Juan MUÑOZ

Born in Madrid in 1953, Muñoz received his English education.

In London he met the Spanish Christina Iglesias, a sculptor like him, with whom he lives and has two children. A scholarship in the United States allowed him to meet the artist Richard Serra, he became the assistant of Mario Merz in Italy. Muñoz began in the 1980s, becoming one of the most eminent artistic representatives of the post-Franco era. His works feature enigmatic men, grayish mannequins made in three dimensions and placed in situations, in real or false architectures, balconies, trompe-l'oeil.

These installations therefore question the validity of perceptions by playing on distortions of scale, point of view and gravity. Friend of the essayist John Berger (the author of Ways of Seeing), Juan Muñoz was not a prophet in his country: he never represented Spain at the Venice Biennale, even if he lived nearby from Madrid. He has mainly exhibited in Northern Europe and the United States.