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“Using color pigments, I wanted to make a statement about the importance of color. Because of it, even reproductions of celebrated works in the history of art can change from one print run to another. If you place the pages side by side, you think that they’re different works. All is relative in art.”

– Vik Muniz

In his renowned ‘photographic delusions,’ Muniz meticulously layers brilliant powdered pigment onto his canvas, achieving a remarkable textural depth that is later captured in a two-dimensional photograph. While the final photographic image marks the culmination of Muniz's …