Muntadas: Information >> Space >> Control

On view through January 15, 2012, 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.

Eva Díaz on Antoni Muntadas. The Bronx Museum of Art

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A few years ago, the New Yorker started a weekly cartoon-caption contest. I can be trusted to draw a complete blank about how to caption each week’s illustration, and yet I am consistently impressed with wits in the general public knocking it out of the park with some seriously funny entries. A work by Antoni Muntadas stages a similar exercise, one whose high stakes reveal themselves only gradually.

International Lexicon of Aesthetics: "Museal Communication"

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The concept of museal communication comprises three areas: architecturalcommunication; internal communication, that is, a museum’s “itinerary” and structure; and communication of content, or rather mission. Each of these aspects can be the object of specific procedures. In short, we will deal with the communication of content and, specifically, with art museums considered as a cultural and aesthetic paradigm.