Juan Munoz’s revolutionary oeuvre creates emotional and evocative narratives through sculpture, installation, drawing, writing, and sound. Situating viewers between his work and amongst each other, Munoz creates a magical intimacy between sculptures and onlookers. Although most known for sculptural installations, Munoz was a conceptual artist who thought deeply about art history and the golden age of painting specifically. His body of work expanded immensely in the year before he died, and this catalogue charts his trajectory and predicts where his momentum could have led.

Published on the occasion of the hugely successful, two-floor exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2022, this catalogue provides an expansive overview of Juan Munoz’s career in the period just before his death. Munoz regularly drew inspiration from conceptual artists like Donald Judd and Robert Smithson as well as the impressionist artist Edgar Degas. In an accompanying text, art historian and curator Guillaume Kientz contextualizes Juan Munoz’s influences within the art-historical canon. Acclaimed writer Siri Hustvedt writes a thoughtful response to Munoz’s iconic Conversation Piece. In an imagined interview between Juan Munoz and himself, Maurizio Cattelan further propels Munoz’s artistic momentum and potential in the time before his death. Also featured in this catalogue is a never before published interview between Juan Munoz and the art historian Michael Brenson.