Among the most significant artists to rise to international prominence in the mid-1980s and 1990s, Muñoz sought to foreground the relationship between the art object, architectural space, and the viewer in his formally and conceptually inventive work. Until his untimely death at the age of forty-eight, he produced an extensive, powerfully evocative body of work that includes not only sculptures and installations but also drawings, writings, sound works, theater pieces, and curatorial projects that uniquely explore the narrative and philosophical possibilities of art.
As Todolí notes, “Juan Muñoz was an artist who, when confronted with a problem, would find a solution, a way out, and then look for a new problem, taking nothing for granted. He was always looking to make trouble, for a new way of looking at things.”
David Zwirner
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