DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.- K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen im Ständehaus will present Juan Muñoz - Rooms of my Mind, 14 October 2006 – 4 February 2007. The exhibition provides a comprehensive perspective of the work of the Spanish sculptor (died 2001), who was one of the most important renewers of a figurative and narrative art. On show is his so-called Floor Pieces (installations on a wide-surfaced ornamented floor) as well as single sculptures and sculpture groups, as for example, the Konversationsstücke (conversation pieces). In addition to the figurative works, there are others which only indirectly evoke the presence of persons within the space, such as the Balkone (Balcony). In addition to single works of sculpture and sculptural groups are presented drawings and, not least, audio plays in which Muñoz’s comprehensive interest in the fascination of space and illusion becomes visible. By its selection and presentation, the exhibition attempts to make visible the most important aspects of a piece of work, which are never exhausted in the production of any particular work. For the artist, of greater importance than the inventive single plastic formulation is the creation of a total atmosphere, at the centre of which is a space brimming with human emotions and ideas. The space, which the works of Muñoz outline, is a space of the memory of the seen, the experienced, the heard and the read. Without simply quoting them, his work covers a wide range of places and times of a very different type. In the works there emerges something far more resembling an independent space of observation and consciousness the concern of which is the wish to understand the world visually. Juan Muñoz was born in 1953, in Madrid and studied art in London and New York. Back in Madrid in the eighties, among other things he was curator of exhibitions focusing on the boundaries between art and architecture and art and ethnology. In 1984 he produced his own fully independent works, to which a gallery was to devote an exclusive exhibition. In 1986 he first began cooperating with the musician Alberto Iglesias, his brother-in-law. They were later to cooperate on a number of projects, among others, with the composers Gavin Bryars, the author John Berger and the actor John Malkovich. In addition to his activity as a sculptor and drawer Muñoz composed poetry and essays in which his wide-ranging interests from architecture to ethnology and magic become very clear. His larger single exhibitions took place in museums in Chicago, Krefeld, Eindhoven, Dublin, New York, Madrid and London, to name but a few. He also took part in the La Biennale di Venezia (Venice), the Biennale of Sydney (Sydney) and the Documenta IX in Kassel.