Overview
- The exhibition, curated by former IVAM and Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí, runs through March 8 and gathers roughly forty works spanning sculpture, drawings, prints, books and cabinet pieces.
- Muñoz’s pieces are staged in dialogue with masterworks, from the Meninas room to the central gallery, creating sightlines to Velázquez, Goya and Rubens.
- The visit begins outside the Goya entrance with the artist’s final work, Trece riéndose unos de otros, and includes Conversation Piece III facing Rubens and Sara with billiard table near Las Meninas.
- The show foregrounds Muñoz’s declared practice of appropriating art history, echoing his own line that he ‘stole’ what he needed from earlier artists, a theme reinforced by the Prado’s presentation.
- Prado director Miguel Falomir frames the display as part of the museum’s occasional focus on contemporary creators shaped by its holdings, following shows on Fernando Zóbel and Sigmar Polke; Muñoz died in 2002, and his widow, Cristina Iglesias, attended the presentation.