Muntadas on Translation: I Giardini (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Muntadas, Antoni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8472329526 ISBN 13: 9788472329522

Publisher: Actar, 1899

Synopsis

In a year when Spanish curators directed the Venice Biennale for the first time, Antoni Muntadas, representing Spain in the Spanish pavilion, told a reporter that the Biennale "takes its ideas from international fairs. It connotes the theme park. There was exoticism, invention, the new... but by now it is an obsolete structure." Muntadas's On Translation: I Giardini, the latest in a series of often site-specific On Translation projects completed over the last 10 years, is here documented from its inception. Translation is a metaphor, as Muntadas states, "I am not talking about translation in a literal sense, but in a cultural sense--how the world we live in is a totally translated world, everything is always filtered by some social, political, cultural and economic factor... by the media, of course, by context and by history." Accordingly, I Giardini looks into the context and history of the Biennale's Giardini del Castello, delving into the transformations and "translations" it has undergone over time, and investigating Venice's status and the space that frames the Biennale. Muntadas notes, for instance, that a new Italian pavilion built on Mussolini's orders was replaced again after the war.

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About the Author:

Antoni Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942 and has lived and worked in New York since 1971. Among his many honors are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. His works have been exhibited at important international events including two Documentas and biennials in Venice, Sao Paulo and Lyons, as well as at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Actar
• Publication date: 1899
• ISBN 10: 8472329526
• ISBN 13: 9788472329522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446