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Exhibitions
Julio González
Gran maternidad, 1934
Tate
Foto: Tate
Pablo Picasso
Figura: proyecto para un monumento a Guillaume Apollinaire, París, otoño de 1928
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso. VEGAP, Madrid, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Adrien Didierjean
SEP.23.2022 – JAN.08.2023, MAD
Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture
The exhibition Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture aims to review the collaboration between these two artists during the period 1928-1932, when Picasso required the technical help of his friend Julio González to develop the project for a funerary monument to Guillaume Apollinaire.
Scandale, 1947
Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, legado de Ilse Bing Wolff
© Estate of Ilse Bing / Victoria and Albert Museum, London
SEP.23.2022 – JAN.08.2023, MAD
Ilse Bing
Ilse Bing’s photographic output spans the central decades of the 20th century and reflects the principal artistic and cultural concerns of that period through a particularly distinctive gaze and approach in which modernism and formal innovation are accompanied by a humanist inclination and an active social conscience. Furthermore, Bing is another remarkable example of a generation of great women photographers: figures such as Berenice Abbot, Nora Dumas and Gisèle Freund, who achieved a visibility and renown previously denied to women in the field of photography.
Now divided between a large number of European and American collections, Ilse Bing’s work is presented here for the first time in Spain in an exhibition that encompasses her entire career.
The Edge of Time – Ancient Rome, from the series “Roaming”, 2006
© Courtesy of the artist and the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
OCT.05.2022 – JAN.15.2023, BCN
Carrie Mae Weems
A great turn in the possible
This wide-ranging retrospective of the great multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems (Portland, Oregon, 1953) presented by our photography center in Barcelona (KBr) has been organized in collaboration with the Foto Colectania Foundation, where part of this exhibition is also on display. The exhibition covers Weems’ entire career (since the early 1980s) in a montage that combines a chronological and conceptual approach.
Series The Holy Innocents, 2019
© Guillermo Fernández
OCT.05.2022 – JAN.15.2023, BCN
KBr Flama 22
Fundación MAPFRE KBr’s annual appointment with emerging creation and the next generation of photographers who are embarking on their professional careers after having been trained in Barcelona is back. This year the exhibition will host the projects of Nanouch Congost (Girona, 1999), Guillermo Fernández (Granada, 1991), Jordi Miquel Riera (Girona, 1977) and Sílvia Parés (Vic, 1997), selected after a viewing process involving professionals in the sector.
Travelling exhibitions
Judith Joy Ross
Untitled, Eurana Park, Weatherly, Pensilvania, 1982
© Judith Joy Ross, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Judith Joy Ross
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Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Personal impulse. Portraiture. Searching for answers.
It took American photographer Judith Joy Ross some time to realise that photography helped her to make the world in which she lived more comprehensible. From that moment on, she has continued to use the medium to try to answer existential questions.
Since the 1980s, Judith Joy Ross has focused her work primarily on the genre of portraiture. Her images have the ability to unite the past, present and future of the individuals who pose in front of her camera. She is not a studio portraitist, nor does she go out into the street to capture a particular subject; instead, she works according to themes, which she calls “occasions”, and in each shot she takes, a kind of recognition is established between herself and the subject, even if this understanding lasts just for an instant, the time it takes to snap the photo.
Lee Friedlander
New York City, 1963
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York
Lee Friedlander
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Antiguo Instituto Jovellanos, Gijón
Documentalist. Social. Ironic.
Lee Friedlander has been a photographer almost since he was a teenager and throughout his long career he has produced a wide range of work. His images primarily record what he himself called, in the 1960s, the “American social landscape”.
This exhibition reveals a very prolific, curious artist who is also passionate about music and books, and who is still active today. His work brings together portraits, self-portraits, family photographs, shots of nature or cityscapes, often in series, which he assembles by thematic and stylistic associations developed over a number of years.
Jorge Ribalta
CCIB, plaza de Willy Brandt 11-14, 15 June 2011
From the series "Futurismo" (Futurism)
© Jorge Ribalta, VEGAP, 2021
Jorge Ribalta
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Museo de la Universidad de Navarra
Documentalist. Illusionist. Critic.
Jorge Ribalta is a curator, art critic and photographer, activities that he has been combining since the beginning of his career in the 1980s. In 2005, his work underwent a radical change that divided it into two opposing periods, at least in terms of basic concepts. During the first of these, his work focused on poetically exploring the constructed naturalism of photography, while in the second he redirected his projects towards reinventing the documentary.
Ribalta’s images ‒shot mainly in black and white using analog film‒ are the fruit of rigorous and nuanced observation. Through his work, the artist takes a journey through the changing landscapes of the late capitalism of our time.
This exhibition shows the passage from illusionist staged photography, which began in 1987, to his arrival at documentary photography, which he continues to pursue today.
This exhibition is being co-produced by Fundación MAPFRE and the Museo Universidad de Navarra.
Carlos Pérez Siquier
Marbella, 1974
© Pérez Siquier, VEGAP, Madrid, 2022
Carlos Pérez Siquier
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A sense of humor. Black and white. Color.
One of the most outstanding characteristics of the work of Pérez Siquier, a seminal figure in Spanish photography, is that, from the beginning of his career in the 1950s, he maintained his status as a peripheral artist, since he lived all his life in his native Almería. From there, over a period of more than sixty years, Pérez Siquier created a photographic corpus that penetrates, tangentially but also in a deep and incisive way, into the debates of that time. His series are populated by the periphery of society, the visual alterations arising out of Franco-era developmentalism, the cultural shock produced by the massive influx of foreign tourists to Spain, and the penetrative gaze of a different way of seeing things.
This exhibition, which aims to boost the international recognition of a figure who won the Spanish National Photography Prize in 2003, covers his most important series. The Pérez Siquier exhibition is FFF’s contribution to Spain, their Guest of Honor at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair and it is being co-organized by Fundación MAPFRE and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) in collaboration with FFF.
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