Artist Biography:
Originally trained as a sculptor, Vik Muñiz (Brazilian, b. 1961), uses unconventional materials, including chocolate syrup, sequins, and thread to recreate well-known works of art or images from popular culture. After his constructions are complete, he then photographs these new sculptural and appropriated “drawings.” Since the mid-1990s, Muñiz has earned an international reputation for the photographic pieces he creates out of these everyday materials. This visual trickery, in turn, subverts the photographic medium by revealing its own unreliability. Widely collected, Muñiz's has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

About the Work:
Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley, a beautiful vast panorama of the valley of the Arc River, is the subject of this work in his ongoing series 'Pictures of Pigment'. Executed in brilliant powdered paint pigment, Muñiz reveals the compositional power of color within each 'drawing'. Questioning the original's aura, Muñiz empowers his viewer to look deeper into the small intricacies that compose our original masterpieces.

Market Information:
Muñiz’ "illusions" have won over art world critics and public alike. Works form his "Pictures of Pigment" series rarely come up for sale, and ArtCycle is offering this work at a price you cannot refuse.