Muniz Remastered presents a selection of reinterpretations by Muniz of masters such as Corot, Durer, Aaron Siskind, Rembrandt, Waritor, and others in Muñiz’s unique artistic style. These works are new approaches to infamous images and included in this exhibition are reinterpretations to well-known works such as Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa and Cezanne’s Still Life With Apples. These pieces as well as all of Muñiz’ creations completed since the mid 1990’s are fabricated with unlikely mediums of chocolate, trash, sequins, thread, peanut butter and jelly, sugar, dirt, leaves, junk, and other materials. A final photograph is printed in each case to document his fragile inventions. Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1961, Muñiz is now based in New York.
Muñiz is an acclaimed international artist having had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museu de Art Moderna, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Musee de l’Élisée Lausanne, Switzerland; the Fondation Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, and PS1, New York.
Devon Dikeou is the curator and spirit behind bringing the West Collection and the Museo together, she lives and works in New York and Denver, Colorado. Dikeou is an artist, collector and the editor/publisher of zingmagazine, an art based journal from New York. She has published the highly respected zingmagazine since 1995, it was created as a “curatorial crossing”. Zingmagazine invites artistic exchanges that offer intersections and crossing points of re-actionally free content.
This exhibition has been made possible through the generous contributions of Katherine Archuleta, American Latino TV, Sue Cannon, Colorado Council for the Arts, Noel and Thomas Congdon, Coors Brewing Company, Devon Dikeou, Betty & Samuel Emmanuel, Kenneth King Foundation, KGNU, KUVO, Latin Nation, SCFD, Univision, Key Bank, Paige West, and zingmagazine.
