Juan Muñoz

The artist attempts to show the discrepancies between the forms of daily life and their content, and he has a taste for the absurd, and was inspired by the Surrealists and Duchamp's Readymades. In the mid-1980s, he began working with bits of architecture that he transformed into potential sculptures. In several of his other works, the human body manifests through a representation in bronze and resin, such as in the series Conversation Piece (1996), which features anonymous characters, all captured in enigmatic poses, which elicit a sense of dissonance and free associations in the viewer. His strange figures seem frozen in an impossible dialogue.

In 1986, the Fondation Cartier, in collaboration with the Fundació Caja de Pensiones in Madrid, organised an exhibition that brought together seventeen Spanish painters and sculptors, all born after 1940. The diversity of the fifty works presented shows the vitality of the creative scene in Spain, trending towards a new existentialism in painting, and Munoz himself expresses a certain neo-Surrealism in his sculpture. Muñoz is a manipulator of forms and images as well as an author. He has actually written ten texts on the art of cheating at cards, which were actually set to music by English composer Gavin Bryars and presented by the Fondation Cartier, on October 30, 1997, for a Soirée Nomade.