The Exhibition

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: February 2, 2008 | Copyright information

Juan Munoz: a Retrospective Tate Modern, London SE1Until 27 April

The Spanish sculptor Juan Muoz shot to prominence in the UK with Double Bind, his haunting, remarkable 2001 Tate Turbine installation, which was exhibited only a few weeks before his death at the age of 48. Tate Modern's retrospective includes well-known sculptures such as Many Times (1999), The Prompter (1988) and Conversation Piece (1996).

"Muoz was certainly a very intelligent and inventive artist... Sometimes his figures are powerfully mute, isolated and resistant, contained in their statueness... It's baffling when an ...

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