Vik Muniz is a truly fascinating artist, capable of challenging the traditional concepts of art and creative reuse, transforming common objects and waste materials into unique artistic works.
The series “Postcards from Nowhere” is a nice example of its original approach: taking old postcards, photographs and other paper objects, Muniz gives life to wonderful collages, returning them a new life cycle. It is not only an act of recovery, but a sort of remodeling of historical and personal memory.
The use of these “waste” thus becomes a poetic act of recycling, a tribute to the old photographic postcards and the lifestyle they represented. But also a reflection on how, through photographs, we learned to “see” and imagine distant and iconic places, some of which never seen live.
View this post on Instagram
No less interesting is the photographic approach of the artist: the final image is in fact a photograph of his works, which opens a stimulating dialogue between different techniques, overcoming the traditional boundaries of art.
Don’t you want to lose our news?
