Institut Ramon LLull

Antoni Muntadas & Marshall Reese: Political Advertisement IX 1952-2016

Arts.  USA and Canada, 01/11/2016

For thirty two years, Muntadas and Reese have been compiling a history of presidential campaign spots following the evolution of political advertising from its beginnings in 1952 to the present. Political Advertisement is a personal vision of how politics and politicians are presented through the medium of television. 




This, their ninth version, updated to include ads from the 2016 presidential campaign, documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950’s. Surveying the American televisual campaign process from Eisenhower to Clinton and Trump, the artists trace the history of television ads as political strategy and marketing technique. The artists state, “Looking back at these political ads provides a key to understanding the evolution of images on television and the marketing of politics.”

Screenings:

Tuesday, November 1, 2016 – Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 – Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Friday, November 4, 2016 – SVA Theatre, New York, New York

Friday, November 4, 2016 – International House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Saturday, November 5, 2016 – AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland

Sunday, November 6, 2016 – Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario

 

Antoni Muntadas, born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1942, has lived and worked in New York since 1971.His work addresses social, political and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information. He works in different media such as photography, video, publications, internet and multi-media installations. He studied at the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales in Barcelona and the Pratt Graphic Center in New York. He has received several prizes and grants including those of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Electronica in Linz/Austria, Laser d'Or in Locarno, Switzerland and the Premi Nacional d'Arts Plastiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya. He created works commissioned by the Centre Nacionale des Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Fonds d'Arts Publics in Marseille, the Public Art Fund in New York.

Muntadas has taught and directed seminars at the UC San Diego, the MIT, the San Francisco Art Institute and Cooper Union (USA), Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, Grenoble and Paris (France) and the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), and many other institutions; he has been resident artist and consulting advisor in a number of research and education centers in North America, Europe and Australia. His works have been exhibited throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale, Documenta Vl and X in Kassel, the Sao Paulo Biennal, la Biennale de Lyon et La Havana and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum in California, the Wexner Arts Center in Columbus, Ohio, le Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, le Capc de Bordeaux, France, the Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.

Marshall Reese is a poet and video artist. In 1978, he received an NEA Creative Writers Fellowship for his poetry. He studied classical languages, classical art and architecture at Pomona College in California. He has collaborated with Nora Ligorano as Ligorano/Reese since the early 80's on installations, limited edition multiples and artists books. Their work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Rotunda Gallery, Schroder Romero Gallery, The Kitchen, the Sculpture Center, and Lincoln Center. They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA and Art Matters. Marshall Reese has collaborated on the Political Advertisement" series with Antoni Muntadas since 1984.

Screenings: Tuesday November 1 – Sunday November 6, 2016

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