Name: Hermes (Pictures of Chocolate)
Brand: VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
Price: 15000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961)
Hermes (Pictures of Chocolate)
signed, numbered and dated 'Vik Muniz 2001 1/3' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
Cibachrome print
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm.)
Executed in 2001. This work is number one from an edition of three.

Provenance
Brent Sikkema, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
P. Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987-2009 Catálogo Raisonné, Rio de Jainero, 2009, p. 246 (another example illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

The Post-Modernist Brazilian artist Vik Muniz is famous for recreating images with unusual materials, such as toys, diamonds, chocolate, refuse, dry powdered pigment and sugar. Such ephemeral compositions are than photographed and magnified by the artist. In Hermes (Pictures of Chocolate) the artist reinterprets the Greek god of transitions and boundaries. Muniz realized the work on a minute scale, outlining the figure with chocolate syrup. The extremely detail oriented photographs tap into the history of art, reconstructing scenery that invites the spectator to further investigate his inventive materials and procedures.