Muntadas: On Translation: El Aplauso, Captures #20.

Antoni Muntadas, né en 1942 à Barcelone (Espagne) est un artiste multimédia. Après des études d’architecture et d’ingénierie à Barcelone, Muntadas choisit de se consacrer à l’art. Il s’installe à New York (É.-U.) en 1971. Son travail a été largement exposé, entre autre, au Museum of Modern Art, à la Biennale de Venise en 2005 où il représentait l’Espagne, la documenta 6 et à la documenta X.

Muntadas: El Aplauso

This triptych video installation was produced in collaboration with the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Following the File Room, 1994, Muntadas embarked on an extended series of installations entitled On Translation with El Aplauso having been included in every major retrospective since it’s initial realization in Columbia.

Muntadas: Eleven

MUNTADAS: ELEVEN presents eleven works created in varying periods and under varying circumstances. This exhibition marks the first time these works have been seen in New York, beginning with the earliest, Diálogo, produced in 1980 in Madrid; to the series Sentences, begun in 1999; to Look/See/Perceive of 2009; to recent work like The Ordeal of Picasso’s Heirs and Carteras sin ministro, both from 2012.