Museu dArt
Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
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MUNTADAS
ON TRANSLATION: MUSEUM
Opening: 28 November 2002, 7:30 p.m.
Exhibition dates: 29 November 2002 to 9 February 2003
MACBA
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
Barcelona, Spain
Tel. 34 93 412 08 10
http://www.macba.es
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The artistic activities of Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) have been defined
by
a critical analysis of the role of the media in the symbolic
construction
of contemporary social reality. From the mid-1970s onwards his attention
has focused on the environment created by what he calls the "media
landscape": political propaganda, advertising, economic and ideological
power groupings, and culture criticism.
On Translation: Museum is an exhibition in which the artists
projects
from the On Translation series are reinterpreted. This project
includes a
group of works and installations arranged in various series, series in
which Muntadas addresses the notion of translation in contemporary
society
and its influence on social rituals, economic negotiations and
inter-communicative strategies.
Since the realization of the first scheme, On Translation: The
Pavilion,
in Helsinki in 1995, more than twenty versions of the series have been
produced: On Translation: The Games, La mesa de negociación, The
Internet
Project, The Audience, The Monuments, El aplauso, The Transmission,
etc.
This exhibition at the MACBA, which also brings together a number of
earlier works and can be seen inside the museum as well as in different
places in Barcelona and on the Internet, covers four essential aspects
of
Muntadas work: architecture, the media, the city and the museum; an
urban
project realized especially for this occasion called On Translation:
The
Image, an on-line project sited in the projects section at
http://www.macba.es; and an in-depth
publication on the project called
Muntadas. On Translation (Barcelona: MACBA / Actar, 2002).
Curator:
José Lebrero Stals, in collaboration with Enric Franch, Valentín
Roma,
Rosa Pera and Ricardo Iglesias
Exhibition produced by: Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona
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