The museum as public square. Juan Luis Moraza at Reina Sofía.

Abstract

Located between language and its ideal construction, Juan Luis Moraza's (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1960) conceptual research works on spaces inhabited by the artist himself. The Reina Sofía Museum exhibited an extensive selection ofhis work República, which itself became transformed into Moraza 's Museum, a space of participation where spectators are key in the proposed process of renovation. República enquires into the crisis of representation, the dilemma of ornament, public space and the role of spectatorship with the aim of stating a system of "implexities", a confl.uence of complexity and implication.