Juan Munoz (1953-2001) Google Images

A review of a sculptor.

The sculptor Munoz had a fine sense for materials (steal, resin, glass, wax, ..), for architectural space (the height of buildings, the space occupied by a rotating scultpture, ..) and for a detached contemplation of the strangeness of human existence. His sculptures of exceptional human beings (dwarfs, ballerinas with legs replaced by half a (wobbling) ball), placed in remote places of galleries and museums leave room for appreciating his fine art of balancing elegance with functionality, and roughness with soft twists, and for not identifying blindly with his self-absorbed figures.

Munoz had a retrospective at the Tate Modern (London, UK) in 2008.

Copyright 2008, by Jan Troost