Milan.
Bryan-Wilson, Julia
JUAN MUNOZ
HANGARBICOCCA * April 9-August 23 * Curated by Vicente Todoli Over
the past decade, high-profile exhibitions in major venues, including
Tate Modern, London, and the M useo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid, have kept Spanish artist Juan Munoz on the radar. His oeuvre has
aged unevenly: The figurative work now appears somewhat overwrought,
while the ambiguous architectural pieces have retained their currency.
Though Munoz's significance may lie in how he "returned the
human figure to contemporary sculpture" (as suggested by
HangarBicocca's press materials), it is valuable to reconsider
other facets of his practice. All the better, then, that this
exhibition--the artist's first retrospective in Italy--promises an
in-depth examination of his multimedia oeuvre. The show will include
some twenty works (that together feature more than ISO sculptures)
dating from 1986 until Munoz's death in 2001, alongside several
events that will foreground the artist's more allusive,
nonfigurative works in sound.