Antoni
Muntadas
Warning:
Perception requires involvement
National Centre for Contemporary Arts
Moscow
2 - 25 December, 2011
Antoni
Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is
one of the first artists who started to use new technologies in
the visual arts and make artistic exploration of virtual space. He
has always concerned, over the years, about critical rethinking of
ideology, historical memory and political power structures, cultural
industries, different social contexts, and interaction between public and
private spaces. Muntadas defines his artistic position as one of “an
interpreter of images of what is happening in the world today” and who seeks
“to identify what most often remains invisible.”
The
exhibition of Muntadas' works is composed of two parts. His new project “On
Translation:
Stand by: Moscow”
specially produced for Moscow and about Moscow is accompanied by a survey of
his works. The survey part of the exhibition presents projects from 1970s
to 1990s. (The Last Ten Minutes - II, 1977; Video Is Television? 1989; The
Limousine Project, 1990; Portrait, 1994; La Siesta, 1995, etc.), as well as a
series of his recent artworks, united under the title “On Translation.” The
series “On Translation” is devoted to re-interpretation of social, political
and cultural processes. The aim of the project is to attract the viewer's
attention to the critical issues and conflicting phenomena in the contemporary
environment.
The photo series "On
Translation: Stand by: Moscow,” which was created specially for the Moscow
exhibition, continue the cycle
of projects "Stand by" represented by the author in
various parts of the world. Looking at the people crowding or standing in queue
and waiting for something, the artist explores, in his own words, “modern urban
rituals”. The transformation of such a unique social and cultural phenomenon as
the Soviet and post-Soviet queue is traced by Muntadas with the material of
archival photographs, which are of no less importance in the project than the
shooting on location.
The title
of the exhibition, repeating the slogan of one of the artist's works, stresses
that Antoni Muntadas' projects require the viewer not to give in to passive
observation but to be a critical and attentive participant.
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