80 seiten mit zahlr., teils ganzs. farbabb.. englisch. 4to. (quartformat). orig.leineneinbd. mit farb. illustr. oschutzumschlag/ clothbound with dustjacket. ben brown fine arts, hong kong, 21 nov. 2012 - 8 feb. 2013, the first solo exhibition in asia of works by the internationally celebrated brazilian photographer vik muniz. this exhibition featured photographs from his recent pictures of magazines 2 series, in which the artist had carefully culled and torn pieces of paper from art, fashion and news magazines; amalgamated them into re-creations of iconic and historically significant paintings; and then photographed and magnified the images, resulting in evocative, exquisitely-detailed and entirely unique works of art. muniz is renowned for his ingenious and laborious employment of unusual materials - dust, sugar, chocolate, diamonds, caviar, toys, paper hole-punches, junk, dry pigment - to reconstruct images, often art historically related, that tap into the spectator's subconscious visual repository and beg for further investigation. muniz's elaborate material creations - in this case the magazine collages - are ephemeral; it is his masterly photographic documentation that is the final work of art, which is intentionally many steps removed from the original image that inspired it.....'(ben brown fine arts). tadelloses exemplar/ mint copy.