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8/12/2014

Juan Munoz

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

curated by Russell Ferguson

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of selected works by Juan Muñoz from 1984-2001 which will open on Tuesday, December 9th and be on view through Saturday, January 31st. The exhibition is curated by Russell Ferguson and will be accompanied by a catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Three key works by Muñoz will be featured: the sculptural installations Thirteen Laughing at Each Other, 2001, Many Times, 1999 and a Figure Hanging from One Foot, 2001. These will be accompanied by works on paper and early wall sculptures. Including works such as empty or occupied balconies, isolated figures, and those laughing and in conversation, this group of works often puts viewers in an ambiguous position, looking but also seemingly being looked at. The work suggests, as Russell Ferguson writes, “the tension between the comfort of the group and the desire for individual autonomy.”

Regarded as one of the most important sculptors of his generation, Juan Muñoz was known for his return to the human form in art and for his emphasis on the relationship of sculpture, architecture and the viewer. In sculptures, drawings, ‘conversation pieces’, and immersive installations, he often placed the viewer in dramatic relationship to space and objects that were at once architectural and implied narrative or silence, a sense that something had happened or was about to happen. His sources ranged from literature, architecture, mythology, to music, film, theater, poetry. Ever the storyteller, his artistic activity extended to plays for radio and theater, writings and essays. Frequently, Muñoz’s sculptural tableaux offer the viewer an experience of physical passage through interior spaces, suggesting a psychological landscape of presence and distance, labyrinths and solitudes, urbanscapes and empty interiors, the collective and the individual.

“I sometimes feel that [some of] my work is about waiting, waiting for something to happen; on the one hand afraid in case it does happen, or even wishing that it had never occurred. It is like keeping a work in that state that we would call desire- keeping it at that level of desire, just holding it there that wish, that uncertainty, keeping the work still just here. Or like watching a door which one day a person might open.”-Juan Muñoz in Monologues and Dialogues, 1997

Image: Juan Muñoz, Many Times, Installation view Image

Opening: Tuesday, December 9th 6- 8 pm

Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Monday - Saturday, 10AM - 6PM

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