"Colección documental Between the Frames 1983-1993: Grabaciones originales - Entrevistas íntegras ...", 1983-1993
Activity
A conversation between Muntadas, Anne Bénichou and Bartomeu Marí
in progress
‘I conceived this work as a whole, whole as a project and in its presentation to the public. This project is the result of a process of ten years of work, a reflection on the system of art, a system that has been created by a (capitalist) society in a specific context and from a Western viewpoint. Evidently, it is also the result of my personal, subjective reflection on the world of art, its system and the various actors in force in a context that emerged in the early 1980s. Finally, the content has to do with the interpretation, the mediation and, on occasion, the manipulation of the work, by the people and the institutions who help to interpret, present, defend and “take care” of the work of artists. (…) A metaphor of the overall system on which art is based, but also an analysis of the various parts of which it is comprised.’ (Muntadas, 1994)
Until April 30, the MACBA will be exhibiting the installation Between the Frames: The Forum (Barcelona), 1983-1993 (2011) by Antoni Muntadas, recently incorporated into the Museum’s permanent Collection. During the period of exhibition, in the Study Centre visitors will be able to access the complete original interviews that constitute the raw material of the work, and which now are part of the Study Centre’s collection. The MACBA has also produced two publications directly related to Muntadas’s piece. Firstly, the transcribed fragments of the 160 interviews contained in the installation, and secondly (as part of the collection Col·lecció de la Col·lecció) a monograph entitled Between the Frames: The Forum, which includes an extensive interview with Muntadas by Anne Bénichou and a critical essay by the same author. Without attempting to explain or define the scope of the piece, the book invites new readings and interpretations of a long-term artistic project subject to constant transformation.
To celebrate the publication of this book, we invite you to participate in an open conversation between Antoni Muntadas, the theorist Anne Bénichou and the MACBA’s director, Bartomeu Marí.
