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Exhibitions
Untitled, Eurana Park, Weatherly, Pensilvania, 1982
© Judith Joy Ross, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
SEP.24.2021 – JAN.09.2022, MAD
Judith Joy Ross
Fundación MAPFRE presents the most comprehensive retrospective of Judith Joy Ross (Pennsylvania, 1946) to date, which explores the body of work that the artist has been developing over the last forty years. During her career, the artist has principally focused on the genre of portraiture, intent on seeing the complexity of who her subjects are rather than a projection of who they might otherwise be.
Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta [Still life], 1941
Istituzione Bologna Musei | Museo Morandi
© Giorgio Morandi, VEGAP, Madrid, 2021
SEP.24.2021 – JAN.09.2022, MAD
Morandi. Infinite Resonance
A rejection of prominence in favor of purity of form, a lack of interest in fashions and styles, the construction of a solitary, elusive character confined to his home-studio in Bologna… none of these have prevented Giorgio Morandi from being regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, with the ability to approach works of art with the seriousness and discipline of the Old Masters. A craftsman of painting and engraving, he was also blessed with the classic sensitivity to understand the difficulties of creation.
Gunnlöð Jóna Rúnarsdóttir
Obscure Presence series, 2018-2020
© Gunnlöð Jóna Rúnarsdóttir
SEP.30.2021 – JAN.16.2022, BCN
KBr Flama 21
The KBr Flama project came about with the aim of supporting new creation and new generations of photographers embarking on their professional careers after having trained at Barcelona’s photography schools. The Kbr Flama 21 exhibition launches this initiative with four young photographers – Laura Gálvez-Rhein (Frankfurt am Main, 1998), Blanca Munt (Barcelona, 1997), Gael del Río (Barcelona, 1990) and Gunnlöð Jóna Rúnarsdóttir (Reykjavik, 1992) – whose work was selected from a viewing by professional photographers.
Paolo Gasparini
Electoral Campaign, Avenida Urdaneta, Caracas, 1968
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Paolo Gasparini
SEP.30.2021 – JAN.16.2022, BCN
Paolo Gasparini
Field of Images
The exhibition Paolo Gasparini. Field of Images provides a comprehensive overview of the artist’s career, focusing not only on his photography but also on another of his main expressive supports, the photobook, a crucial narrative mechanism for defining the history of photography in Latin America. His six decades as a photographer offer a broad itinerary through several mutating cityscapes: Caracas, Havana, São Paulo, and Mexico City, not forgetting feedback from Munich, Paris and London.
Travelling exhibitions
Paul Strand
Wall Street, New York, 1915
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive
PAUL STRAND. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
– 30
Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, Las Palmas
Commitment. Documentarism. Innovation.
Paul Strand is one of the fundamental creators of the photography history. From the initial images he took in New York in the 1910s to the last ones he took in his garden in Orgeval at the end of his life, along with those he took during his trips to Mexico, New England, France, Italy, the Hebrides Islands or Ghana, his work and his projects are today considered a reference.
This exhibition is articulated around the major themes that preoccupied Strand throughout his life (geometries, landscapes, portraits and countries) through which the keys to the enormous importance and value of his work are made clear. In the words of Juan Naranjo, gallery owner and editor, “Strand went beyond the mere revelation of the formal beauty of the world: he was a committed artist who explored other paths of documentalism, in which he balanced form and content. He also projected his ethical and social commitment in his photographs. Throughout his life he continued to interact with important creators and maintained his connection with the most innovative currents of thought and with the new photographic theories. His extensive and interesting works of art made him one of the most important photographers of the 20th century”.
Paz Errázuriz
Mago Karman, Santiago, from the series The Circus, 1988
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Paz Errázuriz, courtesy of the artist
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
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Art Museum Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá
Curiosity. Transgression. Nonconformism.
Since she began her photography career in the 1960s, in the midst of the Pinochet dictatorship, Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz has shown in her work a great curiosity for the human condition and for the underpriviledged of society: the mentally ill, the homeless, circus performers, transsexuals, prostitutes and indigenous natives. n her images of brothels, asylums, psychiatric hospitals, she captures the singularity of human behavior, breaking taboos.
This exhibition, composed of 171 photographies and 2 videos, aims to show the key series that make up the works of this artist, in which portraits become the best tool to showcase the most decadent and marginal face of Chilean society. The use of black and white intensifies the message of condemnation.
Bebe, Savignac de Miremont, 2011
Gelatin silver prints, contact
© Nicholas Nixon.
Fundación MAPFRE Collections.
NICHOLAS NIXON
– APR.
Tomie Ohtake Institute, Sao Paulo
Portraits. Feelings. Humanity.
Nicholas Nixon holds a unique and outstanding place in the history of photography in recent decades. His work, carried out with a very refined technique and a careful composition, takes us into his everyday reality. His closeness and humanity make the viewer participate and identify with the emotions that underlie his images.
Nixon has always worked on series in which he mentions fundamental aspects of human life, and one of them is the passing of time. Some of his works, such as The Brown Sisters or his family portraits can be found throughout his entire career. The way he works requires a great deal of time: the photographer establishes a relationship with the person being photographed generating an intimacy and trust that is reflected in his images.
Although his career is distinguished by and dedicated to portraits, Nixon also portrays spaces and objects, showing us themes he was attracted to with extraordinary clarity.
Paz Errázuriz
Mago Karman, Santiago, from the series The Circus, 1988
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Paz Errázuriz, courtesy of the artist
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
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Moreira Salles Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Daring, committed and a defender of human rights..
The work of Paz Errázuriz (Santiago de Chile, 1944) is very unconventional; her way of exploring reality confronts us with difficult, uncomfortable images that make no concessions to the viewer.
The nonconformist view of this Chilean photographer turns her photographs into a tool for the defense of human rights, those excluded by the Chilean regime and by society. Her work features the mentally ill, the homeless, circus performers, transsexuals, prostitutes and indigenous people.
This exhibition, composed mainly of works from Fundación MAPFRE’s collections, aims to show the key series that make up the artist’s work, in which portraits become the best tool to showcase the most decadent and marginal face of Chilean society and the use of black and white intensifies the message of complaint.
In this video of Maria Clara Villas you will be able to see the whole assembly process of the exhibition.
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