Muntadas: …Baixa A Bola!

Antoni Muntadas’ exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina takes its name from a football move (to play low) that turned into a popular expression in Brazil, meaning “take it easy”.

“…Baixa A Bola!”, Antoni Muntadas’ exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina, in São Paulo, investigates topics such as mass events, control, spectacle, violence, sport and football – themes explored by the artist since the late 1970s.

The exhibition features a selection of images and video projections from the 1990s and 2000s, as well as recent unseen printed wall works using archival material such as newspaper headlines and internet images from Brazil and abroad.

Barcelona-born but a longtime New Yorker, Muntadas is considered one of the early and significant practitioners of media and conceptual art. He figures among the first generation of artists exploring the social and political power of mass culture and mass media and works in diverse disciplines spanning photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations and urban interventions. The interaction between citizens and contemporary social and cultural systems are at the core of his research.

“…Baixa A Bola!” is build on Muntadas’s previous Stadiums – an ongoing project since 1989, exploring the stadium from the perspectives of architecture, audience and propaganda. The installations are tailored for the gallery space and the local context, using videos and sounds that denote how politics, security, order and control come together during mass events. The most recent Stadium installation was Stadium XVIII presented at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in 2011.

Anotni Muntadas — Antoni Muntadas, *Stadia/Furniture/audience*, 1990. 12 Cibachromes. 40 x 30 in. courtesy: Kent Fine Art LLC

until August 2, 2014
Antoni Muntadas
…Baixa A Bola!
Galeria Luisa Strina
Rua Padre João Manuel, 755
Cerqueira César, São Paulo, Brazil

Muntadas: …Baixa A Bola!

Antoni Muntadas’ exhibition at Galeria Luisa Strina takes its name from a football move (to play low) that turned into a popular expression in Brazil, meaning “take it easy”.

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