Still after Cindy Sherman (from the Pictures of Ink Series)

Details

Vik Muniz (B. 1961)
Still after Cindy Sherman (from the Pictures of Ink Series)
Cibachrome print mounted on Sintra
48 x 59¾in. (122 x 152cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is number three from an edition of five

Provenance

Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York.

Literature

J. Elkins, Vik Muniz Incomplete Works, Rio de Janeiro 2004 (another from the edition illustrated in color, p. 203).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

"Cindy Sherman's Films Stills were very touching: They locate the individual within the context of mass media. You watch movies, and suddenly you're living the life of these characters--projecting yourself into the plot. What of that experience remains when you leave the theater? There's a kind of aftertaste. The Film Stills are copies, plagiarizing the viewer's desire to play all those roles. Sherman did something so plain, even kind of silly, but it was the best thing to happen in the '80s. Those images made me want to take pictures because they had something of the theater in them: a sort of double-presentation, scenes shot through other scenes.

(V. Muniz cited in T. Griffin, "Cindy Sherman Talks to David Frankel", Artforum, Vol. 41 No.7, March 2003, p. 54).

Still after Cindy Sherman (from the Pictures of Ink Series)

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