Travelling exhibitions

08.APR.2021 – 30.JUL.2021

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”.

01.APR.2021 – 09.AUG.2021

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.

JAN.22.2021 – APR.18.2021

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.

OCT.13.2020 – JAN.03.2021

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.

JUN.26.2020 – SEP.27.2020

Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto de Gijón (Asturias)

Dublin. Music. Urban culture.

After its passage through Madrid, this exhibition arrives in Gijón with its impressive large-format black-and-white and color images. The streets of his neighborhood in Dublin, his permanent passion for music, his interest in cultural movements and changes in social policies; the whole universe of Eamonn Doyle converges in his photographs. His work conveys moments of stillness and frenetic energy, of solitude and community.

This exhibition contains a selection of each of Doyle’s photographic series which, when viewed as a whole, reveal their interconnected dynamics and concerns, from the floating world of Dublin to the spectral world of K.

In this video of Eamonn Doyle and Niall Sweeney you will be able to see the whole assembly process of the exhibition.

MAY.11.2020 – SEP.06.2020

SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (Germany)

Modernity. Documentary photography. Experimentation.

In every facet of her work, as a portraitist, documentary filmmaker and pioneer of scientific photography, Berenice Abbott broke the mold. And that includes her personal life, too. With her camera in hand she lived for photography, her great passion, transcending the limitations of being a woman at that time.

Her photographs are a reflection of her deep technical intelligence. And modernity, inherent in her personality, is present in her unusual and daring images.

After a period of time at the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, the exhibition Berenice Abbott: Portrait of Modernity arrives in Cologne to offer the photographer’s particular vision of the city of Paris and the transformation of New York in the central years of the 20^th century.

OCT.21.2019 – FEB.09.2020

Centre Cultural Terrassa, Barcelona

The Disasters of War. Prints. The Peninsular War.

The violence witnessed by Francisco de Goya during The Peninsular War (1808-1814) led the artist to take up drawing, sketching and prints once again. This type of work, of a private nature, is an effective way for him to express the pain and anguish he feels in the face of the events of war and their effect on the civilian population. Although he never published them during his lifetime, we have access to a complete bound edition which he gave to his friend Ceán Bermúdez before he left for Bordeaux in 1824. The handwritten title of this album reads as follows: “Fatal consequences of Spain’s bloody war with Bonaparte, and other emphatic caprices, in 85 prints. Invented, drawn and printed by the original painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. In Madrid”. The exact chronological timeline of the execution of the series is unknown, but it is usually dated from between 1810, the date which appears on three of the prints and 1815.

The Disasters of War are comprised of 80 titled plates and several etchings with some in drypoint and gouache, printed in black ink. The set of prints are divided into three groups: the first two groups contain the “disasters of war” themselves, while the third, the “emphatic caprices”, of a more allegorical nature, are understood to be a political reflection on the absolutist government of Ferdinand VII following the end of the war and the withdrawal of the French troops.

OCT.14.2019 – JAN.31.2020

Jeu de Paume, París

Closeness. Connection. Exchange.

Hujar was a portrait photographer. This photographer sought to convey the exchange between the artist and the sitter in his pictures by establishing a direct relationship that would allow him to delve into the true nature of the person he wished to immortalize. His portraits reflect an atmosphere of intimacy with the sitter due to his calm and intimate method of taking photographs.

He was inextricably linked to New York City both personally and professionally. He played a part in the counter-cultural movements of the 1970s and depicted the social and cultural atmosphere of the city. Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag and William S. Burroughs were some of the personalities in the underground scene that Hujar photographed.

Featuring over 150 works, this exhibition takes us on a journey through his professional career and adheres to this artist’s particular preference for systematically choosing to present his photographs in energetic, surprising and sometimes disconcerting juxtapositions.

OCT.11.2019 – DIC.13.2019

Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, Palmas de Gran Canaria

Everyday life, quality, mastery.

The cutting-edge drawings of the Catalan artists Joan Junyer and Joan Sandalinas, which belong to our collections, have landed in Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme in the Canary Islands.

Sandalinas and Junyer share more than just a name, an era and a birthplace. They both belong to a group of artists who, despite their high-quality, skilled work, and for varying reasons, are continually passed over and then revisited by the critics. Both artists are fundamental to our understanding of the move towards modernity of the Spanish artists during the 1920s and 1930s.

This exhibition presents us with daily scenes, ordinary people, fishermen from Barceloneta, Telefónica workers and peasant farmers from Mallorca, along with other topics favored by these two painters. With many locations in common, Junyer and Sandalinas also display major differences. Sandalinas surprises us with a very personal assimilation of the most revolutionary European trends, while Junyer focused on ballet stages, a subject which interested him towards the end of the 1930s.

The exhibition which has now docked in the Canary Islands rediscovers the drawings of both artists who form part of our collection of works on paper.