

Antoni Muntadas Barcelona, Spain, b. 1942
STADIA AUDIENCE FURNITURE, 1990
Cibachrome (12)
108 x 216 in.
274 x 548. cm
274 x 548. cm
3/5
$ 95,000.00
A recreation and deconstruction of an architectonic code of deep-rooted genetic inheritance—amphitheatre, circus, arena—and with a growing multi-purpose function: a site of sporting events, but also of concerts, political acts,...
A recreation and deconstruction of an architectonic code of deep-rooted genetic inheritance—amphitheatre, circus, arena—and with a growing multi-purpose function: a site of sporting events, but also of concerts, political acts, spectacles, large-scale religions ceremonies and other mass-audience events. The prototypical architecture of the modern stadium is thus seen, considered and interpreted as a mass medium, by virtue also of its broadcasting by the media strictly speaking, which multiplies its audience and widens its scope. The central body is make up by some stands and columns of prefabricated material forming an elliptical, impenetrable area with a bed of sand inside and a circular video projection in the center: views of the crowd in a stadium. Roundabout, in the corners of the room, 4 slide projectors arranged thematically: architecture/ fittings/ symbols/ activities. Photographs and a sound montage/ collage loaded with suggestions surround that symbolic restitution of the architectonic and media referent of the stadium, multiplying the denotative elements, the echoes, keys, metaphors, the symbolic apparatus, concepts and textual references, etc. The is a project that has undergone a constant process of evolution in the successive presentations, especially in terms of the iconographic background, enriched each time with the images and signs closest to the context of the particular exhibition.
Exhibitions
ExhibitionsMuntadas: Stadium IV, Kent Fine Art, New York, 1990
Muntadas: Trabajos recientes, Institut Valencià d’Arte Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia, 1992
Muntadas, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996
Galerie Sandmann & Haak, Hannover, 1998
Cardinales. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo. 2002
Muntadas: Protokolle, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2006
Close Looking. Kent Fine Art, NY. 2007
Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, 2010
Muntadas: Information>Space>Control, Bronx Museum of Art, New York, 2011
Arc en Reve Centre d’Architecture, Bordeaux, France. 20 June to 27 October, 2013.
Muntadas . . . Baixa a Bola!. Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, 2014
Stadium Installation Places and Dates
Stadium I Walter Phillips Art Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada 1989
Stadium II Corner House, Manchester, England 1989
Stadium III Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England 1989
Stadium IV Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver 1990
Stadium V Kent Fine Art, New York 1990
Stadium VI Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 1991
Stadium VII Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California 1991
Stadium VIII IVAM/Centre Jullio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain 1992
Stadium IX Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany 1993
Stadium X Wurtembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2006
Literature
Augaitis, Daina. Muntadas: Stadium I. Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre,1989.Muntadas: trabajos recientes by Margaret Morse, published by IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain c. 1992
Mercader, Antoni, Antoni Muntadas, and Roberto Velazquez. Muntadas Proyectos. Madrid: Fundacion Telefonica, 2000.
Cardinales. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo. 2002
Christ, Hans D., Iris Dressler, and Antoni Muntadas. Muntadas Protokolle. Stuttgart:Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 2007.
Muntadas: Entre/Between, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofîa, Madrid. 2011 Curated by Daina Augaitis (cat.)
Muntadas. Interconnections-Interconnessioni-Interconexiones. Villa delle Rose, Bologna 2019