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Vik Muniz Mnemonic Vehicle No. 4 at The Armory Show

Mnemonic Vehicle No. 4 by Vik Muiz parked at The Armory Show for the weekend. Ben Brown Fine Arts exhibited the work with a Frank Stella-inspired backdrop from Muniz's Metachrome series, highlighting the broad range of the artist's practice.

Vik Muniz Survey Exhibition at the Eskenazi Museum of Art

The Vik Muniz retrospective opens today at Indiana University Bloomington's Eskenazi Museum. The exhibition will include works from Muniz's Mnemonic Vehicle series. The series was also seen in the High Museum's stop on the exhibition itinerary.

Vik Muniz at Art Basel Hong Kong

Ben Brown Fine Arts exhibited Mnemonic Vehicle #1, by Vik Muniz, at last month's Art Basel Hong Kong.

Vik Muniz at the High Museum

Beyer Projects congratulates Vik Muniz on the opening of his High Museum retrospective. As a kid, Vik dreamt of his Matchbox cars becoming full-size. His dream came true with Mnemonic Vehicle #1.

In the Studio with Vik Muniz

Architectural Digest just published this image of Vik Muniz with Mnemonic Vehicle #1 in his Brooklyn studio.

“What makes up the pictures inside your head? This is the question I’m always asking myself,” says artist Vik Muniz. Best known for assembling mundane materials into trompe l’oeil tableaux, which he then photographs, the Brazilian-born talent (shown above in his Brooklyn studio) is the subject of a retrospective opening this winter at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. In his inventive compositions, garbage, chocolate, and powdered pigment are arranged into facsimiles of famous paintings, while scraps of old snapshots are collaged into family portraits, and pictures of castles are improbably etched onto grains of sand. New sculptures reproduce toy cars—like those Muniz collected as a child—at full size. “I have no interest in what I haven’t seen,” he says. “You have to make images that are mysterious but still communicate ideas to everybody.” February 28–May 29; high.org

Vik Muniz Ferrari Unveiled at Art Basel - Parcours

Mnemonic Vehicle #1 (2015) at Art Basel - Parcours, Martinskirchplatz, June 17-21, 2015 | MAP | @vikmuniz

Vik Muniz at Art Basel - Parcours

We are pleased to announce that our Mnemonic Vehicle collaboration with Vik Muniz will be exhibited by Pace Gallery at Art Basel - Parcours.

PACE (New York, London, Zuoz, Beijing, Hong Kong) will present ‘Mnemonic Vehicle (Ferrari)’ (2015), an installation by Vik Muniz comprising a life-size sculpture of the iconic Matchbox toy car at St. Martin’s church. A project about memory, desire and scale, the artist has been collecting vintage toy cars from flea markets, old toyshops and eBay over the last year, considering the importance of toys and playing to our adult selves.

June 17-21, 2015 MAP