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Between the Frames, Chapter 4: The Museum

Antonio Muntadas

1991 00:53:17 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Video
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Independently Produced Interviews

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Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Museum: Between the Frames, Chapter 4

Curators and museum directors discuss the role of the museum in presenting, preserving, and contexualizing works of art for their visitors. Interview subjects represents such museums as the Centre Pompidou, Van Abbe Museum, Neue Gallery, Basler Kunstverein, Mönchengladbach Museum, W.R. Museum, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Muse d’Art de Catalunya, Philadelphia Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art-Boston, Hayden Gallery-MIT, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, Santa Barbara Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, DIA Art Foundation, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Porticus, and Musée d’art contemporain. The subjects’ comments are inter-cut with the perpetual motion of escalators in close-up.

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Antoni Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942, and has lived in New York since 1971. His work addresses social, political and communications issues, and the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, as well as channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas. He works on projects in different media such as photography, video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations. Since 1995, Muntadas has grouped together a set of works and projects titled On Translation emphasizing issues of interpretation, transcription and cultural translation. Their content, dimensions and materials are variable, and focus on the author’s personal experience and artistic activity in numerous countries over forty years.

Also see:
Antoni Muntadas: Video Portrait