Superflat
Jeffry Mitchell: Hanabuki
Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective
Performing Photography
Graphic Design in the Mechanical AgeVik Muniz: Repartee
North Galleries
October 4, 2001 – December 16, 2001
Vik Muniz specializes in fake reality and real fakes. His work constitutes a witty dialogue- or repartee- with the history of images. He makes what he describes as “the worst possible illusion that will still fool the eye.” Because, he says, "illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies. “Vik Muniz: Repartee”, a featured exhibition in the Henry’s Short Stories series, included characteristic photographic series such as “Pictures of Soil,” “The Sugar Children,” and “Pictures of Chocolate.” “Repartee” also showcased photographs and other objects from the artist’s own collections that reveal the grand tradition of fakery embedded in the history of photography. His cliché-verre prints—Barbizon drawings scratched into a blackened glass plate and printed as photographs—provide a context for Muniz’s own fusion of drawing and photography.