MACBA presents 'Between the Frames' by Muntadas

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) presents, in the framework of the Volume's exhibition, the installation Between the Frames. The Forum by artist Antoni Muntadas.

The project, which was completed over a ten-year period, reveals the artist's main concerns in his work during the 1980s: the relations between art and society; representation, interpretation and the values of art; and art's relations with the contemporary phenomena that are popular culture, the media and architecture. Between the Frames: The Forum clearly references the series On Translation, an open work that is still in progress.

The installation Between the Frames: The Forum is built around a series of interviews of artists, artist's agents and other mediators, and is divided into eight chapters: the dealers, the collectors, the galleries, the museums, the docents, the critics, the media, and an epilogue (the artists). Each section, which operates completely independently and, at the same time, as an integral part of the complete series, examines the roles of the different people and institutions that mediate between art and its audience. The (video) images operate as a metaphoric counterpoint to the (audio) commentaries that form the installation. The chapters are all similar in structure, as Muntadas intercuts the audio material from the interviews with different images.

Muntadas designed a modular structure to present Between the Frames at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, in 1994. This architectural structure creates a physical space for discussion, a "forum" to hear the voices of the different personalities interviewed.

Date: until May 6.
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. (MACBA). Plaça dels Angels, 1. 08001 Barcelona. Spain
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays from 11am to 7.30pm. Saturdays from 10am to 8pm. Sundays from 10am to 3pm.

See some parts of the installation below: