Inventario
vol. 31
Oscar Muñoz photographs
In an interview with Maria Wills from 2013, Oscar Muñoz declared, “I take photos the way everyone does, but that’s not what interests me… I’m much more interested in photos taken by other people.” And further along in the interview, he talks about his taste for the “anachronistic confrontations” contained in that combination or crossing between historical photos and different registers: “The images that come to us through time are not static; they are in a changing relationship constructed with the images we consume from day to day. New ones appear while others are cast aside… Many of our memories are constructed from images that do not reflect what we have lived ourselves. »
The process the artist engages here of charcoal dust prints translates his interest in images that are “halfway between materialisation and dematerialisation,” evoking memory and forgetting…
Oscar Muñoz
Oscar Muñoz, born in 1951 in Popayán (Colombia), is considered one of the most important contemporary artists in his country, and his work is drawing increasing attention from the international art scene. A graduate from the Fine Arts Institute (Instituto de Bellas Artes) of Cali, for the last forty years he has developed work around the relationship of images to memory, loss and the precarious nature of life. Thanks to his work in so many different media: photography, printmaking, drawing, installation art, video and sculpture, his work defies any systematic categorization.
Description:
10 charcoal dust prints set in plastic sheets
Case made of cardboard and brass
30 x 20 x 3 cm
Limited edition of 13 copies + 4 H.C
November 2014
Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti