Vik Muniz

Caravaggio’s Medusa (Medusa Marinara) features an image of Muniz’s recreation of Caravaggio’s Medusa (1590, Gallerica degli Uffizi, Florence) rendered in pasta marinara. The pasta “drawing” was then photographed and digitally printed on this porcelain plate fabricated in France. This sought-after edition was published by the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project in 1999.

The image used on this ashtray by Vik Muniz is taken from Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818). As might be expected, Muniz, known for using unusual materials like ketchup or chocolate to recreate masterpieces, has drawn the image using cigarette ashes and butts. He then photographed the image and had it screened onto a beautiful porcelain ashtray made at Limoges in Bernardaud, France. The rim of the ashtray is then hand-painted in silver leaf. Published by the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project.

Vik Muniz is a New York-based, Brazilian-born experimental media artist who has gained renown through his work with chocolate, dust and other quotidian materials. For Private Eyes, Muniz photographed and then scanned a pristine collection of over a thousand Victorian-era glass eyes, Muniz chose to arrange the eyes in a loose grid rather than a more complex pattern, valuing an appreciation of the individual objects over the composition as a whole.

Artware Editions is an approved Maharam Digital Projects retailer and offers the complete line of artist-designed digital wallpapers. These mural-style wallpaper installations are sized, priced and produced on a project-specific basis. There is a minimum purchase price based on the size of the original legend designed by the artist. It is not required that the total square footage be used but up to the indicated amount is available for the minimum purchase price. The total original image for this wallpaper is 167 square feet and this can be scaled and repeated to custom-fit any space on a project-specific basis. The wallpaper has a matte laminate finish which can be cleaned using mild soap and warm water.

The design for this wallpaper by Vik Muniz relates to the artist’s Pictures of Garbage series and shows a traditional Fleur de Lys pattern fashioned out of garbage and then photographed.

Artware Editions is an approved Maharam Digital Projects retailer and offers the complete line of artist-designed digital wallpapers. These mural-style wallpaper installations are sized, priced and produced on a project-specific basis. There is a minimum purchase price based on the size of the original legend designed by the artist. It is not required that the total square footage be used but up to the indicated amount is available for the minimum purchase price.

The total original image for this wallpaper is 97 square feet and this can be scaled and repeated to custom-fit any space on a project-specific basis.

The wallpaper has a matte laminate finish which can be cleaned using mild soap and warm water.