Juan Muñoz

The artist’s installations simulated streetscapes in which various scenes were encountered. The audience was drawn in to engage and interact with these scenes by walking through the installation from one setting to the next. Our challenge was to translate the movement of the audience through the exhibition into the flow of the book.

We echoed the sequence of interactions with black-and-white images that slowly filtered into color, with its opposite counterpart in the second half of the book going from color to black and white. The text part, which separates the two image-parts of the book, mimics the literary design, working with classic narrative or theatricality of the exhibitions.

Art director: Karen Kelly
Designer/compositor: Filiep Tacq
Illustrator: Juan Munoz
Photographers: Cathy Carver, Cuauhtli Gutierrez, Michael Goodman, Attilio Maranzano
Production coordinators: Karen Kelly, Bettina Funcke
Author: Lynne Cooke
Trim size: 7 1/2 x 11 inches
Pages: 124
Quantity printed: 2,000
Typeface: Bodoni
Printer/binder: Ediciones El Viso (Madrid)
Paper: 170 gram Maco Matte
Binding method: Thread-sewn/straight spine and joint hardcover, glued with paper and high-quality cloth; head and rail band bound in forms of eight pages
Publisher/client: Dia Center for the Arts