Tate Modern, London
until April 27
Guggenheim Bilbao
27 May - 28 Sep 2008
Left: Juan Muñoz
Many Times (detail), 1999
Private collection © The estate of Juan Muñoz
Photo © Musée De Grenoble, Jean Luc Lacroix
LF caught this excellent retrospective of the late, great Madrileño at the Tate before it closed, and it would be well worth a detour to Bilbao if you find yourself in the 'hood.
All the work is stupendously good and was impressively mounted in the Tate Modern's austere and soaring spaces.
The work reproduced here ('Many Times', 1999) is one of those rare installations that LF considers a total knockout - a (gallery opening?) moment is frozen in time, yet to walk among the hundreds of cloned little grey oriental men is to participate in an extraordinary, almost living tableau. Funny, disturbing, profound.
Hasta luego
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