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Exhibitions
Leonora Carrington
Arts, 110, 1944
Collection of Stanley and Pearl Goodman NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, USA
© Estate of Leonora Carrington / VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
FEB.11.2023 – MAY.07.2023, MAD
Leonora Carrington
Revelation
Leonora Carrington. Revelation is the first retrospective to be devoted to the artist in Spain. A versatile and eclectic creator continually in search of new forms of expression, Carrington configured a unique aesthetic and conceptual universe that makes her an essential figure for an analysis of 20th-century art in its totality.
Ahead of her time with regard to ecology and women’s rights, Leonora Carrington devised a language through which she evoked “a fascinating world of magic rituals in which nothing is what it seems and in which the most incredible transformations take place”, in the words of Tere Arcq, co-curator of the exhibition with the art historian Carlos Martín and Stefan van Raay, director of the Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
Facundo de Zuviría
Peinados Permanentes Rosita, Monserrat, 1985
Private collection, Paris. © Facundo de Zuviría
FEB.11.2023 – MAY.07.2023, MAD
Facundo de Zuviría
Images of Buenos Aires
Facundo de Zuviría. Images of Buenos Aires is the first retrospective in Spain to be devoted to this Argentinian artist, one of the most important names in photography today. The exhibition reflects his “obsession”, to use the term that he has himself employed on various occasions, with his native city.
Over the past forty years Facundo de Zuviría (born Buenos Aires, 1954) has tirelessly photographed the city’s shop fronts and façades, signs, advertisements and pedestrians, giving rise to a sequence of many images that are in fact just one: a beautiful and nostalgic testimony to time passing through a great city and its inhabitants.
The exhibition features nearly 200 black and white and colour photographs taken between 1982 and 2022.
Ilse Bing
Scandale, 1947
Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, legado de Ilse Bing Wolff
© Estate of Ilse Bing / Victoria and Albert Museum, London
FEB.16.2023 – MAY.14.2023, BCN
Ilse Bing
The lengthy life and career of Ilse Bing (1899-1998) provides an interesting reflection of the 20th century’s principal cultural trends and historical events. In Bing’s photographs the aesthetic ideas of the century’s succeeding artistic styles and movements come together through a gaze that is unique in its humanistic nature and its intense but subtly expressed social conscience.
Together with other significant figures such as Nora Dumas, Gisèle Freund and Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing was among was the female photographers who achieved a reputation and recognition in the field that had previously been denied to women.
Anastasia Samoylova
Green Umbrella, Zurich 2022
© Anastasia Samoylova
FEB.16.2023 – MAY.14.2023, BCN
Anastasia Samoylova
Image Cities
The Image Cities project by Russian-American photographer Anastasia Samoylova was the winning entry in the first edition of the KBr Photo Award, launched by Fundación MAPFRE in 2021. The project is a unique visual study of the integration between photographic images and the urban environment, usually constructed by superimposing collages. The project, which began in Moscow and New York in 2021, has been extended to other cities including Amsterdam, Paris, London, Brussels, Tokyo, Madrid and Barcelona thanks to the KBr Photo Award.
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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