Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain
Meet Brazilian visual artist Vik Muniz as he prepares for an exhibition full of trickery and illusion
Vik Muniz says he owes his artistic career to being shot as a young man, not because he had an epiphany about the meaning of his life, but because he won enough compensation from the accident to move to New York and kick start his career in the art world. He is now probably one of Brazilβs most successful visual artists and he divides his time between Rio and New York. His pieces can range from tiny specs that are photographed by microscopes to giant landscapes captured from helicopters. Heβs arguably most known for working with unconventional materials; some of his most famous works have been created out of sugar, chocolate and a plate of left over spaghetti. Andrea Kennedy went to New York to meet him as he prepared for a recent exhibition, full of illusions designed to fool and trap his audience.
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Vik Muniz: Drawing clouds in the sky
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When an artist's piece goes wrong...
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βI was the kid who drewβ
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