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Juan Muñoz was a special case in Spanish sculpture of the 1980s and 1990s because of the complex cosmopolitan character of his artistic personality, formed during the years of training in London and New York between 1979 and 1983, and reaching fruition not only in his plastic works (sculpture and drawings) but also in his essays, his literary and audio creation and his exhibition curation.
I Saw It in Bologna (Lo vi en Bolonia) has all the aspects that define the concept of the figure and of the space in a Juan Muñoz work. The sculptural installation was produced in the same year as his first Conversations, in which various figures, also without legs like the main figure in the Museum piece, shared a space in such a way that not only were they ignoring each other, but, like the hooded figure in I Saw It in Bologna , were absolutely removed from the possible viewer. I Saw It in Bologna is also the materialisation of a vision of exterior space that alludes to the artist’s concept of the city as a place of transition, and to his idea of the Baroque as a space of illusionism and dislocation.
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