Exhibitions
The Mint is filled with Antoni Muntadas and Asia
One project leads to another, says Muntadas, and each project has its own specific personality, which can be extended indefinitely. Muntadas's travels are one of the factors in the exhibition at the Museo Casa de la Moneda in Madrid, which will be on view until September 28.
Muntadas decided to replace the traditional workspace of a visual artist, the workshop or studio, with a space and time open to social reality and daily life. In each of his works, he creates an inner reflection, a dialogue, and even a parallel activation of his own projects, whether individual or collective.
Muntadas. About Asia, Mint Museum
The new exhibition is divided into four main sections: Asian Protocols, where Antoni Muntadas reflects on the variations in protocol in China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, exploring cultural differences in depth. This first section leads to Exercises on Past and Present Memories of the Philippines, with interventions on Manila shawls, ceramics, and colonial coins.
RED红is comprised of 64 photographs of Shanghai during Chinese National Day on October 1, 2017. The final section of the exhibition , Sobre/About Asia, is Life in Editing , the most recent piece that reflects on the editing of life. Nearly three decades of work on projects in major Asian metropolises, with important themes such as cultural translation, a critical view of the outsider, and spaces of memory and identity.
Muntadas. About Asia, Mint Museum
His proposal is based on highlighting the profound relationships between issues affecting a number of countries: Japan, China, Korea, and the Philippines. A case study would be the mere consideration of the meaning of the word "protocol" in several of these countries, which outlines a reality that provides a unique insight into various ways of thinking, sometimes very similar and sometimes almost contradictory.
