ANTONI MUNTADAS: THE METHODOLOGY OF THE PROJECT

Antoni Muntadas will offer a comprehensive interpretation of his decades-long artistic trajectory, from the highly politicized environment of the 1970s to his most recent exhibitions. His work can be understood as an analysis of the linguistic and discursive mechanisms, which inform social experience.

El Aplauso, 1999. Exhibition: Proyectos. Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City. Mexico. 2004. Photographer: Magdalena Martínez Franco. © Muntadas. Image courtesy of Accademia di Brera.

Muntadas' artistic interventions have been extremely diverse, interviews, book production, archives, installations, direct intervention in public spaces both material and immaterial (the web). In the process he has always confronted power and its institutional expressions with the intention to deconstruct their hegemonic logic.

Moreover, one should keep in mind that he has always sought to analyze “the system” in all its guises; the market, the museum, art collecting, or the art world in general. Throughout his career Mutandas has relentlessly investigated the mechanisms of social introjection of messages.

THE METHODOLOGY OF THE PROJECT, curated by Laura Cherubini.

Thus, we have both a constructive project and deconstructive one; a constant re-shufling of meanings, images, messages and spaces.

We can argue that Muntadas is constantly analyzing the implicit ideology of our society by means of a strategic critique. This, very briefly, will be the outline of his talk. Though directed first and foremost to all foreign students living in Milan the talk is open to the general public. The entry is obviously free.

Franco Marocco, Director of Brera.
Roberto Casiraghi, Chair of the Visual Arts Department.
The International Relations Department (Erasmus), coordinated by Elisabetta Longari, Massimo Mazzone.
The School of Sculpture directed by Massimo Pellegrinetti.

Info.- relazioniinternazionali@accademiadibrera.milano.it
Booking.- prof. Mazzone 0039 334 6636 581 or Ufficio Erasmus, Via dei Fiori Oscuri, 7, Milano. Italy.
Where.- Aula San Carpoforo, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano. Italy.
When.- 10 am – 2 pm. 9-10 December, 2014.

Between The Frames: The Forum, 1983 -1993. List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, 1995. Photographer: Charles Mayer ©Muntadas.

La mesa de negociación, 1998-2003, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Germany. “On Translation: Das Museum”. Photographer: Sascha Dressler. ©Muntadas. Image courtesy of Accademia di Brera.

On Translation: The Bank,1997 © Muntadas. Image courtesy of Accademia di Brera.

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Antoni Muntadas

Antoni Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942 and has lived in New York since 1971. His work addresses social, political and communication issues, such as the relationship between public and private space within certain social frameworks or information channels and the way in which they are used to censor or promulgate ideas. He presents his projects in different media, such as photography, video, publications, Internet, installations and interventions in urban spaces.

Muntadas has taught and directed seminars in various institutions in Europe and the United States, Latin America and Asia. His long career as a visiting professor of the Visual Arts Program at the School of Architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, stands out from 1990 to 2014. He is currently a professor at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice.

He has received various awards and scholarships from institutions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Arts in Linz, Laser d'Or in Locarno, the National Prize for Plastic Arts granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the National Prize for Plastic Arts 2005. One of the most recent awards is the Velázquez Prize for Visual Arts 2009, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

His work has been exhibited in several museums, including the MoMA in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the Musée Contemporain in Montreal, the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. As for its presence in international competitions, it is worth mentioning its participation in the VI and X editions of the Documenta de Kassel (1977, 1997), the Whitney Biennial of American Art (1991) and the 51st Venice Biennial (2005), as well as those of São Paulo, Lyon, Taipei, Gwangju and Havana.

Published on: December 7, 2014

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