Art Metropole

#05141

Muntadas on translation: Stand By

Artist

Muntadas

Date

2006

Publisher

La Fábrica Editorial

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Hardcover

ISBN

978-849646-63326

Size

24.5 × 14 × 2 cm

Length

0 

Muntadas’s On Translation: I Giardini, the latest in a series of often site-specific On Translation projects completed over the last 10 years, is here documented from its inception. Translation is a metaphor, as Muntadas states, “I am not talking about translation in a literal sense, but in a cultural sense—how the world we live in is a totally translated world, everything is always filtered by some social, political, cultural and economic factor… by the media, of course, by context and by history.” Accordingly, I Giardini looks into the context and history of the Biennale’s Giardini del Castello, delving into the transformations and “translations” it has undergone over time, and investigating Venice’s status and the space that frames the Biennale. Muntadas notes, for instance, that a new Italian pavilion built on Mussolini’s orders was replaced again after the war.