"OT: Web" captura de pantalla
Exhibition
until 09.02.2003
until 09.02.2003
On Translation: Museum
Muntadas
To Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942), culture is translation: translation that activates mechanisms which reveal the ideologies underlying communicative processes, be they aesthetic, political, economic, emotional, technological or linguistic per se.
On Translation is a multimedia, transnational initiative made up of a series of installations, interventions, websites, public projects, objects, videos, conferences, texts and publications. It was originally presented in Helsinki in 1995, and since then it has gradually evolved in the course of its travels to numerous cities around the world.
The MACBA exhibition, Muntadas. On Translation: Museum, brought together the different versions of the project for the first time, outside of their original contexts, in an arduous process of reinterpretation of the work as a whole by the Museum. As such, the exhibition was also an internal debate on the limits, functions and challenges of the museums as institutions and the new audiences that it attracts.
On Translation: Museum is the most recent project in the seriesdeveloped by Antoni Muntadas under the generic title On Translation. Begun in Helsinki in 1995, this group of twenty-seven works analyses the concept of ‘translation’ from a wide-ranging perspective, which tackles linguistic, economic, political and cultural issues. In On Translation: Museum, Muntadas approaches the concept of translation as an internal debate with the museum-institution itself, focusing on the way it represents and interprets a work which is located in quite different situations and contexts. The result of this model of association between the artist and MACBA has taken the form of a project with six complementary parts:On Translation: Museum – Interpretation; On Translation: Museum – Presentation; On Translation: La imatge; On Translation: Web; On Translation: The Publication; On Translation. Public Space.
On Translation: Web
A project by Ricardo Iglesias
The metaphor of the knots is a personal vision of the work method involved in the On Translation series. There is no centre or hierarchy in the production; everything is part of a single idea, a single concern, a single string which crosses and intertwines and where each installation, each intervention, each knot takes on a particular, unique form, with its own time, space and context parameters, while still taking part in a subjective dialogue with the author. In the very nature of the knot we can find a number of important aspects to highlight: union, subjection, the formalisation and specification of different elements on the one hand; on the other, tension, generation, the movement produced when that union takes place.
Ricardo Iglesias
see more
show less
artist
Muntadas va néixer a Barcelona el 1942, i viu i treballa als Estats Units des del 1971. La seva obra, de caràcter multidisciplinari, analitza les institucions socials, els mecanismes de poder que les sostenen i la influència que exerceixen en la creació de l’imaginari col·lectiu. A Muntadas li interessen temes com ara la censura, els mitjans de comunicació, els àmbits públic i privat, i el paper de l’art com a fenomen contemporani. Els seus projectes es presenten amb mitjans diversos: fotografia, vídeo, internet, publicacions i intervencions urbanes. El seu treball multimèdia i les seves instal·lacions investiguen de quina manera els canals d’informació es fan servir per promoure o censurar idees.
Muntadas ha impartit cursos i seminaris a reconegudes institucions d’Europa i Amèrica, com a la Universitat de Califòrnia de San Diego, a l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de París, al San Francisco Art Institute, a la Universitat de Buenos Aires i al MIT de Cambridge a Massachusetts. Ha estat premiat en nombroses ocasions: per la Rockefeller Foundation (1980), la Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1984), el Centre national des artes plastiques de França (1990). També va obtenir el Premi Nacional d’Arts Plàstiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1996) i el Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas d’Espanya (2005).
meet the artist
On Translation: Museum
1 artists