Considered one of the pioneers of media art and conceptual art in Spain, he studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Barcelona and at the Pratt Graphic Center in New York, where he has lived since 1971. He has given and directed seminars at various institutions in Europe and the United States and in 2009 he received the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts.
His work contains a critical perspective, where the artist addresses social, political and communication issues. Among these, he deals with the relationship between public and private space within certain social frameworks or the manipulation of the media when it comes to censoring or spreading ideas. The metaphor of the media landscape or critical subjectivity are key terms to understand his productions. His works contain a clear processual dimension in which he usually makes the spectator participate directly. He uses multiple media: interventions in public space, video and photography, editing of printed publications, the Internet and new digital tools, multimedia installations, research projects, etc.
The Fundació Suñol preserves four works by the artist: The last ten minutes (1976), Estovalles ritual (1982), Meeting MACBA (2002) and Retrat de Pep Suñol (2009). A solo exhibition was dedicated to him in January 2014 entitled ‘Act 28: Muntadas/Franch’, which addressed the multiple collaborations that Antoni Muntadas and Enric Franch have carried out over almost thirty years.
List of artworks
The last ten minutes , 1976
Estovalles ritual , 1982
Retrat de Pep Suñol , 2009
Retrat de Pep Suñol , 2009
The last ten minutes , 1976
Estovalles ritual , 1982
Retrat de Pep Suñol , 2009
Exhibition devices
Act 28: Muntadas/Franch
Exhibition about the many collaborations that Antoni Muntadas and Enric Franch have carried out over almost thirty...
Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
In Three Acts
The third and final act goes into the great iconographic motive of art, the element that questions the chronologies and brings to this day the verisimilitude of the whole...
Situació Color
Loop 2011
The Fundació Suñol presents in the Nivell Zero space two historical videos from the foundation’s archives, commissioned by Josep...
New Images from Spain
1980
Guggenheim Museum, New...
FACE(S)
A project by Susoespai
FACE(S) presents a selection of works done by the people participating in the workshops of Susoespai as part of the visits to the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds...
Rosa Romero: Mira-mira
Performance
At the end of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the Fundació Suñol is organizing an artistic performance in collaboration with La Caldera les...
Per la cara!
Taller familiar
Amb motiu de l’exposició Vint rostres i tres multituds, el darrer acte del tríptic expositiu En tres actes, us proposem gaudir d'un taller per a tota la família on...
Guided tour
Walking with the River. Eva Lootz
We invite you to visit the exhibition Walking with the River by the artist Eva Lootz with the help of a member of the educational team of the Fundació...
Dialogue with Pol Guash and Valentín Romà
Online video
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, we invite the writer Pol Guasch to have a dialogue with the co-curator of the exhibition series In...
Guided tour with Valentín Roma to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
On the occasion of the exhibition Twenty Faces and Three Crowds, the last chapter of the thryptic In Three Acts,we suggest you visit the exhibition with Valentín...
Guided tour to Twenty Faces and Three Crowds
Festa Major de Les Corts
Fundació Suñol organizes a visit to the exhibtion Twenty Faces and Three Crowds conducted by the fundation’s...
Miralda and Jaume Xifra, Situació Color, 1976
Documental video of the party-ritual created by the artists Antonio Miralda and Jaume Xifra for the opening of Josep Suñol's house in...
Guided tours to Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
The Fundació Suñol organizes some commented tours for individual audience through the exhibition Fernando Vijande. Portrait:...
Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987
José Luis Alexanco and Daniel Giralt-Miracle
José Luis Alexanco —artist and coorganizer of the exhibition— and Daniel Giralt-Miracle —art critic and historian— will lead a tour visit of Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 on Monday, February...
Open days
December 2017 and January 2018
Visit for free the current exhibition at the Fundació Suñol Fernando Vijande. Portrait: 1971-1987 to say goodbye to 2017 and salute the new year...
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