Oscar Munoz: Mirror Image
12 February 2008 - 5 April 2009
Central Galleries
Curator: Sebastian Lopez with Melanie KeenAcclaimed as one of Latin America's most significant living artists, Oscar Muñoz alludes to 50 years of political and social turmoil in his native Columbia in this his first Australian solo exhibition. Described by the prestigious UK magazine Apollo as 'beautiful and mysterious, little miracles and apparitions' Muñoz's art raises questions about the nature of illusion, association and memory. Mirror Image features an eclectic range of objects and media including; camera-obscuras, burnt paper recreations of newspapers and video works. Astonishing and subtle Muñoz's work possesses a transcendental quality that has transfixed audiences around the world.
Opening: Wednesday 11 February, 6pm
Free Floor talk with exhibition Curator Sebastian Lopez
Thursday 12 February, 1pm
Central Galleries
Mirror Image: Lugar a Dudas screening
Studio One
This screening presents a selection of moving image work by Colombian artists that has recently been shown at Lugar a Dudas, an artist-run space established by Oscar Muñoz in Cali, Colombia.
Core themes of death, obsessive love, fantasy and insurrection reveal the subtle interplay of the social and the political within art from Colombia.
Selected by Sebastian Lopez, Melanie Keen and Paul Stanley.
Screening programme:
Sin Decir Nada (13:48 min)
Diana Montenegro
Escondite (17:00 min)
Marcela Gomez
Videos Instuctivos (02:37 min)
Karime Garcia
Fuegos de Artificio (02:07 min)
Fernando Rubio Ahumada
JHS the Salvation
Mauricio Prieto/Ernesto Salmerón/ Eduardo Goyeneche
Las Flores del Mal (04:00 min)
Nadin Ospina
El Ojo de Dios (14:42 min)
Fernando Lopez
El Dragon de Comodo (15:30 min)
Jose Luis Rugeles
Come-coco Puzzle hunt (05:06 min)
Santiago Caicedo
Catano Dialogo (06:00 min)
Raquel Solorzano
La Casa que Cede (03:20)
Paulo Licona
El Cuarto
Sofe a Oggioni
Rebeldes del Sur (12:00 min)
Wilson Diaz
Asfalto
Rosemberg Sandoval
