Muntadas is the artist with whom we will open the new space of Prats Nogueras Blanchard, starting on April 5, 2024. The exhibition is titled “PARATOPIAS” and presents works carried out at various times and contexts. The pieces are gathered around paratopia, a term defined by the linguist Dominique Maingueneau.
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Mexico City, 1974
Lives and works in Barcelona
Erick Beltrán analyzes and reflects on the edition concept and the discourse constructions. He investigates the power that the different graphic means exert in their distribution of information, as well as explicit treatment on different conducts and values.
He works with diverse formats as the multiple or the book; he experiments and investigates the link between public art and the diverse graphic languages.
The archive, the museum and the library are tools and natural means in their investigation process. A process in which the edition concept focuses all the work, understanding it as the mechanism with which communication through images that create political, economical and cultural discourses in contemporary societies are defined, evaluated, classified and reproduced.
Barcelona, 1942
Lives and works between Barcelona, New York and Venice.
Antoni Muntadas’s work has developed from its beginning –early seventies– a constant criticism towards the languages and messages of the media as clear instruments of power.
Since the first moment he used the video as useful tool to dissect and make the mechanisms of communications visible, referring to television and the designated `media landscape´. This genuine study and treatment turned him into an early pioneer in the audiovisual artistic field.
Likewise, Muntadas has analyzed and questioned the relationships that are established between the public and the private through his video works, photographs and multimedia installations; it’s from the early nineties that he incorporates internet to this list.
Also, since the 90s, he initiates new kinds of long-term. In each of these projects a principal concept is developed, which extends through different stages and contexts.