JUAN MUÑOZ
Untitled (Monument)

20. February – 19. April 1992
Jubilee Gardens, London SE1

Originally commemorating the formal end of fighting in the First World War (on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918) the Cenotaph in Whitehall encompassed the remembrance of the dead from subsequent wars.

The Cenotaph, designed by Lutyens and completed in 1920, was a stepped and canted obelisk with minimal ornamentation, whose largest angled planes, if projected vertically, would meet at a single point exactly one mile above the base.

Juan Muñoz said of the Cenotaph, "It is one of the most outstanding pieces of modern geometry I can think of.
It hasn't been damaged by the passage of time”.
On the opposite side of the Thames, between de
South Bank arts complex and County Hall in the
Jubilee Gardens, Muñoz built a sculpture, 4.5 metres high, of granite slabs, with three bronze flagpoles
and three bronze flags. Muñoz contributed with this "sculpture designed as a monument", a monument to nothing, to the exhibition Doubletake, which explored
the theme of collective memory through significant
bodies of work. The exhibition Doubletake was organised by the Hayward Gallery, and Juan Muñoz’s work was commissioned and realised by Artangel.