Antoni Muntadas "Muntadas: Information>>Space>>Control"
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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Beginning September 29, the Bronx Museum of the Arts will present a collection of video works and photography by multi-disciplinary media artist Antoni Muntadas in the exhibition Muntadas: Information >> Space >> Control. The exhibition spans more than thirty years of Muntadas’ career and includes seven works. The exhibition is curated by independent curator José Roca, who works in both Colombia and the U.S. Muntadas, who was born in Barcelona and has lived and worked in New York since 1971, is best known for his multimedia works and public art installations that address social and political issues. The works included in Muntadas: Information >> Space >> Control focus on the relationship between public and private space, the media, how information is conveyed, interpreted, and manipulated, and the way that public opinion is shaped.
“Antoni Muntadas has worked on information theory for decades, and his work is more relevant than ever today,” said Bronx Museum of the Arts Director Holly Block. “We are pleased to present this survey of works by Muntadas, originated by the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, in Brazil, and we welcome audiences to explore the role information and its dissemination play in our everyday lives.”
Among the works included in the exhibition are "Vídeo is Television?" an amalgamation of words and images from different sources that looks at the way the media may be used to censor or promulgate ideas, and “On Subjectivity,” which takes a series of images used in the media out of their original context and proposes a different understanding of their meaning. “On Subjectivity” will feature five images from the Bronx, accompanied by a logbook for visitors to create their own captions. Each day a selection of captions written by visitors will be posted next to the photographs.
Also included in the exhibition is the video series “On Translation,” a version of which was included in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. The presentation at the Bronx Museum will include the videos “Fear/Miedo” (2005) and “Miedo/Jauf” (2007), which respectively explore the relationship and border tensions between Tijuana and San Diego, and southern Spain and northern Africa. Together, the two videos look at the construction of fear in relationship to the idea of the unknown and the other.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, the Bronx Museum will host a series of public events, including an open house with the artist on October 30, 2011. The open house will run from 2:00-5:00 p.m. and will feature free gallery access and a family-friendly art program.
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Schedule
from September 29, 2011 to January 15, 2012
Reception For The Artist on 2011-10-30 from 14:00 to 17:00