The works that comprise Cuerpos por un momento share drawing and annotation as the origin of their execution, videos that have been made at various moments in the artist’s career. The beginning of each process, performance or video begins with drawing and is developed in various formats revolving around working from the body, text and space.

These are the works on exhibition:

Caja Roja, 1998
Video. Ion Munduate. 3 min

Lucia con zeta, 1998
Video-instalation. Ion Munduate. 12 min
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country Collection. Artium Museoa

Traduciendo Locus. Cuaderno 2, 2016
Video screening. Ion Munduate – Blanca Calvo. 24 min

Ion Munduate (San Sebastian 1969) is trained in dance and performance, and he uses video in his work in addition to installations and performance. He was co-director of Mugatxoan between 1998 and 2012.

Image: Lucia con zeta (still), 1998. Ion Munduate

Press Release Brochure

The aim of the Contexts from a Collection series of exhibitions is to showcase the works of artists that have recently been added to the Artium Collection. These are exhibition projects in which the works incorporated into the museum’s collections are related to other productions by artists, archives and documentation.