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In the Studio: Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain

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Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz Wants to Tickle Your Brain

25/04/2017 GMT

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Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion

Meet Brazilian visual artist Vik Muniz as he prepares for an exhibition full of trickery and illusion

Vik Muniz says he owes his artistic career to being shot as a young man, not because he had an epiphany about the meaning of his life, but because he won enough compensation from the accident to move to New York and kick start his career in the art world. He is now probably one of Brazil’s most successful visual artists and he divides his time between Rio and New York. His pieces can range from tiny specs that are photographed by microscopes to giant landscapes captured from helicopters. He’s arguably most known for working with unconventional materials; some of his most famous works have been created out of sugar, chocolate and a plate of left over spaghetti. Andrea Kennedy went to New York to meet him as he prepared for a recent exhibition, full of illusions designed to fool and trap his audience.

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