shredded collage made of vintage photographs and postcards.
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
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The Imaginary Museum by Vik Muniz
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz displayed his amazing works of art in an exhibition 'The Imaginary Museum', in the Lambert Collection museum, Hôtel de Caumont and Église des Célestins in Avignon, southeastern France.
For his 'Sugar Children' series, he used a tiny vacuum apparatus, cotton swabs with glue, tweezers, and brushes to rearrange and build density, highlight, and shadow out of bits of wood pulp and soil. Granules of sugar are transported one by one.
This 'Diamond Divas' series is a collection of five Hollywood’s screen legends portraits (Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe) made with more than 3,000 (550 carats) Kwiat diamonds.
“I love the way the diamonds play with the light. This promises to be one of my most successful series ever. People are asking to buy the images sight unseen because they are so fascinated by diamonds.”
Vincent Van Gogh 'The Sower', made with dried flower pods, sprigs of lavender, straw, dried seeds, and sticks.
Van Gogh's portrait, made with dried flower pods, lavender, straw, dried seeds, and sticks.
'Double Mona Lisa', made with peanut butter and jam.
'Che (Sopa de Frijoles negros)', made with black bean soup.
As for his 'Pictures of Chocolate' series, the image was drawn with chocoloate syrup and photographed quickly.
“Working with materials sometimes means working with the very essence of what a material has to offer. … The work defines the material and the material defines the work. … My work process has always been about this paradigmatic bind between the materiality and the concept in a work of art.”
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
For his 'Sugar Children' series, he used a tiny vacuum apparatus, cotton swabs with glue, tweezers, and brushes to rearrange and build density, highlight, and shadow out of bits of wood pulp and soil. Granules of sugar are transported one by one.
This 'Diamond Divas' series is a collection of five Hollywood’s screen legends portraits (Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Princess Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe) made with more than 3,000 (550 carats) Kwiat diamonds.
“I love the way the diamonds play with the light. This promises to be one of my most successful series ever. People are asking to buy the images sight unseen because they are so fascinated by diamonds.”
Vincent Van Gogh 'The Sower', made with dried flower pods, sprigs of lavender, straw, dried seeds, and sticks.
Van Gogh's portrait, made with dried flower pods, lavender, straw, dried seeds, and sticks.
'Double Mona Lisa', made with peanut butter and jam.
'Che (Sopa de Frijoles negros)', made with black bean soup.
As for his 'Pictures of Chocolate' series, the image was drawn with chocoloate syrup and photographed quickly.
“Working with materials sometimes means working with the very essence of what a material has to offer. … The work defines the material and the material defines the work. … My work process has always been about this paradigmatic bind between the materiality and the concept in a work of art.”
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
Junk Portraits by Vik Muniz
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz (previously here and here) recreate these famous paintings using junk on a giant warehouse floor and photographed from an elevated position, for his 'Junk Portraits' series.
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
Magazine Scraps Paintings by Vik Muniz
Brazilian-born Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz recreates classic paintings using torn magazine scraps.
Microscopic Sandcastles by Vik Muniz & Marcelo Coelho
São Paulo-born artist Vik Muniz (previously here, here, and here) collaborate with artist and MIT researcher Marcelo Coelho, to create a series of sandcastles etched onto individual grains of sand.
It took them over four years of trial and error to finish.
Each piece of sand measures less than one half of a single millimeter are created using a FIB (focused ion beam – typically used to create microchips) and documented with a scanning electron microscope.
Muniz first drew each castle using a camera lucida, a 19th century optical tool which projects whatever is in front of the artist onto paper to be traced. Then he sent the drawings to Coelho who use a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) which has the capability of creating a line only 50 nanometers wide (a strand of human hair is approximately 50,000 nanometers wide).
“When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.”
“I think photography is just re-starting. There’s a whole new kind of photography emerging now. A lot of it is happening because of this combination between computers and cameras, and story telling and narratives can emerge as a result.”
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
It took them over four years of trial and error to finish.
Each piece of sand measures less than one half of a single millimeter are created using a FIB (focused ion beam – typically used to create microchips) and documented with a scanning electron microscope.
Muniz first drew each castle using a camera lucida, a 19th century optical tool which projects whatever is in front of the artist onto paper to be traced. Then he sent the drawings to Coelho who use a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) which has the capability of creating a line only 50 nanometers wide (a strand of human hair is approximately 50,000 nanometers wide).
“When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.”
“I think photography is just re-starting. There’s a whole new kind of photography emerging now. A lot of it is happening because of this combination between computers and cameras, and story telling and narratives can emerge as a result.”
Check his website: vikmuniz.net/
