Do you like photography? If so, during the month of January you will be able to enjoy numerous exhibitions, including the ones that we propose today. Photography exhibitions, some, that will end soon but that you still have time to see in cities like Madrid, Barcelona or Avilés, Among others.
Paolo Gasparini
Until January 16 at the KBr Fundación Mapfre Photography Center, Barcelona
Gasparini is a vindictive photographer who is especially critical of consumer society and how advertising seduces or manipulates us. Many of his works take place in South America and he exceptionally portrays its tensions and contradictions. The exhibition shows a large part of his projects and focuses on photography and his photobooks. His 60 years of career are presented as if they were a travel itinerary and in it stereotypes are distorted and they redefine concepts such as wealth and poverty.
Three Magnum women: Eve Arnold, Inge Morath and Cristina García Rodero
Until January 30 at the Niemeyer Center, Avilés
Eve Arnold and Inge Morath were the first two full female members of the prestigious Magnum agency. For her part, Cristina García Rodero is the only person of Spanish nationality who is a member of the agency. This select recognition (only 99 photographers are full members of the agency and among them there are only 11 women) reflects the relevance of their jobs as photojournalists, which has also allowed them to exhibit in important museums and galleries and be one of the most influential professionals in the history of photography.
Exhibition collects a total of 60 works. On the one hand, an anthology by Eve Arnold and Inge Morath, in which one can find, for example, portraits of personalities such as Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X, Paul Newman, Margaret Thatcher or Yves St. Laurent. On the other hand, a selection of images made by García Rodero, who also participated in the opening of the exhibition, is presented.
FAME. Autopoiesis
Until February 27 at the Municipal Heritage Museum, Malaga
The Colectivo de Fotografas Artistas Malagueñas (FAMA) arises from the virtual curatorial proposal put forward by Elena Pedrosa on the website colectivofama.com, with the intention of making visible projects of contemporary art photography.
The 26 photographers that currently make up the group, born or based in Malaga, work from mutual support, horizontality and collective creation in cooperative projects that give rise to synergies, visibility and promotion thanks to the commitment and dedication that each participant can contribute, also posing rich opportunities for joint creation that have led to the consolidation of common ties.
The works that make up the Autopoeisis exhibition speak of resilience, community or family, self-improvement and empowerment, self-protection and self-knowledge, or confusion and personal search, each from their individual experience, distinguishable from any other, but symbiotic at the same time. same time with the environment and the like, in their private and intimate language.
Michael Schmidt. Photographs 1965-2014
Until February 28 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Five decades of photographic production define Michael Schmidt as one of the great figures of the postwar german photography. His snapshots describe the society of his time with mainly urban images and their inhabitants. Around 350 portraits, landscapes, still lifes and urban views are exhibited.
His work has always been characterized by his artistic vision. He approached his photographic series taking into account the medium in which they were to be presented. In this way, he configured them together as installations for the exhibition space or in careful photobooks.
Flamenco tail. The endless journey
Until April 24 at the Teatro Español - Sala Andrea D'Odorico, Madrid
It is a personal journey through strength and naturalness of flamenco art Through a selection of 70 photographs of the more than 2.000 images that make up the Colita Photography Archive. The exhibition includes great moments from artists such as Antonio Gades, La Chunga, Paco de Lucía, Lola Flores, Enrique Morente or Miguel Poveda, among many others.
Colita transmits authenticity in his photographs, strength and spontaneity that from the beginning attracted him to flamenco. The journey of this exhibition began many years ago, as he writes in his book “Luces y sombra del Flamenco”: “I had never seen or felt anything like it in my life. Something like a daze and an emotion to tears… From that moment, you embark on a journey that has no end ”.
Carlos Pérez Siquier. Photography room
Until June 19 at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
Carlos Pérez Siquier (1930-2021) was one of the great renovators of the Spanish postwar photography. He and José María Artero (1921-1991) are responsible for the creation of the modest newsletter Afal –acronym of the Almeria Photographic Association–, which soon distinguished itself by its pugnacious opposition to the late-pictorialist ruling party and by its determined commitment to the social reality of the Spain of the time. Afal soon transcended the geographical limits of Almería to become the most influential and innovative photographic publication published in the depressed Spanish cultural scene of those years.
Through more than half a century of dedication, Pérez Siquier came to create a monumental work that reflects the aesthetic and social evolution of the country, the same one that his own photography experienced. Between 1957 and the end of his life, Pérez Siquier could not resist the seduction of color, that allowed him to capture the magical air of his land and the exultant joy that is reflected in the light of the Mediterranean, the same in which he opened his eyes. Most of the photographs on display were taken in La Chanca, ten years after his first foray into the neighborhood, to which he did not stop returning from the long-ago days of his first images.
Are you going to see or have you already seen any of these photography exhibitions?