Antoni Muntadas exhibits his work at the EL PAÍS stand at ARCOmadrid

 Muntadas explores the communicative dysfunction

of our era

Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, ​​1942) is to join the EL PAÍS exhibition space at Contemporary Art Fair Arco at Madrid’s Ifema from February 26 to March 1. The fair officially opens on Thursday. This is ARCOmadrid’s 39th edition and is set to bring together 209 gallery owners from 30 countries, showcasing the work of artists through talks, guided tours and a wide range of artist projects.

Muntadas explores the written word’s losing battle against the image. The artist, a Velázquez Prize laureate (2009), explained in a recent interview for EL PAÍS that “society has degraded the word with the help of politics and the media. Fake news and new communication systems have contributed to this decline, a decline he reflects in a montage where words like “fear” or “opinion” dissolve at the sight of the observer.

Palabras (Words), is the title Muntadas’ work at the EL PAÍS space in ARCOmadrid, which features words and terms such as opinion, responsibility, fake news, debate, politics, fear and ideology. Communication systems and fake news are both to blame for the decomposition of words, aided in large part by their political misuse, says Muntadas, who explores the upheaval of the political and media dictionary as he returns to topics he previously explored in the exhibition  Palabras, palabras…

Muntadas is thus the latest artist to have exhibited at the EL PAÍS exhibition space at Arco over the years.