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Oscar Munoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in association with YYZ Artists' outlet.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial revealed glimpses of both inevitable death and the everlasting modernist quest for attempts at commemoration. Curated by Jose Roca, the exhibit includes 12 of Colombian artist Oscar Munoz' celebrated works. Munoz participated in the 5 2nd Venice Biennale in 2007, has exhibited his work extensively across Europe, North America and Latin America and is regarded as one of Latin America's most important contemporary artists. The artist's conceptually solid interpretations and poetically inventive representations of memory, place and time speak to a universal process of globalization including the loss of history and of identity.

Does memory lapse in times of war, death and violence? Munoz asks, "How can a society articulate a past...

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