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December 17, 2008 by Marion Maneker

vikmuniz081222_1_560New York Magazine sits down with Vik Muniz to talk about his juxtapositions of MoMA collection works for their Artist’s Choice Series. Here he talks about Picasso’s Guitar, left, and Charles Sheeler’s African Musical Instrument:

“Picasso loved African art,” says Muniz “There’s a structural connection between his cardboard sculpture of a deconstructed guitar and the print by Sheeler—which is a photo-realistic facsimile of an African instrument.” He adds that Picasso’s model, for a later sheet-metal sculpture, “was probably one of the first times in history that someone made a sculpture, an art object, about something common.”

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