Muniz, Vik | Flora Industrialis B/N, 2026 — available on Composition Gallery

Portfolio of 21 photographs.

Executed in 1989, this black-and-white mixed media work arranges bold abstract forms across a grid of panels with Cubist energy and graphic assurance. Architectural shapes jostle alongside undulating sea lines and swooping curves, punctuated by fields of dotted texture that animate the surface with rhythmic variety. The initials D.H. inscribed at the lower right anchor the composition in Hockney's distinctive hand. The work distils the spirit of a coastal setting into a dynamic interplay of line, pattern, and structure, demonstrating Hockney's restless capacity to reinvent his visual language across media and scale.

Vik Muniz (Brazil, 1961) is a celebrated contemporary artist known for his innovative use of unconventional materials like chocolate, garbage, and thread. He recreates iconic images with these mediums, blurring the line between high art and everyday objects. Muniz’s works explore perception, memory, and the relationship between art and reality.

Vik Muniz

Flora Industrialis B/N, 2026

Name: Flora Industrialis B/N, 2026
SKU: 17656
Price: 25000.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Photography

PhotographyPhotography is the process of creating an image on light sensitive materials. The image is produced by using a camera, which has a lens that focuses on light either reflected or emitted from an object. These visible wavelengths are used to reproduce the image seen.

Medium

Photograph

PhotographA photograph is an image captured with a camera. Traditionally, photographs were made by exposing film and then developing the image on light-sensitive paper using chemicals. Today, photographs can also be captured digitally and printed or displayed electronically. The process requires a camera, whether film or digital, and a photographer.

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Portfolio of 21 photographs.

Vik Muniz

Flora Industrialis B/N, 2026

Photography

Photograph

EUR 25,000

Vik Muniz

Love Bug Suite, 2014

Limited Edition Print

C-Print

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Vik Muniz

Butterflies, after Odilon Redon , 2006

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

USD 40,000 - 50,000

Vik Muniz

Vireo on Barbed Wire, 1995

Photography

Photograph

USD 6,200

Vik Muniz

Bullfinch and weeping cherry, 2010

Photography

C-Print

EUR 6,500

Vik Muniz

Flora Industrialis, 2024

Photography

Photograph

Currently Not Available

Vik Muniz

Oedipus and Sphinx, after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Pictures of Junk), 2006

Photography

C-Print

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After Sonia (...), 2025

Limited Edition Print

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Jetliner, 2018

Limited Edition Print

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Flowers in B(...), 2005

Limited Edition Print

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The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.
- Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz is a photographer and artist from Brazil. He was originally a sculptor, but grew increasingly interested in the artistic photographs that were being taken of his work. Vik Muniz now focuses his artistic talents completely on photography, and uses a number of unconventional items such as diamonds, garbage and chocolate syrup to create images that depict certain events in history and pop culture. Vik Muniz got his start in art in a rather unique way. He was working in advertising as a teenager, and on his way back from a formal gala, he tried to break up a street fight. One of the the men accidentally shot him in the leg, and paid Muniz not to press charges against him. Vik Muniz then moved to New York, where he worked in an art studio his friend lent him and began sculpting. Vik Muniz is very popular with art enthusiasts, and his Rio de Janeiro's MAM was second in attendance only to Picasso's exhibits. Vik Muniz was also part of the documentary Wasteland, where the artwork he'd created in the garbage dumps outside of Rio de Janeiro was featured. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award. (Artist website)

Artwork by Shepard Fairey

What is appropriation?

Appropriation in art involves using pre-existing images or objects with little or no modification. This technique has played a significant role across various art forms, including visual arts, music, performance, and literature. In visual arts, appropriation refers to the practice of adopting, sampling, recycling, or borrowing elements—or even entire forms—of existing visual culture, integrating them into new works to create meaning or critique.

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