" Understanding Chaos", by Rosa Muñoz, at the Isolina Arbulu gallery
The artist Rosa Muñoz presents, at the Isolina Arbulu gallery, the exhibition La comprensión del caos, which presents the most recent work of this photographer, a crucial representative of the constructed photography of our country.
Rosa Muñoz, one of the greatest exponents of constructed photography, in which her first works are inscribed. Throughout her artistic career she has never ceased to experiment and push her own language, overflowing it and conquering a third dimension. This sign of identity in which the artist is recognised in her latest productions places the spectator in front of enigmatic and informative pieces, which reveal the fundamental questions that Muñoz has been tackling.
From the outset, Rosa Muñoz's work shows a continuous decontextualisation of objects and spaces. They are tamed exterior places or demolished interiors that are always inhabited despite the invisibility of their dwellers. Inhabitants evoked through furniture in inexplicable, discordant contexts, with which the artist makes a social critique of the moment. This permanent deconstruction and construction in Muñoz's work has led the artist to atomise images in order to explore the link, the expressive and visual capacity of any fragment of them. In this exercise of breaking up and composing, she incorporates wood and cellulose as supports that allude to a now physical nature, which has always been present in her work through her images. Thus Rosa Muñoz, in this new production, starts from photographs of stacked art books, formalising sculptural compositions of abstract impression, where each piece is intimately interconnected with the other, as an essential part of a whole. A paradigm of understanding through a fragmented reality, on the formulation of art as a kind of alchemy and continuous rethinking. An exercise in understanding chaos, which the artist carries out far from habitual patterns. (Curatorial text by Julieta de Haro, cultural manager and contemporary art consultant).
Rosa Muñoz's work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (MACUF), Centre Nacional d`Art Georges Pompidou (Paris), Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Estampa Collection, Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo Conde Duque de Madrid, Caisse de Dépôt et Consignation in France, Conca Collection, Pilar Citoler Collection and Houlihan Lokey Collection. READ ORIGINAL
