🗿🎭 Juan Muñoz: "The Stories We Do Not Tell" Debuts at Museo Tamayo!

Tomorrow, Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (1953–2001) will haunt Mexico City’s Museo Tamayo with his first-ever Latin American retrospective. 🌍🖼️ Titled Las historias que no contamos (The Stories We Do Not Tell), this exhibition dives into Muñoz’s obsession with voicelessness, memory, and the uncanny. 👥 Who Was Juan Muñoz? A master of disquiet, Muñoz crafted life-sized figures that linger in architectural limbo. 🚶♂️ His sculptures—frozen mid-step, mid-whisper—trigger vertigo, déjà vu, or that eerie feeling of being watched. 👀 Think: a man levitating above a staircase, or a crowd of faceless figures whispering in a circular prison. 🗝️ The Exhibition’s Hook Inspired by prosopopoeia (the rhetorical act of giving voice to the voiceless), Muñoz’s work blurs lines between sculpture, theater, and philosophy. 🎭 His “mise en image”—staging scenes like a film director—forces viewers to confront their role as both witness and accomplice. 🕵️♀️ 📅 Vital Info When: June 20–Oct 13, 2024 🗓️ Where: Museo Tamayo, Paseo de la Reforma 51, Chapultepec Forest 🌳 Cost: TBD (but Tamayo’s usually ~$8 USD) 💸 💡 Why You Need to See This Scale: Muñoz’s large-scale installations swallow you whole. 🌀 Sound: His audio pieces (whispers, footsteps) make your skin crawl. 👂 Legacy: Though he died at 48, his influence on contemporary art is seismic. 🌋 📸 Instagrammable Moments The Double Bind series: Mirrored figures that multiply like ghosts. 👥👥 Conversation Piece: A circular bench of strangers who never meet. 💬 The museum’s rooftop: Chapultepec Forest views + a Muñoz-esque existential crisis. 🌆🌳 🎭 Muñoz’s Mantra “Art should be a bad host—uncomfortable, unsettling, but unforgettable.” 🧿 This exhibit lives up to that. #JuanMunoz #TamayoMuseum #ContemporaryArt 🇲🇽🗿