ExhibitionSeptember 8, 2021
Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia at Phoenix Art Museum
Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia features works exploring time, memory, history, and knowledge, including early charcoal drawings and hybrid works created from the 1980s to the present day combining photographic processes with drawing, printmaking, installation, video, sculpture, and interactive elements. The retrospective will open at Phoenix Art Museum from September 3, 2021, through January 16, 2022, before traveling to the Blanton Museum of Art in Spring 2022.
The exhibition is the first survey of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s work in the United States. Although he has had large-scale retrospectives throughout Europe and Latin America, Invisibilia will introduce U.S. audiences to a broad scope of his evolving practice.
Beginning with his early, stark charcoal drawings from the late 1970s and early 1980s, whose approach to light and shade continued to impact Muñoz’s aesthetic in later photographic and video works. The exhibition will also include approximately 50 exemplary works from his most evocative series created during the late 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to the present day, including site-specific work, to trace the evolution of his practice.
Rather than respecting chronology, the exhibition’s structure presents a practice in flux with an artist continuously experimenting with new artistic means as he seeks to define and refine his philosophies by deconstructing the photographic medium. This exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the artist himself, encompassing the poetics, the politics, and the philosophical underpinnings of the unstable imagery Muñoz has created, which, nevertheless, becomes indelible in our imaginations.
Invisibilia will be accompanied by the first comprehensive bilingual catalog that explores the artist’s work, with contributions by leading scholars in the field.
For more information, visit: https://phxart.org/exhibition/oscar-munoz-invisibilia/
The exhibition is the first survey of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s work in the United States. Although he has had large-scale retrospectives throughout Europe and Latin America, Invisibilia will introduce U.S. audiences to a broad scope of his evolving practice.
Beginning with his early, stark charcoal drawings from the late 1970s and early 1980s, whose approach to light and shade continued to impact Muñoz’s aesthetic in later photographic and video works. The exhibition will also include approximately 50 exemplary works from his most evocative series created during the late 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to the present day, including site-specific work, to trace the evolution of his practice.
Rather than respecting chronology, the exhibition’s structure presents a practice in flux with an artist continuously experimenting with new artistic means as he seeks to define and refine his philosophies by deconstructing the photographic medium. This exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the artist himself, encompassing the poetics, the politics, and the philosophical underpinnings of the unstable imagery Muñoz has created, which, nevertheless, becomes indelible in our imaginations.
Invisibilia will be accompanied by the first comprehensive bilingual catalog that explores the artist’s work, with contributions by leading scholars in the field.
For more information, visit: https://phxart.org/exhibition/oscar-munoz-invisibilia/
