Juan Muñoz

Lisson Gallery, London
Private Collection, Belgium
Acquired from the above by the present owner

The Albuquerque Museum, The Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered, March - July 1993

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. All elements are intact. There is wear with associated scattered pigment losses throughout the balcony element. There is scattered surface dust throughout the floor of the balcony and within the recesses of the figures, most noticeably in the top of the figures’ heads. The figures’ surface texture is inherent to the artist’s working method. There is evidence of light rubbing with associated pigment loss to the right hand and arm of the left figure.
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"The balconies are absolutely full-grown, mature works. They presume a figurative element, and they manipulate architecture in a very theatrical way. They activate space by transforming its scale. By putting a balcony on the wall, you changed its scale. All of a sudden, the room becomes the sculpture. That has a precedent in Minimalism and Conceptual art." 

Paul Schimmel, "An Interview with Juan Muñoz," in Exh. Cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Juan Muñoz, 2001, p. 146