PPT companion to Vik Muniz Seminar -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection, March 2008 Evaluation by: Francois-Xavier Cocherel, Intern Coordinator PGC (Evaluation available upon request)

1. Vik Muniz: “ A Twisted Kind of Realist”

2. “ Some early man threw his spear at a bison only to discover that it wasn’t a bison but a termite mound that carried an uncanny resemblance to a bison. He was “fooled” by nature. He went back to the tribe and told the other hunters about the bison. Soon they were throwing their spears at the termite mound while he crouched behind the bushes laughing. That was the first artist .” – Vik Muniz

3. Early Photography Two Ways of Life , O.G. Rejlander, 1858

4. PB&J Mona Lisa Double Mona Lisa after Warhol , Vik Muniz, 1999

5. 0: Biography

6. The Artist’s Studio

7. 1: Artistic Experimentation / Works and Processes

8. Faux Readymades Clown Skull , from Relics Fountain , Marcel Duchamp, 1917

9. Faux Readym Fountain , Marcel Duchamp, 1917 Ashanti Joystick , from Relics

10. Tug of War Tug of War , 1989

11. Tug of War Tug of War , 1989 “ collapse each into the other's reality in order to subvert ultimately their respective reality-claims ”

12. I Am What I Read I Am What I Read (Entertainment Center), 1989

13. Tug of War Tug of War , 1989

14. Brancusi “… To photograph an object is to transform it into a mental substance…”

15. Individuals Series Veronica (from Individuals Series), Vik Muniz, 1992-93

16. Jean Cocteau Man Ray, Jean Cocteau Creating a Self-Portrait Out of Wire , 1926

17. Pictures of Wire

18. Pictures of Wire

19. Pictures of Thread

20. Wanderer Above the Sea of Ashes Wanderer Above the Sea of Ashes, After Caspar David Friedrich , 1999 Pillows 1999

21. Beggars & Pillows

22. Pillows 1999 Pillows 1999

23. Warhol / Serrano Piss Christ , Andres Serrano, 1989 Oxidation , Andy Warhol, 1978 Madonna and Child , Andres Serrano, 1989

24. Warhol / Serrano Quote Piss Christ , Andres Serrano, 1989 Oxidation , Andy Warhol, 1978 “ Serrano’s photographs were not piss , they were yellow … Warhol, on the other hand, showed the real thing and made an abstraction out of it… I want to work with both notions simultaneously without relying too much on outside explanations…” In my work, I am not that interested in the nature of the material that I photograph as much as in the way the viewer recognizes the material in the photograph. Serrano’s work relies on the viewers’ awareness of information about the subject; Warhol, on information about the process.

25. Magazines, Light Filters, Ink Peter Jennings (Light Filters) Edson , from (Pictures of Magazines) Yogi Berra, (Pictures of Ink)

26. Light Filters Peter Jennings (Light Filters)

27. Pictures of Ink Yogi Berra, (Pictures of Ink), 2000

28. Pictures Of Magazines Edson , from “ Pictures of Magazines,” 2003

29. Treachery of Images The Treachery of Images , Rene Magritte, 1928-29 Peter Jennings (Light Filters), 1999 “ Vaccine” Photos

31. Pictures of Chocolate … introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses Rosharch (After Warhol), from “Pictures of Chocolate” 1999

32. Pictures of Chocolate Action Photo, after Hans Namuth , 1997, Pictures of Chocolate Series

33. Monads Toy Soldier from Monads Series , 2003 “ Each monad is a distinct individual possessing its own kind or degree of consciousness and existence”

34. Monads Soldier Toy Soldier from Monads Series , 2003 Unidentified photographer, Portrait of Pvt. Edwin Francis Jemison, 2 nd Louisiana Regiment C.S.A., ca. 1860-62

35. Rebus Fairies The Cottingley Fairies, After Elsie Wright , Rebus Series, 2004

36. Rebus Alice Liddell Alice Liddell (after Lewis Carroll) , 2004 Alice Liddell dressed up as a beggar-maid , Charles Dodgson 1858

37. Rebus Self Portrait Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Jan Ader), (Rebus) 2003

38. I’m Too Sad To Tell You Rebus Self-Portrait

39. I’m Too Sad To Tell You Rebus Self-Portrait “ Pictures mean different things at different distances ”

41. Rebus Self Portrait Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Van Ader), (Rebus) 2003

42. Muniz / Ader I Am Too Sad To Tell You , Bas Jan Ader, 1970 Self-Portrait (I Am Too Sad To Tell You, After Bas Jan Ader), 2003 (Rebus Series)

43. “ Peaceable Kingdom” “ Children for me are very important. They are in that class of people who understand power, like magicians and con men. We are born with everything . But I think we forget .” -- Vik Muniz … I believe the metaphor of the Peaceable Kingdom has everything to do with our lost childhood power of imaginative naming and our blissful ignorance of ourselves as an image… This curse has resulted in a cultural lifetime of self-control, self-censorship, and estrangement from unadulterated wonder…” -- Mark Alice Durant

44. Brancacci Expulsion From Paradise , Brancacci Chapel, Masaccio, c. 1426

45. Rebus / Brancacci

46. Other works Starry Night , from “The Back of Paintings,” 2002 Shadowgrams

47. Aftermath series Pictures of Junk

48. Memory Renderings

49. Earthworks / “Earthworks”

51. Castle on a Grain of Sand , 2005

52. Cloud Cloud A Creative Time Project (YAY LEENIE)

53. Brushstroke , from Pictures of Chocolate

54. “ The painter constructs , the photographer discloses ” – Susan Sontag, “Heroism of vision”

55. End