A book that emerged from a photographic register of the frequent and often paradoxical use of the color blue in range of elements (telephone booths, street furniture, road sing, etc) scattered around the city of Arad in Romania. The persistence of this colour code and its emotional and political implications-in comparison with the iconic red of the previous Comunist régime- refflected the extent to which memory was being "translated" and how Romania society confronted its future.

Muntadas continues his critical analysis of the media and its effect on the relationship between private and public spaces in contemporary society. For the past fifteen years he has developed multimedia installations that employ deconstructive strategies to reveal the symbolic and political meaning encoded in media archetypes, constructions or architectural representations such as the art gallery, the board room, the stadium, the automobile and the home.

ENG: Portraits is a book published in 1995 by Les Editions de l'Observatoire in Marseille. It is an artist's publication that collects portraits of various public figures transformed into icons by the media. Most of the content comes from different portraits found in international newspapers and is the result of a process of cutting, editing and blowing up black and white images to emphasize the relationship of the selected personalities with the microphones that are part of the piece.

ENG: This catalog was edited by Xunta de Galicia based on the exhibition Verbas: A press room, that La Consellería de Cultura provided through the Galician Center for Contemporary Art: Casa da Parra, from October 26 to December 22, of 1995, in Santiago de Compostela.This represented an unprecedented experience so far in Spain.

FR: Conçue pour compléter le catalogue Between the Frames : The Forum, cette publication fournit la transcription, traduite en français, de la bande son de l'installation vidéo, soit 160 entretiens réalisés entre 1983 et 1991 avec des intervenants du système de l'art contemporain.