The Art of Oscar Muñoz * 1951, Popayán, Colombia. Living and working in Cali, Colombia OpenART 2017 at Örebro County Museum 18/6 2017 10/9 2017 In the summer of 2017, Örebro again became the urban tumble scene of art. OpenART, Sweden’s largest biennia

The Art of Oscar Muñoz * 1951, Popayán, Colombia. Living and working in Cali, Colombia OpenART 2017 at Örebro County Museum 18/6 2017 10/9 2017 In the summer of 2017, Örebro again became the urban tumble scene of art. OpenART, Sweden’s largest biennial for contemporary art in public space, opens for the sixth time. It becomes one, of many long-awaited, public encounter with art in the citycore. The city room is loaded for three months with exciting creativity, magical experiences, and breathtaking mind tracks. The special focus countries of 2017 are Japan and Colombia. The museum is filled by OpenART this summer both in the exhibition halls and on the cadastre. Two OpenART artists are given extra space at the County Museum. One is the Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz who is something of a magician with his vanishing portraits where accuracy and skill underlie poetically charged works. His works of art concern questions about the most fundamental importance and use of images in our culture questions about image and memory, identity, absence and death. Chiharu Shiota from Japan, who claims two of the museum’s halls for his large and suggestive works. She is best known internationally for her giant weaves, weaves that fill whole halls and seem to link abstract and very everyday objects in intricate cobwebs. The nets carry objects like keys, dresses, shoes, boats or suitcases and tell us hidden stories that are surrounded by the thousands of threads. In addition to installation art, Shiota collaborates with choreographers and composers in opera, concert and dance projects. The Upper Gallery shows a presentation about the other Colombian and Japanese artists participating with works out in town. Here there are tastings of what they work with in other contexts, their own stories about their work and their artistry.