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SC Gallery presents “#CASA #MAPA #CIELO #TRAMPAS”, solo show by artist Daniel Muñoz.
13/12/2019 – 31/03/2020
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This exhibition by Daniel Muñoz (Moraleja, province of Cáceres, Spain, 1980) explores some conflicts generated between the two fields in which he has developed his body of work since the mid-1990s: the public context and the private setting. Muñoz uses the exhibition space as a tool to generate analogies around the habitat and the escapes. A series of images of different kinds suggest diverse strolls, stops, escapes, and traps, informing a set of psychological spaces that question ideas around the concepts of home, magic, the street, or the market. This exhibition is divided in two blocks composed by a series of drawings and murals twisted by nature and offered as a single possible journey.
To the left, we find the section entitled “El cielo y las trampas” (“The sky and the traps”): a huge image with romantic hues dotted with small architectural drawings that make reference to isolation and, at the same time, indicate astronomical coordinates or non-existent mythological places.
To the right, “La casa y el mapa” (“The home and the map”): a section with a mural and several drawings that address questions about the commercialization of works from the ambiguous and nebulous circuit of public art. In this case, Muñoz refers to the worship of ruin and the art object, thus invoking the ghosts of the market. Here we also find a map that requires the participation of the public to be completed and a drawing that, cornered, splits into two versions of itself.
From the beginning, Daniel Muñoz has developed his body of work in the street. As a consequence, he has always explored issues related to how individuals modify their surroundings. His body of work raises questions around the regularization of public art, its relation with architecture and all other elements that conform landscape these days. He also examines the frictions between these practices with the market and the different actors that create the discourses of contemporary art.
All his works intertwine codes from different fields, such as history, advertisement language, or popular culture. Using some narratives characteristic of classic drawing, Muñoz explores ideas related to the current hyper-access to images, and he faces apparently mundane issues with the supposed solemnity of arts-related language.
During the last 15 years, he has made many interventions in cities such as London, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Tokyo or Vancouver. He has also had his works exhibited in spaces such as the BACC Museum of Bangkok, Thailand, the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, the Walter Otero Gallery in San Juan, Puerto Rico, o the Luis Adelantado Gallery in Valencia, Spain.
His work has been published in numerous art-specific publications and books in several countries.
“Bilocación 2”
Watercolour and gouache on Hahnemuhle 300gm paper. 2019.
77,5 x 53 cm
“La casa” (“The house”)
Ink on paper (Hahnemuhle 300gm). 2019.
107,5 x 78 cm
“Bilocación 1”
Watercolour and gouache on Hahnemuhle 300gm paper. 2019.
77,5 x 53 cm
