[ book tip by [ Medienkunst ] ] Judith Russi Kirshner writes
For more than twenty years, Spanish artist Antonio Muntadas has orchestrated remarkably complex installations whose content -- the analysis of the institutions of cultural and political power -- changes with each situation in which the work is presented.

This nomadic character is a hallmark of his work and career; but in a structural pattern characteristic of the artist, the work instantly contradicts its own mutable quality and is housed or recontextualized in the very form of the institution being examined. Projects earmarked for museum visitors, such as "Between the Frames" (1983-1993) and work for public spaces, are planned according to the anticipated audiences. The permanent appearance of the installations, whose architectural refinement is evident and often elegant, belies the evolving mass of information they contain. Another layer of the work is revealed in the design of these architectural pieces, for they are conceptualized to function semiotically, not merely to frame the situations they critique.

[ book info ] Balken, Debra Bricker/ Horrigan, Bill, : Muntadas : Between the Frames The Forum. Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, 1994 . ISBN: 0938437496.