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From
24 May to 13 July the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund presents On
Translation: Das Museum, a solo exhibition of the artist Antoni
Muntadas, who was born in 1942 in Barcelona and has lived in New
York since 1971.
With the exhibition "On Translation: Das Museum", Muntadas,
whose cultural and media critical work has been shown in international
exhibitions, documenta 6 and X as well as in numerous Biennales,
will feature for the first time in a major solo exhibition in Germany.
The focus of the exhibition is his "On Translation" series
begun in 1995 and which has grown to comprises 29 very different
projects, supplemented by further works from the seventies to the
nineties.
The "On Translation" series, whose individual projects
were developed both for the public space and for art institutions
in various cities in Europe, the USA and Latin America, deals with
the mechanisms and effects of "translation" under the
conditions of globalisation. The problem of translation from one
language into another plays an equally important role as the social,
political or economic contexts of transfer, transmission or transformation.
The series negotiates culture – in the broadest sense –
as a permanent process of translation.
The most recent project in the "On Translation" series
took place in 2002/03 at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
(MACBA) and is to be continued in a new interpretation in Dortmund:
"On Translation: Museum" or "On Translation: Das
Museum"– the slightly modified title for Dortmund –
investigates the museum as a place and institution of mediation,
of "translation" between artists, works and the audience.
Initiated by Muntadas the exhibition "On Translation: Das Museum"
has been developed by media_art_net dortmund in co-operation with
the MACBA.
In
the framework of the exhibition a film and video programme
curated by the film critic Eugeni Bonet (Barcelona) will be screened
from 4 – 6 July.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition (english/ german)
with contributions from Reinhard Braun (Graz), Valentín Roma
(Barcelona), Eugeni Bonet (Barcelona), Iris Dressler and Hans D.
Christ.
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