Just as a few weeks ago we encouraged you to visit some of the many painting exhibitions Throughout our country, today we do the same with photography exhibitions. More ephemeral than the previous ones, they are a great way to peek into other realities. We recommend only a few that you can currently see in Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, San Sebastian or Avilés, among other places.
Aitor Ortiz. Gaudí. Intimate impressions
Where: Until February 16, 2020 in Tabakalera. International Center of Culture. Donostia-San Sebastian
The exhibition Aitor Ortiz. Gaudí. Intimate Impressions is composed of a set of 120 images taken of various buildings designed by the Catalan architect. Aitor Ortiz's camera works as a revealing eye of what, being in sight, however, remains invisible. Specialized in photographing complex and large architectural structures of today, this is Ortiz's first foray into the terrain of a historical architect with a unique and powerful visual power.
Carlos Perez Siquier
Where: From February 13 to May 17, 2020 at the Mapfre Barcelona Foundation. Garriga i Nogués House.
Fundación MAPFRE presents an exhibition dedicated to Carlos Pérez Siquier, a key figure in the consolidation of modern photography both nationally and internationally. The exhibition is presented as a journey through its most notable series, Made between 1957 and 2018, with an important contribution of unpublished images and in order to promote the international recognition of the Almeria artist.
Through his photographic series run the social periphery, the visual alterations arising from the so-called second Franco regime, the cultural shock produced by the massive arrival of foreign tourism to Spain and the penetration of a new visual, colorful and sensual culture.
Colita Why yes!
Where: Until March 1, 2020 at the Andalusian Center of Photography (CAF), Almería.
Colita Because yes! is a anthological exhibition by the Catalan photographer Isabel Steva Hernández, better known as Colita. The exhibition consists of around a hundred photographs, eight videos about journalistic reports by the Catalan author, an audiovisual with an interview with Colita and documentary material covering her entire career professional, from the 60s to the present.
David Goldblatt. on the mines
Where: Until April 12, 2020 at the Art and Nature Center. Beulas Foundation, Huesca.
The exhibition On the Mines documents the structures, work systems and living conditions of the mines gold (and sometimes platinum) from South Africa. The images that make up the exhibition are the work of David Goldblatt. Goldblatt's photographs, whether of people, places, or buildings, are lovingly and beautifully composed, but they never exhibit a constructed or self-conscious virtuosity. On the Mines is also a dignified and moving portrait of the people who lived and worked in the mines: miners, traders, administrators or executives. In fact, like all of Goldblatt's work, it operates simultaneously on multiple levels such as documentation, protest, cultural history, or portraiture.
Mad about hollywood
Where: Until March 7, 2020 at the Alcobendas Art Center, Madrid.
The exhibition witnesses the passage of american movie stars like Ava Gardner, Orson Welles, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn or Charlton Heston, in Madrid during the 50s and 60s of the last century. His work in the filming was combined with the enjoyment of Madrid life in bars, nightclubs, flamenco tablaos or museums, something that can be traced through the 148 photographs, magazines and audiovisual pieces that make up the sample.
Not a retrospective
Where: Until March 29, 2020 at the Niemeyer Center, Avilés.
The Niemeyer Center presents the great solo exhibition of the photographer Nadia Lee Cohen, Acclaimed by the public and international critics since at the age of 22 she was included in the Taylor Wessing Photography Prize and exhibited her work at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Nadia Lee Cohen (United Kingdom, 1990) is an English photographer, filmmaker and self-portrait artist living in Los Angeles (USA). This is the city that most inspires him since his first trip to the United States in 2014, and a consequence of his fascination with La Americana and the suburb, and the conformist life in those residential areas. Environments that convey the idea of perfection and, therefore, ideal for direct puncture and transgression. Nadia tells stories that take place both inside those houses in which the female protagonists fight that suffocating conformity with sexual escapism, and outside, where the signs and lights of the big consumer brands that dominate the scenes together with winks the pop world is fed by the cultural references of the narrative.
Palmira Puig and Marcel Giró. Saudades of São Paulo
Where: Until May 3, 2020 at the Palau Solterra Museum of Contemporary Photography, Torroella de Montgri, Girona.
The Palau Solterra Museum presents the Palmira Puig i Marcel Giró exhibition. Saudades de São Paulo, a recognition of the photographic work of this couple. The sample brings together some sixty works by these two photographers exiled in Brazil who actively participated in the Brazilian photographic avant-garde.
Some of the photographs in this collection have recently become part of international collections, such as MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York), MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), Itaú Cultural (São Paulo) or MNAC (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona), in addition to important private collections .
Richard Learoy
Where: From February 19 to May 24, 2020 at Fundación Mapfre - Sala Bárbara de Braganza, Madrid.
The Richard Learoyd exhibition features 51 works from major public and private collections and covers the last ten years of the British photographer's production. Their images they have a captivating uniqueness. His photographs are the result of a handmade process with a camera obscura built by himself. His work, which has its roots in the past, has multiple references to the history of painting, both in terms of subject matter and technique.
Which of these photography exhibitions catches your eye the most? Do you know the work of any of the authors?