JUAN MUÑOZ. EVERYTHING I SEE WILL OUTLIVE ME

From 14th February to 11st June, 2023

Sala Alcalá 31

By WAC | 18 FEB 2023

The proposal, conceived by its curator Manuel Segade as an installation of installations, which is probably not to be missed during art week in Madrid and which can be enjoyed until next June in the Sala Alcalá 31 is the exhibition that brings together some of the most iconic pieces that the artist Juan Muñoz devised and produced between the 1990s and 2001.

The exhibition —which will continue at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo from 17th June 2023 to 7th January 2024— commemorates the seventieth anniversary of the artist's birth. Muñoz's career was cut short at the moment of its peak, after the inauguration of his large installation in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London. For this reason, the exhibition project takes its name from a quote by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova that the artist included in one of the notes in his notebooks in preparation for the exhibition at the London museum.

The last decade of Juan Muñoz's production was marked by his mastery of space in a neo-baroque conception and by the recovery of the human figure as the central element of his work. His existentialist vocation, his emotional quality and his vindication of the trick, of the suspension of disbelief, determined fiction as a fundamental characteristic of contemporary art, advancing the speculative turn that would be paradigmatic of art in the 21st century.

Among the selection of works, Plaza stands out, a piece from the Kunstsammlung K21 Düsseldorf that has not been seen in Spain since the Reina Sofía Museum dedicated Monologues and Dialogues to it at the Palacio de Velázquez in 1996. Composed of 27 figures of Chinese citizens in hilarious poses, it is the centrepiece of the exhibition.

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