Lot 29
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Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)
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Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)

Perfect Balcony

Details
Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)
Perfect Balcony
welded steel with switchblade
34 x 34½ x 17¼in. (86.2 x 87.6 x 43.6cm.)
Executed in 1988
Provenance
Private Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 6 May 1992, lot 227.
Private Collection, California.
London Projects, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
'A conversation, September 1996 between Juan Muñoz and James Lingwood', in Juan Muñoz, Monologues & Dialogues, exh. cat., Palacio Veláquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 1996, pp. 40-41.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

"Works such as an empty balcony were dealing with the absence of the human figure. But I wanted to make a work that stands between two positions-between doing nothing and watching, and passing by and being watched." (Juan Muñoz quoted in Juan Muñoz, Monologues & Dialogues, exh. cat., Palacio Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 1996, p. 64).

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