Muntadas was born in Barcelona in 1942, and has lived and worked in the United States since 1971..
This exhibition celebrates football, the world's game, and its richness as a field for metaphorical inquiry.
Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas (b. 1942, Barcelona; lives and works in New York) is a post-conceptual multimedia artist considered to be one of the pioneers of media and conceptual art in Spain. Through his work with video, the Internet, photography, installation, text, public interventions, and more, Muntadas “has addressed topics such as the changing relationship between the public and the private, the naturalization of the logic of consumerism, the cultural homogenization processes imposed by globalization, the use of architecture as a tool for legitimating political and economic power, the importance of the mass media in the expansion of financial capitalism, the functioning of the artistic ecosystem or the exploitation of the fear of the ‘other’ as a strategy for social control.”[1] Throughout his career, Muntadas has focused on creating work that exposes various aspects of the complex, dark, but sometimes widely accepted innerworkings of society and the institutions which