The following is excerpted from from NYTimes.com of March 2, 2001 . ART REVIEW. By GRACE GLUECK. It's not that Vik Muniz likes to reduce the work of other artists to dust; far from it. One of his... Read full biography
The following is excerpted from from NYTimes.com of March 2, 2001 . ART REVIEW. By GRACE GLUECK. It's not that Vik Muniz likes to reduce the work of other artists to dust; far from it. One of his claimed aims is to get viewers to look harder at the originals. In his show at the Whitney Museum, "The... Read full biography
The following is excerpted from from NYTimes.com of March 2, 2001 . ART REVIEW. By GRACE GLUECK. It's not that Vik Muniz likes to reduce the work of other artists to dust; far from it. One of his claimed aims is to get viewers to look harder at the originals. In his show at the Whitney Museum, "The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz," he uses Minimalist and post-Minimalist sculptures and paintings exhibited at the Whitney over a 30-year period as the basis for nine pictures... Read full biography
The following is excerpted from from NYTimes.com of March 2, 2001 . ART REVIEW. By GRACE GLUECK. It's not that Vik Muniz likes to reduce the work of other artists to dust; far from it. One of his claimed aims is to get viewers to look harder at the originals. In his show at the Whitney Museum, "The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz," he uses Minimalist and post-Minimalist sculptures and paintings exhibited at the Whitney over a 30-year period as the basis for nine pictures literally made from dust. If Minimalism stripped art down, reducing it to bare self-referential essentials, Mr. Muniz figured, why couldn't Minimalism itself be pared? The mass and permanence of the work could be belied though certainly not belittled by a... Read full biography
The following is excerpted from from NYTimes.com of March 2, 2001 . ART REVIEW. By GRACE GLUECK. It's not that Vik Muniz likes to reduce the work of other artists to dust; far from it. One of his claimed aims is to get viewers to look harder at the originals. In his show at the Whitney Museum, "The Things Themselves: Pictures of Dust by Vik Muniz," he uses Minimalist and post-Minimalist sculptures and paintings exhibited at the Whitney over a 30-year period as the basis for nine pictures literally made from dust. If Minimalism stripped art down, reducing it to bare self-referential essentials, Mr. Muniz figured, why couldn't Minimalism itself be pared? The mass and permanence of the work could be belied though certainly not belittled by a ghostly haze of dust. (An incidental benefit for viewers, not cited by Mr. Muniz, is a better grasp of the role dust plays... Read full biography
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