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Article: Empty hands, silent mouths. (installation art, Juan Munoz, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been described as a "Bostonian's dream of Italy." Mrs. Gardner herself has been called Boston's first installation artist for having flamboyantly assembled the artifacts and styles of various cultures and eras in her ersatz Venetian palace. The Spanish artist Juan Munoz, who was in residence at the Gardner Museum last fall, has in the past made spare tableaux of architectural elements such as columns, balconies, parquet floors and handrails, peopled with clumsy wood or terra-cotta figures. He thus was a promising candidate to make an exhibition responding to the collection, which remains just as it was at Mrs. Gardner's death in 1924. ...