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Juan Muñoz Pelotaris (Looking Left) 1999 Polyester resin. 57 x 22 x 19 in. (147.4 x 55.9 x 48.2 cm).
Provenance Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Catalogue Essay Juan Muñoz's works often create narratives of interplay and exchange, by situating his sculptures in relation to his viewers. As subject and object interact, the threshold between spectator and sculpture is blurred. Constantly testing the boundaries of interaction between the artist, the artwork and the viewer, his sculptural works create a compelling investigation into the possible relations among space, object, and audience. Pelotaris (Looking Left) is also characterized by an intense study of the ambiguous line between the observer and the observed, subject and object, inside and outside. Muñoz proposes a world in which his statue is alive and looking at us, just as much as we are looking at it. But rather than seeking to control the space around it, it withdraws into itself. Unable to move or speak, Muñoz’s figure becomes an allegory for the failure of communication and the impasse of language. “Muñoz’s figures are always either self-absorbed or involved in some enigmatic interchange that renders them obvious to all else. Never soliciting any engagement with the viewer, their impregnable self-preoccupation cachects their audience, thereby creating a relationship as unsettling as that generated between the architecture that shelters them and the discombobulated spectator.” (L. Cooke, ed., Juan Muñoz Interpolations, New York, 1999, p. 12) Read More