Portrait of a Turkish Man Drawing
1995
A richly rendered figure emerges from the paper through bold, expressive strokes of oil stick, capturing a Turkish man absorbed in the act of drawing. Muñoz employs a raw, gestural quality that blurs the boundary between representation and abstraction, reflecting his broader fascination with human presence, performance, and enigmatic identity. The work carries an intimate yet unsettling tension, as the subject's creative act mirrors the artist's own hand at work.
- Medium
- oil stick on paper
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- Auction House · Phillips
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February 28, 2017
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The fgurative sculptures of Spanish artist Juan Muñoz, who is a self-acknowledged storyteller, combine a personal exploration of human experience with a theatricality, synthesizing an emotional calm with the cerebral. Size plays a key conceptual role in all of Muñoz’s sculptures, as the slightly smaller than life-size fgures isolate themselves from the spectator, creating a sense of exclusion from the viewer. However, the present lot carries with it a unique sense of vertical scale, featuring one fgure on the shoulders of another.
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