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Lot Essay
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"Do you really need a handrail to go up the stairs or is it just a reassuring image? These bannisters are very strongly related to the body and to the passageway, to going through. They come from that moment when you lean on a balcony. I wanted to flatten the handrails so they become useless. At the same time, pressed up against the wall like that, they look like a balcony. They even share the same wooden structure at the top" (Juan Muñoz, exh. cat., Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 1996, p. 64).
Untitled (Pasa a mano) from 1987 is one of the first of Muñoz' explorations on the theme of passageways and insecurity in which he used the subject of the bannister to capture both a sense of boundary and of instability, creating a work in which he condenses the limitations and the fragility of life itself.
"Do you really need a handrail to go up the stairs or is it just a reassuring image? These bannisters are very strongly related to the body and to the passageway, to going through. They come from that moment when you lean on a balcony. I wanted to flatten the handrails so they become useless. At the same time, pressed up against the wall like that, they look like a balcony. They even share the same wooden structure at the top" (Juan Muñoz, exh. cat., Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 1996, p. 64).
Untitled (Pasa a mano) from 1987 is one of the first of Muñoz' explorations on the theme of passageways and insecurity in which he used the subject of the bannister to capture both a sense of boundary and of instability, creating a work in which he condenses the limitations and the fragility of life itself.