Clayton Days

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"The Frick Art & Historical Center presents its first exhibition of contemporary art, with a major body of new work by internationally-acclaimed camera artist Vik Muniz. Comprising sixty-five photographs created in 2000, Clayton Days. Picture Stories by Vik Muniz inaugurates the Center's artist-in-residence program, in which contemporary artists are invited to respond to the collections at the Center. The exhibition is on view at The Frick Art Museum from September 9 through October 22, 2000 ... For Clayton Days, Mr. Muniz's work is displayed to tell his own version of the history of life at Clayton. Indeed, the pictures remind us that, with our twenty-first-century point of view, we can never truly understand Clayton as it actually was. For all the apparent authenticity of these images, the viewer remains aware of the pictures' artifice, and thus of the fact that photography can only express the personal vision of the photographer, and not "objective" reality. Mr. Muniz's vision is complex and multi-layered, drawing viewers into the world he has created, and intriguing them with its mysteries"--Frick Art & Historical Center.

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