Exhibition on the table: Muntadas
Duration: 2019 March 17 – May 15
Venue: 2F CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai
Perception and Warnings, 2019,
color, sound, 5’31
In the occasion of online screening of Mutadas’s video work “Perception and Warnings”, Arthub presents the video installation in our space. The installation gathers two of the main Muntadas work lines: Sub-senses and On Translation: Warning. The installation summarizes the universe of his artistic practice where images are used to talk about ideas. Stickers alert the audiences to the need to get involved and the screens warn about the importance of using our whole nature: reasoning, emotion and sensorial perception. All this keeping in mind the significance of sub-senses as taste, smell and touch, and not only sight and hearing, in which the artistic experience has been usually focused.
About artist
Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942), lives and works in in NYC but he has developed his works in diverse places around the world. As a multidisciplinary artist, by his works he analyses social institutions, the mechanisms of power that sustain them and the influence they exert on the creation of the collective imagination. Muntadas is interested in topics such as censorship, the mass media, the public and private spheres, and the role of art as a contemporary phenomenon. His projects are presented in diverse media: photography, video, internet, publications and urban interventions. His multimedia works and installations investigate how in present times information channels are used to promote or censor ideas.
His projects have been exhibited in museums such as The MoMa, Guggenhein of New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and among others. He has selected participant on international events such as Documenta Kassel, and the Venice Biennale. Besides he has received several international prizes and grants, including those of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2005, and Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas 2009 granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. His works has been collected by all the museums where have been showed, but also by other prestigious public and private collections.
Muntadas was Professor of MIT in Cambridge for more than 30 years. He has taught and directed seminars at diverse institutions throughout Europe, the United States, Latin America and China. He has also been welcomed as a resident artist and consulting advisor by various prestigious research and education centres on the world. Currently is Professor at the Instituto Universitario de Arquitectura del Veneto in Venice. Recent solo shows in China are Muntadas Video Works in OCAT Shanghai in 2017 and Asian Protocols in Three Shadows Photography Art Center of Beijing in 2018.
