Juan Muñoz

Staircase 2

Lot Closed

March 18, 05:53 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Meeting New Art Halfway: The Collection of Anita Reiner

Juan Muñoz

1953 - 2001

Staircase 2

Corten steel and lamps

42⅞ by 30 by 32⅞ in. (108.9 by 76.2 by 83.5 cm.)

Executed in 1998.

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Estate of Anita Reiner, New York (acquired from the above in 2003)

"I'm trying to open sculpture to a larger frame of reference by including optical illusions. It seems necessary to me in order to reject the obsession with the physical object. For example, I know that I can make a sculpture that appears to weigh one ton out of ten pounds of polyester resin."

Juan Munoz