Muntadas: Estrategias del Desplazamiento
Feb
2
1:30 PM13:30
Exhibitions

Muntadas: Estrategias del Desplazamiento

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Antoni Muntadas, an iconic figure in international art, is building a trans-disciplinary discourse centered on criticism of the media; he places the extensive function of art in interaction with social sciences, the mass media and the new information technologies to reveal the linguistic mechanisms of power.  In the seventies he created the term media landscape to give a name to this new landscape, which has been, since then, the main goal of his investigation.

Strategies of Displacement is an exhibition that reviews Muntadas' work through specific projects and incorporates his recent shift towards landscape.  The author marks a route that steers towards an unstable territory, one that raises questions, in a selection of projects that converge around three ideas: losing (yourself), disappearing, going (away). 

IMAGE: MUNTADAS, La Siesta/The Nap/Dutje, 1995, DVD video playback with draped armchair and sound, Eight minutes of video and sound on continuous loop, 120 x 168 x 240 inches, No. 4 from an Edition of 6

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Art Lessons
Nov
7
to Feb 18

Art Lessons

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Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Madrid, Spain

 

The museum will be completing the exhibition programme organised to mark its 25th Anniversary by inviting visitors to reflect on the educational role of museums in society today through an innovative project curated by the Education Department. “Art Lesson” will consist of various activities that will take place during the time the exhibition is open to the public and will occupy different spaces in the museum. The project has been conceived as an organic entity which will take shape over time and will make the museum particularly dynamic while it is taking place.

An exhibition featuring the work of contemporary artists such as Antoni Muntadas, Cinthia Marcelle, Dennis Adams, Eva Kot’átková, Dora Garcia, Pavel Kogan, Erwin Wurm and Rineke Djikstra will look at the issues of where knowledge lies and the museum as a personal experience, aiming to transform the spectator’s experience and place within the museum. For the first time, the museum will also become a space for creation through three artist’s residence grants that will allow the recipients to work alongside the Education Department team during both the preparatory stage and the exhibition itself. This initiative aims to establish links between cutting-edge artistic creation and the museum and between its works and the activities of its educators. 

The wide-ranging educational programme that accompanies the exhibition will allow the visiting public to become an active agent, forming part of this process of experimentation and investigation. 

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