Blanca Muñoz

BLANCA MUÑOZ (Madrid, 1963).
"Knotted", 2015.
Stainless steel. Exemplary 7/12.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 27 x 37 x 30 cm.
Muñoz's sculptures are mostly made mainly in stainless steel as in this case. They are characterized by their ability to modulate light and generate sensations of lightness and dynamism. In fact the piece presents great similarities with the artist's public works; "Leonidas" (Madrid, 2004) and Géminis (Madrid, 2009). Muñoz has repeatedly pointed out her interest in the creation of permeable volumes that transform the perception of the urban or landscape environment.
Blanca Muñoz Gonzalo is a Spanish visual artist whose career is characterized by a singular sculptural language that combines technical rigor, material experimentation and a deep interest in the interaction between the work and the space that contains it. His production has developed between engraving and sculpture, disciplines that he explores with equal intensity, generating an artistic corpus in which research on light, transparency and perception occupies a central place.
Muñoz began her academic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, where she obtained her degree in 1988, specializing in painting. Her early vocation for engraving led her to continue her studies at the Calcografía Nazionale del Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome thanks to a scholarship from the Italian Government (1989-1990). Subsequently, she completed her training with stays at the Academia de España in Rome (1990-1991), the Dirección General de Asuntos Exteriores de México in Mexico City (1992-1993), and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Seville (1994). Between 1998 and 1999 he lived in London, where he studied digital printing techniques in depth, thus expanding his expressive repertoire.
Throughout his career, Muñoz has explored a diversity of artistic procedures: painting, ceramics, jewelry, intaglio engraving and sculpture. Since the 1990s he has consolidated a personal language that transitions from the two-dimensionality of engraving to the three-dimensional occupation of space, incorporating metallic elements that project out of the plane. This process of material expansion led to a sculptural practice of great formal coherence.
Her work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions in national and international museums and art centers, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo del Prado, the IVAM in Valencia and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., where her sculptures were part of the Heavy Metal exhibition. Her works are part of collections as diverse as the National Chalcography, the Bank of Spain, the Coca-Cola Foundation, the Würth Museum and numerous public and private institutions in Europe and America.