XIX International Festival of Photography and Visual

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XIX International Festival
of Photography
and Visual Arts
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PHotoEspaña, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, set out to become a Festival
generated by popular demand in 1998, and today it has earned its place as one of the most relevant
visual arts events in the world.
PHotoEspaña is one of the central international forums for photography. Each year the Festival attracts more than six hundred thousand people and receives acclaim from prestigious critics, making
it the most popular cultural event in Spain. The Festival is an exceptional occasion for discovering
images, videos and installations created by outstanding national and international photographers and
visual artists.
Since the first edition of the Festival, more than 1.000 exhibitions have been hosted in the city’s main
museums, art centres and galleries. The shows are complemented by pedagogic and professional
programs designed for diverse audiences.
After covering photography in Spain as well as Latin-American photography, PHotoEspaña is now –in
its nineteenth year– aiming to provide a panoramic view of photography on the European continent.
The artistic programme for the Festival will include exhibitions commissioned from a range of specialists which seek to analyse the very concept of Europe; what it is, what it has been and how the
continent as a whole is configured in social, geographic, political, economic or creative terms.
The 19th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts PHotoEspaña will take place between
the 1st of June and the 28th of August 2016.
INDEX
5 Exhibitions List
OFFICIAL SECTION
8Madrid
35 Alcalá de Henares
36 Alcobendas
43 Segovia
4 4 Zaragoza
Castilla-La Mancha
47 Albacete
48 Ciudad Real
49 Cuenca
50 Guadalajara
51 Toledo
52 Europe
INVITED VENUES
64 Madrid
OFF FESTIVAL
67 Madrid
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES
74 Discoveries PHE week
Porfolio Reviews and Seminars
74 Discoveries Week PHE. Campus PHE: The
creative image. With Michel Atavar
75 Discoveries week PHE
75 Campus PHE: Self Publish, Be happy. With
Bruno Ceschel
75 Porfolio Review in Murcia
76 An Unexpected Mosaic. Singularities of
European Photography. PHE Encounters
76 Trasatlántica PHE
77 PIC.A PHotoEspaña International Centre
Alcobendas
77 PHotoEspaña Masters: Theory and artistic
projects
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
79 PHotoEspaña – Community of Madrid Forum
79 From the selfie to the self-portrait. Long live
the self-portrait!
80 PHotoEspaña / Fundación Canal Saturdays
Workshops
80 Samsung Galaxy S7 Night PHotoMarathon
81 In the evening. Open-air projections by
PHotoEspaña – Fundación Banco Sabadell
81 Photography in Europe. In and Out
82 Competition Curators in Adobe Stock
82 The Ribera Spirit
83 PHotoBook Week
83 PhotoWalk Alcalá de Henares
84 PHotoWalk Lanzarote
86 PHE16 Official Awards
87 Credits
GRANDES PATROCINADORES
PATROCINADORES INSTITUCIONALES
GOBIERNO
DE ESPAÑA
MINISTERIO
DE EDUCACIÓN, CULTURA
Y DEPORTE
SECRETARÍA
DE ESTADO
DE CULTURA
GOBIERNO
DE ESPAÑA
COLABORADOR PRINCIPAL
ENTIDADES PATROCINADORAS
COLABORADORES ASOCIADOS
SEDES
INSTITUCIONES INTERNACIONALES
GOBIERNO
DE ESPAÑA
MINISTERIO
DE ECONOMÍA
Y COMPETITIVIDAD
FERNÁN GÓMEZ
PANTONE 166C
PANTONE 166C
KONINKRIJK BELGIË
COOL GRAY 8C
COOL GRAY 8C
Federale Overheidsdienst
Buitenlandse Zaken,
Buitenlandse Handel en
Ontwikkelingssamenwerking
GOBIERNO
DE ESPAÑA
ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE
Service public fédéral
Affaires étrangères,
Commerce extérieur et
Coopération au Développement
MINISTERIO
DE FOMENTO
ENTIDADES AMIGAS Y PROVEEDORES
MEDIOS ASOCIADOS
Aesthetica
CANAL180.PT
LOGOTIPO PRINCIPAL + WEB (fondo blanco)
MINISTERIO
DE FOMENTO
EXHIBITIONS LIST
OFFICIAL SECTION
OTHER CITIES
OFFICIAL SECTION
MADRID
BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA
The Best Photography Books of the Year
CASA DE AMÉRICA
Intimate cartographies, an approach to interpersonal
relationships
CASA DE AMÉRICA
José A. Figueroa. Und Jetzt? ( What now?)
CENTROCENTRO CIBELES
Portrait Photography in Europe since 1990
CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA GOYA
Louise Dahl-Wolfe. A Style of her own
CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA MINERVA
Federico Clavarino. The Castle
CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA PICASSO
Transitions. Ten years that transformed Europe.
Nicolas Motelay Collection
COMUNIDAD DE MADRID / SALA CANAL ISABEL II
Paco Gómez Archive. The poetic instant and the
architectural image
CENTRO CULTURAL CONDE DUQUE/ SALA SUR
To the gates of Paradise! Photographic essay on the
migrant, the nomad, the exile, the refugee and the
stateless...
ESPACIO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA
In the Footsteps of Inge Morath. Gazes on the Danube
FERNÁN GÓMEZ. CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA VILLA
Juana Biarnés. Against the current
MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO
Copied by the Sun. The Talbotype Illustrations of The
Annals of the Artists of Spain, William Stirling Maxwell
(1848)
MUSEO NACIONAL DEL ROMANTICISMO
Miroslav Tichý or the Celebration of the Photographic
Process
MUSEO NACIONAL DEL TRAJE. CIPE
Joséphine Douet. Coutures
REAL ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN
FERNANDO - CALCOGRAFÍA NACIONAL
Māris Maskalāns. Nagļi. LV- 4631
REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO – CSIC
Bernard Plossu. The Inmobile Hour, a Mediterranean
metaphysics
REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO – CSIC
Linarejos Moreno. Tabularia: Science and Imagination
Laboratories
ALCALÁ DE HENARES
CONVENTO DE SANTA MARÍA LA RICA
Jürgen Schadeberg. Visual memory of life.
Retrospective
ALCOBENDAS
BULEVAR SALVADOR ALLENDE
Alberto García-Alix. París, rien de plus (Paris, nothing
else)
CENTRO CULTURAL ANABEL SEGURA
Boundaries. Máster PHotoEspaña
CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Yannis Karpouzis. The Parallel Crisis
CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Ricardo Cases. Pigeon in the Air
CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Pierre Gonnord. Portrait photographer
TEATRO REAL. ROTONDAS SALA GOYA
Around the World in Twenty Years of Opera
CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Aleix Plademunt. Almost there
SALA ARQUERÍAS. MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO
Modelling for the Camera. Photography of
Architectural Models in Spain, 1925-1970
CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Nicolas Grospierre. All pales before the book
TABACALERA. PROMOCIÓN DEL ARTE - ESTUDIOS
Linarejos Moreno
SEGOVIA
LA CÁRCEL. SEGOVIA CENTRO DE CREACIÓN
Carlos Saura. Spain, Nineteen Fifties
FERNÁN GÓMEZ. CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA VILLA
Cristina de Middel. Muchismo
ZARAGOZA
CENTRO DE HISTORIAS
Daniel Blaufuks. All the Memory in the World, Part One
FUNDACIÓN CANAL
Vivian Maier. Street Photographer
CENTRO DE HISTORIAS: LA CRIPTA
Pat Graham. Instrument
LOEWE GRAN VÍA
Lucia Moholy. A Hundred Years Later
LA LONJA
Chema Conesa. Paper portraits
MUSEO CERRALBO
Shirley Baker. Women, Children and Men who let time
go by
MUSEO ICO
Andrea Robbins / Max Becher. Robbins & Becher.
Displacements
MUSEO LÁZARO GALDIANO
Andrezj Tobis. A-Z. Illustrated Diccionary
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA
Humanism and Subjectivity in the Spanish
Photography of the Fifties and Sixties.. The Case of
Afal
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
ALBACETE
MUSEO DE ALBACETE
Caio Reisewitz. Today’s Apparatuses
CIUDAD REAL
MUSEO DE CIUDAD REAL – CONVENTO DE LA
MERCED
Montserrat Soto. Original Datum 5. Picture Gallery
CUENCA
MUSEO DE CUENCA
Jordi Bernadó. The Footprints of Don Quixote
GUADALEJARA
MUSEO DE GUADALAJARA
Ferdinando Scianna. The City and its People
TOLEDO
MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ
John Davies. Landscapes of La Mancha
INVITED VENUES
MADRID
CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ / ACADÉMIE DE FRANCE À
MADRID
Photographers of the Casa de Velázquez 2016
FNAC CALLAO
Christian Rodríguez
HOTEL IBEROSTAR LAS LETRAS GRAN VÍA
Iberian Gazes. La Fábrica Collection
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DE CULTURA
Gabriele Basilico
MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES
Juan del Junco
REAL SOCIEDAD FOTOGRÁFICA
The Dolcets’ Triple Gaze
OFFICIAL SECTION
EUROPE
BRATISLAVA
CENTRAL EUROPEAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Vasil Stanko. Photographs
CHALON SUR SAÔNE
MUSÉE NICÉPHORE-NIÉPCE
The expert eye. Contemporary photography
DUBLIN
PHOTOIRELAND
Flâneur by Dublin
ISTAMBUL
ISTAMBUL MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
Habitat
MADRID
OFF FESTIVAL
6MAS1
Between World and Toy. Patricia Gómez y María Jesús
González / Nieves Mingueza / Rebecca Wilton
ASPA CONTEMPORÁNEA
Nagore Legarreta. Hysteron
MATERNA Y HERENCIA
Alfonso Zubiaga. Chaos and Emptiness. Spaces of
Survival
BAT ALBERTO CORNEJO
No words
MICHEL SOSKINE INC
Joel-Peter Witkin
BLANCA BERLÍN GALERÍA
Jürgen Schadeberg
MOISES PÉREZ DE ALBÉNIZ
Basurama. Abundancia
BLANCA SOTO
Bigas Luna. A fior di pelle (On the Surface)
MONDO GALERÍA
Virgina Rota. Saudade
CÁMARA OSCURA
Nanna Hänninen. Now is now
ODALYS
Transdiverse [photography, video art and multimedia
art from Venezuela]
CERO
Daniel Mayrit. Seguridad ciudadana
HELSINKI
THE FINNISH MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Alec Soth
ESPACIO VALVERDE
Miguel Rosón Riestra. High Tide
LONDON
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY
Double Take: drawing and photography
FERNANDO PRADILLA
Transversal Photography
MOSCOW
THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS CENTER FOR
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sandro Miller
IVORYPRESS
Chloe Dewe Mathews. Shot at Dawn
PARIS
MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Marcel Gautherot
RIGA
LATVIA NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART
Tamed Nature. Nature Motifs in Fashion from the 18th
Century till Nowadays. Alexandre Vassiliev’s private
couture collection
ROTTERDAM
NEDERLANDS FOTOMUSEUM
Crime Scenes. A hundred years of photographic
evidence
VARSAW
FUNDACJA BĘC ZMIANA
Mikołaj Długosz
MAGDA BELLOTTI
Tete Álvarez. Displacements
FERNÁNDEZ- BRASO
Ouka Leele. Travellers from my Galaxy
FREIJO GALLERY
Mónica Sánchez-Robles. Color of emotions
JORGE ALCOLEA
Abraham Calero. Dignus
JOSE DE LA MANO
Gerardo Vielba. Paris 1962
LA CAJA NEGRA
Adolfo Patiño. Adolfotógrafo. Anonymous painted
photography [Mexico] Life dreamt in colour
LA FABRICA
Cristina de Middel. Antipodesedopitna
LA FIAMBRERA
Juan Pérez-Fajardo. All Access
LUCÍA MENDOZA
Christian Voig. Interior Landscapes
LUIS BURGOS
Cano Erhardt. In Coney Island
OGAMI PRESS
Jesus Labandeira. When it still used to snow
PILAR SIERRA
Linarejos Moreno. Write, write in order to remember.
You only Understand what you destroy
PONCE + ROBLES
Boa Mistura. My root is
SLOWTRACK
Daniel Silvo. Dust
STANDARTE
Javier Marquerie Bueno. Madrid, how well you have
resisted
TIEMPOS MODERNOS
Juan de Sande. Time watches from the shadows
TWIN GALLERY
Valle Galera. It was hidden
UTOPIA PARKWAY
Ignacio Evangelista. After Schengen
Official Section
BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA
The Best Photography Books of the Year
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Dates: 31 may – 4 September
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Biblioteca Nacional de España
A show featuring the most acclaimed photography books of the year
More than 100 publications vying for PHotoEspaña Best Photography Book of the Year.
Over recent years, the photography book has become a fundamental tool for the
diffusion of the photographer’s work. It is an ideal support that formally and aesthetically adapts to the idea of the author, and its creative possibilities are extremely broad.
Publications of this kind have revolutionised the editorial market and are accumulating
prizes and awards on the international scene.
As in previous editions, PHotoEspaña is rewarding this year’s best books in the
discipline. After an open call, to which authors and publishers applied with printed
photography books published between March 2015 and March 2016, a specialised
jury chose almost a hundred titles for this exhibition, which brings together the most
outstanding books due to their concept, design and quality.
From among these, a committee of experts will choose the winners of the PHotoEspaña Best Photography Book of the Year Award in four categories: best National photography publication, International, Outstanding Publishing House and Best
Self-Published Photography Book. Award winners will be announced during the PHotoBook Week on Saturday, June 11 th.
©Jacobo Medrano
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CASA DE AMÉRICA
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
José A. Figueroa
Und Jetzt? ( What now?)
Curator: Cristina Vives
Dates: 27 May - 31 July
Organized by: Casa de América
Photographic testimony of the gradual fall of the Berlin Wall, also symbolizing
the collapse of the system which built it.
Cuban photographer José A. Figueroa snapped this symbol of the Cold War
between May and July, 1990, producing a photo essay about a question that remains
unanswered: Now what?
All the photographs that José A. Figueroa (Cuba, 1946) took in Berlin between May and
June 1990, brought together under the title Und Jetzt?, were taken on the East side
of the wall, a zone that still felt safe according to the migration laws then in force for
Cubans. Almost all the images deal with “the wall”, that protagonist that was breaking
down in front of his eyes as rapidly as it was built. The few people who appear in his
photographs only suggest their states of mind: loneliness, pain, curiosity, fear and
boldness.
Figueroa is moved by a mixture of respect and consternation, and decided not to use
his professional camera—as did hundreds of photographers from all over the world in
those days—but to use a compact tourist camera. He photographed without disturbing
anyone. That was how he registered that historic moment: immersed within a circumstance he felt was also his.
José A. Figueroa. East Berlin. From the series Und Jetz? [What now?], 1990. ©José A. Figueroa, VEGAP,
Madrid, 2016.
Und Jetzt? is an essay made from the viewpoint of a Cuban who set out a question that
still remains to be answered: What now?
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CASA DE AMÉRICA
Intimate cartographies, an approach to
interpersonal relationships
Marcela Bruna / Alicia Caldera / Eduardo Carrera / Colectivo Estética Unisex / Javier
León Cuevas / Carol Espíndola / Vicente González / Giulia Lacoluti / Claudia López /
Antonio Lozano / Xavier Martín / Paco Orbú / Celeste Ortiz / Silvia Varela
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Fabián Goncalves Borrega
Dates: 27 May - 31 July
Organized by: PHotoEspaña and ACCIONA
In collaboration with: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo –
AECID y su Red de Centros Culturales
A selection of portfolios reviewed during Trasatlántica 2015 in Mexico City and
Santiago de Chile
A visual essay guiding the imaginations of viewers, evoking places and emotions.
Cartography and photography are similar: both start out from reality and evoke something which is real. However, this representation is not exact, it is mediatised. Depending on the technique and medium used, the image will be more or less subjective. The
photographic moment of capturing refers to a place, to a person or situation among
people in particular.
Starting from this premise, the photographs included in this visual essay tend to guide
and direct the spectator’s imagination, evoking places and emotions. These evocations
seek that moment that transcends beyond itself, leaving an impression that might last a
lifetime and that at the same time belong to a specific geography.
The photographers represented in this showing are a selection taken from the portfolio
viewings held in November 2015 in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile as a part of the
“Trasatlántica” forum.
Vicente González Mimica. Alicia, 2015 © Vicente González Mimica
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CENTROCENTRO CIBELES
Portrait Photography in Europe since 1990
Tina Barney / Sergey Bratkov / Koos Breukel / Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann /
Anton Corbijn / Christian Courrèges / Luc Delahaye / Paola De Pietri /Rineke Dijkstra /
Denis Darzacq / Alberto García‑Alix / Jitka Hanzlová / Konstantinos Ignatiadis / Stratos
Kalafatis / Nikos Markou / Hellen van Meene / Boris Mikhailov / Jorge Molder / Lucia
Nimcova / Adam Pańczuk / Dita Pepe / Anders Petersen / Jorma Puranen / Thomas
Ruff / Clare Strand / Beat Streuli / Thomas Struth / Juergen Teller / Stephan Vanfleteren /
Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek / Manfred Willmann
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Frits Gierstberg
Dates: 1 June – 28 August
Organized by: CentroCentro Cibeles, Ayuntamiento de Madrid and PHotoEspaña
Co-produced by: Neederlands Photomuseum, Bozar Brussels and Museum of Photography
Thesaloniki
In collaboration with: Embajada de los Países Bajos
A survey of the evolution of European portrait photography during the last 25
years, offering reflections on European identity, culture and history
33 photographers, including Luc Delahaye, Clare Strand, Anders Peterse and
Alberto García-Alix, who have portrayed European diversity, confronting viewers with
reflections of themselves through the observation of assorted countenances.
Portrait photography has a long history when it comes to documenting and creating
identities. The works chosen for this exhibition —which brings together the work of
over thirty current photographers who have portrayed people throughout Europe over
the last twenty-five years— stand out within the European tradition of representing
people.
Using the fall of the Berlin Wall as a starting point —and, in a wider sense, the disappearing of the iron curtain— the aim of the showing is to provoke a confrontation
with oneself through the observation of the different faces: contemplating them is like
putting oneself into a mirror in order to achieve a commitment between closeness and
distance, stimulating empathy with our fellow beings. In this manner, Europe is revealed
to us through the individual person, through photographs, personal stories and private
identities that reflect the European personality, which is so varied and heterogeneous.
Konstantinos Ignatiadis, Francis Bacon, s.d. © Konstantinos
Ignatiadis
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CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA PICASSO
Transitions. Ten years that transformed
Europe. Nicolas Motelay Collection
Bernd & Hilla Becher / Laurenz Berges / Joachim Bröhm / Jean Marc Bustamante / Andrey
Chezhin / Sergey Chilikov / John Davies / Peter Fraser / Paul Graham / Harry Gruyaert / Candida
Höfer / Axel Hütte / Chris Killip / Vladimir Kupriyanov / Jouko Lehtola / Esko Männikkö / Boris
Mikhailov / Martin Parr / Eric Poitevin / Heinrich Riebesehl / Tata Ronkholz / Thomas Ruff / Michael
Schmidt / Wilhelm Schürmann / Graham Smith / Chris Steele-Perkins / Tom Wood
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curators: Alexis Fabry and María Wills
Dates: 31 May – 25 September
Organized by: Círculo de Bellas Artes and PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: British Council
A group show centered on the 1980s, a crucial period in Europe’s
transformation, through the Motelay Collection
Transitions features the work of 28 photographers who produce a panorama filled with
geopolitical and social contradictions and tensions.
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher is elected prime minister of the United Kingdom; in 1989 the
Berlin wall is torn down. Ten years that transformed Europe. Paradoxical years characterised by their openness; by a capacity for innovation translated into the dizzying
development of the banking section —colloquially, the beginning of a dream—; but also
by the increasing of unemployment and the dismantling of the welfare state that was
set up in the post-war period.
In Great Britain, an expression taken from a 1977 song would be heard for a long time:
no future, the echo of which in the academic world took place in the United States
with the article “The End of History”, by Francis Fukuyama, written twelve years later
in order to reveal how the coming of western liberal democracy was the final point in
socio-cultural evolution.
Chris Steele-Perkins. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during the Conservative Party Conference,
1985. © Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum Photos
At the end of all these years of transition, the stand-off between the two superpowers
ended, many frontiers were opened up, the economic crisis entered people’s lives and
the limits between photography and other manifestations disappeared.
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CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA GOYA
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
A Style of her own
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 1 May – 25 September
Organized by: Circulo de Bellas Artes and PHotoEspaña
Co-produced by: La Fábrica y Le Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was a pioneer who revolutionized the world of fashion
photography and marked a turning point in Hollywood portraiture
A unique opportunity to discover the work of this woman, in the first show dedicated to
Louise Dahl-Wolfe outside the United States.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) is one of the major United States photographers. She
modernised the fashion photography and the Hollywood portrait of her time, and her
work had a great impact on the American visual culture. Her images competed with
those of prestigious photographers of the time, such as Edward Steichen, and had an
influence over others, such as Richard Avedon.
The major part of her career took place at the magazine Harper’s Bazaar between 1936
and 1958, years when she worked with an exceptional team that allowed her freedom
and stimulated her, at the same time placing the magazine in a central position among
the publications of the time.
This exhibition —the first solo exhibition of her work outside the United States— covers all the periods of her photographic production: portrait, nude and black and white
and colour fashion photography. Among her list of people portrayed are personalities
from the time such as Vivien Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles and André Malraux,
among many others.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Twins at the Beach, 1955. © Louise DahlWolfe, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Foundation / VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
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CÍRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES / SALA MINERVA
Federico Clavarino
The Castle
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Dates: 1 June – 25 September
Organized by: Círculo de Bellas Artes and PHotoEspaña
This show creates a distinct photographic edifice through a vision of Europe as
an idea or collection of ideas
A reflection on contemporary Europe which examines the processes which has led the
continent to become what it is today.
Besides being a group of nations or a geographical area, Europe can be seen as an
idea or a set of ideas. Its image expresses the history of a considerable part of humanity, from the most ancient times to nowadays. This project seeks to find the marks that
these ideas leave on the surface of the objects and individuals of Europe, on the walls
of its cities, in the showcases of its museums or in the barriers that are raised to define
and defend the limits of its territories.
The Castle is a building constructed out of images divided into four chapters. The first
symbolises the founding myth: the events that lead towards the ordering of contemporary Europe. The second part analyses how power and authority are articulated at
the bases of European societies. The third explores the resulting edifice and shows its
elements of separation and control. Finally, the fourth and last chapter is a prophecy
and convocation at the same time.
Federico Clavarino. Untitled. From the series “The Castle”, 2015
© Federico Clavarino
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COMUNIDAD DE MADRID - SALA CANAL ISABEL II
Paco Gómez Archive
The poetic instant and the architectural
image
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Alberto Martín
Dates: 20 April –24 July
Organized by: Oficina de Cultura y Turismo. Dirección General de Promoción Cultural
In collaboration with: Fundación Foto Colectania
An overview featuring forty years of photography by one of the most important
exponents of contemporary Spanish photography
This show consists of nearly 400 prints, offering a complete survey of the work of the
photographer Paco Gómez.
Francisco Gómez (Pamplona, 1918 - Madrid, 1998), his interest in photography began in
his youth and his development was completely self-taught. In 1956 he entered the Madrid Royal Photographic Society, and throughout his lifetime he participated in a great
many group exhibitions and some solo ones. He created the La Palangana group along
with photographers like Gabriel Cualladó, Gerardo Vielba and Ramón Masats.
This exhibition is made up of about four hundred works —among photographs and
magazines— the selection of which is the result of an enormous work of research on
the part of Alberto Martín. It shows images from his first exhibitions and publications,
the process of forming his work and its later development throughout the nineteen
fifties to nineties. This retrospective also includes an overview of his editorial production and his participation in different projects, his practice of the portrait genre from
different aspects and particularly his collaboration on the magazine Arquitectura.
Francisco Gómez. [Barrio de la Concepción. Madrid], 1966 ©
Archivo Paco Gómez / Fundación Foto Colectania
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CONDE DUQUE. SALA SUR
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
To the gates of Paradise! Photographic essay
on the migrant, the nomad, the exile, the
refugee and the stateless...
Curators: François Cheval and Audrey Hoareau
Dates: 3 June – 14 September
Organized by: Área de Cultura y Deportes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Centro Cultural Conde
Duque and PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Embajada de Suiza
Annie Sterkendries / John Batho / Antoine d’Agata / Peter Knapp / Mathieu Pernot
A stirring dialogue between photographers and migrants that explores the
parallels of the current phenomenon with other migratory movements from the
past
A selection of historic photography, featuring glass plates and magazines, combined
with the work of five contemporary photographers, alerting viewers to a phenomenon
at risk of becoming routine.
Currently on the borders of the European Union there are two groups whose destiny
is connected: migrants and photographers. The former are trying to flee from poverty,
war or repression. The latter persevere in their capacity to provide significant or revealing images.
The photographers participating in this exhibition wish to show a different testimony
and to reconstitute the creating of a “committed” image from the outside. However,
the photographer’s production is necessarily inscribed within a generalised history in
which the accumulation of images has little effect on the European spectator. Nevertheless, it represents a dialogue with several different voices in which the subject
photographed and the spectator participate in a sort of reconstruction. Photography,
once again, encounters the path of social and political experimentation.
The exhibition includes material from other periods, producing a dialogue between the
current phenomenon and other migratory movements in the past.
ODYSSEIA, Tunesia, Choucha, 2013 © Antoine
d’Agata / Magnum Photos
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ESPACIO FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
In the Footsteps of Inge Morath.
Gazes on the Danube
Curator: Celina Lunsford
Dates: 27 June – 2 October
Organized by: Fundación Telefónica
Olivia Arthur / Lurdes R. Basolí / Kathryn Cook / Jessica Dimmock / Claudia
Guadarrama / Claire Martin / Inge Morath / Emily Schiffer / Ami Vitale
Eight photographers pay tribute to Inge Morath, one of the first female
photographers to become a member of Magnum
The work of these women confronts that of Inge Morath in a show that reconstructs the
itinerary that the pioneering photographer followed along the course of the Danube.
This is a photographic and documentary exhibition project that pays homage to the
figure of Inge Morath (Switzerland, 1923 – United States, 2002), one of the first female
photographers to join the Magnum Photos agency. She began to take photographs in
1951, and was an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson between 1953 and 1954. At thirty,
she began a deep photographic work on the River Danube, which she had to end in the
nineteen nineties as she could no longer have access to certain countries because of
the Iron Curtain.
In the summer of 2014, eight photographers with different nationalities and who had
received the Inge Morath Award for Photography carried out the same course as had
been undertaken by Morath, a pioneer in documentary photography, and which went
from the source of the Danube, in Germany, to its mouth in the Black Sea, in Romania.
Inge Morath. Near Vienna, 1958 © Inge Morath, Magnum Photos
This exhibition brings together images from the journeys made by Morath between
1955 and 1990, as well as the works carried out by the eight photographers over this
course of 2,800 kilometres.
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FERNÁN GÓMEZ. CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA VILLA
Juana Biarnés
Against the current
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Chema Conesa
Dates: 2 June – 31 July
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Teatro Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa and
PHotoEspaña
The exhibition presents the little-known legacy of Spain’s first female
photojournalist
A courageous woman who made a place for herself in a man’s world and captured the
spirit of her time through her photographs.
Very few people know her name. Nevertheless, her photographic legacy is a first person witness to a key period in the twentieth century: the graphic and social chronicle of
the Franco support movement and of the beginning of a new democracy.
Juana Biarnés (Tarrasa, 1935) is considered to be the first female photojournalist in
Spain. She was the woman who managed to get onto the plane and into the hotel with
The Beatles in order to get a historic exclusive and whose camera portrayed the major
personalities who marked out the history of the nineteen sixties and seventies: Jackie
Kennedy, Louis Armstrong, Franco, Marisol, Yul Brynner, Dalí, Jack Lemmon, Orson
Wells and Roman Polanski, among many others.
Juana Biarnés. Paul McCartney en el hotel. Barcelona, julio de 1965. © Juana Biarnés
This is how she managed to take a place in a world of men in order to achieve some images that reveal proximity and sincerity, without unnecessary artifices. Not to mention
her persistence in achieving “that photo”, the image that stood out and should explain
it all, as her father always advised her. A tenacity necessary for someone who was
swimming against the current.
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FERNÁN GÓMEZ. CENTRO CULTURAL DE LA VILLA
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Cristina de Middel
Muchismo
Dates: Dates: 2 June – 31 July
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Teatro Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa and
PHotoEspaña
An introduction to the work of this photographer from Alicante, one of the most
acclaimed contemporary Spanish photographers, through several of her bestknown series.
The images of her series Muchismo were created from combinations and copies
from the prolific artist’s entire inventory, questioning the creation and repetition of
photographic reproduction.
Cristina de Middel (Alicante, 1975) is one of the most relevant artists in contemporary
Spanish photography. In 2012 she published her book Afronautas, a reaction to the
limitations of documentary language when describing and explaining the world. The
relationship between photography, reality and truth, along with the role that the mass
media play in it, stand at the forefront of her artistic concerns.
Cristina de Middel, Muchismo, 2016 © Lademiddel, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016.
In this exhibition her aim is to share a view without filters of what these years have
provided in relation to the production and repetition of photographic exhibition copies
that are hard to fit into the bases of the market and collecting activity. The images in
the series “Muchismo” are all the copies from her inventory with all the variations and
adaptations that respond to fairs, hall plans and commissions. She told her stories with
these photographs, and now, as if they were words in a sentence, she plays with them
and rediscovers them.
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FUNDACIÓN CANAL
Vivian Maier
Street Photographer
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Anne Morin
Dates: 9 June – 16 August
Organized by: Fundación Canal
In collaboration with: diChroma Photography
The first large show dedicated to Vivian Maier, an international figure within
photography, whose work only became known after her death
A unique testimony of New York and Chicago during the second half the 20th century
through the photographs and films of Maier, offering her particular vision of everyday
life.
This is first major exhibition by Vivian Maier (United States, 1926-2009), the self taught
nanny who after her death became a worldwide referent in photography. The exhibition
includes a total of about a hundred and twenty-six photographs and nine Super-8 films
which masterfully capture the urban environment of the New York City and Chicago of
the second half of the twentieth century.
In her free time as a nanny she created a parallel and secret reality, opening up a
fascinating window onto the daily life of public spaces. She managed to take over two
thousand rolls of undeveloped photographs, five thousand prints and over a hundred
and twenty thousand negatives about which, besides her, practically no one had seen
during her lifetime. Maier died in 2009, not knowing that her secret passion, photography, would bring her out of anonymity and make her an enigmatic and fascinating
figure in high quality street photography.
Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait © Vivian Maier / Maloof Collection. Courtesy Howard
Greenberg Gallery, New York.
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LOEWE GRAN VÍA
Lucia Moholy
A Hundred Years Later
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: María Millán
Dates: 2 June – 28 August
Organized by: Fundación Loewe
In collaboration with: Fotostiftung Schweiz
A show featuring the work of one of the principal popularizers of the activities of
the Bauhaus
Lucia Moholy became one of the main documentalists of this movement which aspired
to transform the teaching of art in the first years of the 20th century.
Lucia Moholy (Czech Republic, 1894 – Switzerland, 1989) could not have imagined in
1915, when she entered in her diary her new interest for photography, that she would
become the leading photographer at the Bauhaus, where she began her collaboration
in 1923. Until then, photography had not been part of the school’s activities.
The Bauhaus was an experimentation and investigation center, where art combined
with technology resulted in the most innovating design for architecture and utilitarian
objects. There, Lucia Moholy documented daily activity in the studios and workshops.
She also portrayed Paul Klee, Kandinsky or Anni Albers, among many other artists,
whom she shared experiences for five years.
Her photographic work has been essential to propagate, through books magazines and
brochures, the school’s philosophy and aesthetics.
This exhibition presents some of the work of an artist, photography historian and art
critic whose legacy is still, perhaps, not properly acknowledged.
Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, 1926 © Lucia Moholy, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
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MUSEO CERRALBO
Shirley Baker
Women, Children and Men who let time go by
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Anna Douglas
Dates: 3 June – 4 September
Organized by: Museo Cerralbo and PHotoEspaña
Produced by: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
A frank and sincere reflection of England during in the 1950s
This show pays tribute to Shirley Baker through some of her best-known images as
well as never-before seen photos, offering an ample look at the work of this prolific
photographer.
Manchester, in the north of England, right after the Second World War, was a difficult
area to go through, and much more difficult to live in. Most of the population were
trying to rise up from the ashes and rebuild a normality that was arduous to re-imagine.
This dark and troublesome time had in Shirley Baker (United Kingdom, 1932-2014) one
of its boldest documenters; however, the graphic humanism of her work received little
attention during the over sixty years of her career.
This exhibition —organized by the London Photographers Gallery a year after her
death— pays homage to this major figure in photography and includes previously
unseen images. The intense period of study, going from 1961 to 1981, documents what
Baker saw as the unnecessary destruction of homes in poor working-class areas in
order to build new constructions. Her photographs bear witness to the full power and
resistance of the communities facing this siege.
Shirley Baker, Manchester, 1962. © Shirley Baker
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MUSEO DEL TRAJE. CIPE
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Joséphine Douet
Coutures
Curator: Diego Alonso
Dates: 1 June – 18 September
Organized by: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Museo del Traje and Mondo Galería
This exhibition features a decade of work by Josephine Douet, presenting a
dialogue of influences and inspirations from the world of fashion history
A privileged witness to the forging of dreams behind the scenes of fashion’s great
geniuses, including Valentino, Dior and Chanel, Coutures features intimate images in
which models and fabrics blend together in almost dreamlike scenes.
The exhibition Coutures covers over a decade of work by Douet, who was a witness to
how the dreams of Valentino, Dior and Chanel started to take shape behind the scenes
of the runways. From this privileged point of view she was able to capture intimate images with her lens, many of which are in black and white, showing a magic woven over
the base of pleating, sequins and hand stitching and fleeting moments in the shows
when time seems to have stopped.
These works are presented in a dialogue with the permanent exhibition in the Museo
Nacional del Traje, and generate a discourse around the history of clothing that shows
an unending cycle of influences and inspirations. The creative inheritance and the
dialogue between the present and the historical and aesthetic heritage help one to
understand the evolution of our customs in a more practical manner.
Josephine Douet. Givenchy. Ateliers Berthier, 2007.
© Josephine Douet. Courtesy Mondo Galería
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MUSEO ICO
Andrea Robbins / Max Becher
Robbins & Becher. Displacements
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curators: Andrea Robbins, Max Becher and Ines Rüttinger
Dates: 2 June – 11 September
Organized by: Fundación ICO and Museum für Gegentwartskunst Siegen
In collaboration with: Goethe-Institut Madrid
A look at the last twenty-five years of work by this couple, through some of their
most acclaimed series
The show includes series such as Colonial Remains, German Indians, Global Village,
770, The East’s West and Black Cowboys. A colloquy with the artists will be held on the
occasion of the exhibition.
The work of Andrea Robbins and Max Becher —which brings together an artistic
tradition of documentary photography and a conceptual approach that is a social critique— revolves around that which they themselves call “the transportation of place”:
situations in which a very concrete place is hugely similar to another very far off one but
which nevertheless is accepted as genuinely social. This is a matter of scenarios connected to deep phenomena, such as colonialism, migrations, genocides and slavery,
but also to other ones such as tourism and the mass communication media.
Their photographic series, accompanied by short texts that explain the situations
reproduced, do not intend to constitute journalistic documents, but rather to lead the
spectator to a thorough “reading” of them. The exhibition Robbins & Becher. Displacements, takes place at the ICO Museum in order to show their last twenty-five years of
work, with series like Colonial Remains, German Indians, Global Village, 770, The East’s
West and Black Cowboys.
A colloquium will be organized on May 31st moderated by Eva Schmidt, director of
Museum for Gegenwartskunst Siegen, attended by the authors of the exhibition.
Andrea Robbins y Max Becher. Figures…: Darth Vader, 2002. © Andrea Robbins y Max Becher
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MUSEO LÁZARO GALDIANO
Andrezj Tobis
A-Z.Illustrated Diccionary
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Bogna Świtąkowska
Dates: 4 June – 28 August
Organized by: Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Instituto Polaco de Cultura, Fundación Bęc Zmiana and
PHotoEspaña
Coproduced by: Ministerio de Cultura and Patrimonio Nacional de la República de Polonia
Andrzej Tobis draws on an illustrated German-Polish dictionary from 1954 to
construct a new and current dictionary imbued with irony and humor
A conscientious and surprising artistic project that, from 21st century Poland, illustrates
an unusual and historically significant publication.
Andrzej Tobis (Poland, 1970) is a painter and photographer whose original project
A-Z Ilustrated Diccionary is without doubt one of the most important artistic activities
carried out in Poland in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is an illustrated German-Polish dictionary published in Leipzig in 1954, the aim of which was to facilitate the
understanding of the meaning of the words through illustrations of them. However, this
peculiar work tottered between an objective view of reality and a subjective distortion
of it —no doubt due to the propaganda demands of the then East Germany— in which
each definition and its illustration supposed an intention to “control” what was defined.
Tobis provides his own version, recreating many of these images with very careful
photographs full of irony and sense of humour, highlighting the subtleties contained in
the words and the meaning of the images represented and the concepts assigned to
them. These changes in nuances and the showing of ambiguity are the greatest value
of this project.
Andrzej Tobis, Basen dla niepływających, z cyklu A-Z (Gabloty edukacyjne), 2007, © Andrzej Tobis
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MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA
Humanism and Subjectivity in the Spanish
Photography of the Fifties and Sixties.
The Case of Afal
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curators: Departamento de Colecciones, con Laura Terré y Horacio Fernández
Dates: 30 May – 7 November
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
José María Artero / Leonardo Cantero / Joan Colom / Gabriel Cualladó / Francisco Gómez /
Gonzalo Juanes / Ramón Masats / Oriol Maspons / Xavier Miserachs / Francisco Ontañón /
Carlos Pérez Siquier / Alberto Schommer / Ricard Terré
An exhibition featuring the work of the collective Afal, a group of photographers
whose work was inspired by neorealist documentaries and humanist journalism
A comprehensive testimonial, from the museum’s own archives, offering a vision of
Spanish photography in the 50s, with work by artists such as Ramón Masats, Francisco
Gómez, Leonardo Cantero and Oriol Maspons.
In the early nineteen fifties, in Spain there began to be the development of a photography inspired by the international tendencies of neo-realist documentary and humanist
reportage. Of particular note within this area was the rich activity carried out by the Afal
group, a photography collective set up around the magazine of the same name, directed by José María Artero and Carlos Pérez Siquier between 1956 and 1963.
Thanks to the extending of the holdings of Museo Reina Sofía to include the presence
of the protagonists of this generation and to the recent donation made by Pérez Siquier,
this showing is presenting a selection that deeply explores the Afal group and deals
with the internationalization of the photographers of that period, analyzing their several
different interchanges with other collectives.
On the other hand, and due to a donation from his heirs, the figure of Leonardo Cantero
is highlighted, along with his participation in the exhibition Eleven Spanish Photographers in Paris (1962).
Leonardo Cantero, Untitled. From the series “People from Paris”,
1962 © Leonardo Cantero, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía.
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MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO
Copied by the Sun. The Talbotype Illustrations
of The Annals of the Artists of Spain, William
Stirling Maxwell (1848)
Nicolaas Henneman / William Fox Talbot
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curators: Hilary Macartney and José Manuel Matilla
Dates: 18 May – 4 September
Organized by: Museo Nacional de El Prado
In collaboration with: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (Madrid) and National Media Museum (Bradford, Inglaterra)
Annals of the Artists in Spain, a crucial document of art historiography, contains
texts and a selection of calotype prints by Nicolaas Henneman
A unique chance to study the complete works of William Stirling Maxwell through his
book Annals of the Artists of Spain, a selection of milestones of Spanish art history.
In 1848, the Scots Hispanophile William Stirling Maxwell published the Annals of the
Artists of Spain, a book that boarded, for the first time, the Spanish History of Art in a
chronological way integrating the different arts.
This was three volumes of text, and Stirling added a fourth, illustrated one which
contained 68 Calotypes, a photographic method invented by William Fox Talbot a few
years earlier. Its importance is exceptional because it is the first art book illustrated
with photographs published in the world. The difficulties of the gestation process of
the Calotypes made by Nicolaas Henneman, a disciple of Talbot’s, were soon evident:
due to its several different chemical processes its deterioration began immediately, and
only the strict current preservation conditions have prevented their degeneration.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see six copies of the illustrated volume of the
Annals, which are so fragile that very few people, even specialised academicians, have
ever been able to contemplate a copy.
The Reading Establishment [Salt print], c. 1843. © National Media Museum / Science & Society
Picture Library
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MUSEO NACIONAL DEL ROMANTICISMO
Miroslav Tichý or the Celebration
of the Photographic Process
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Pía Ogea
Dates: 3 June – 18 September
Organized by: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Museo Nacional del Romanticismo
and PHotoEspaña
In an intimate and delicate language, this show portrays woman in a timeless
manner, in which photographic and pictorial idioms combine
The work of a photographic “artisan” who makes his own cameras with found
materials, as well as the subsequent materials of presentation such as frames and
mounts.
The work of Miroslav Tichý (Czech Republic, 1926-2011) is directly linked to the photographic support: ranging from the production of the cameras that he made himself
with waste material and used to make his photographs, to the process of developing or
to their later lives, on which he himself intervenes, on which he drew passe-partouts,
touched up the images and favoured the action of external elements and of time.
“Untitled” Circa 1960-1980. Pieza única. Gelatina de plata sobre Baryt. 45,3 x 35,3 cm medidas con
marco. © Foundation Tichy Ocean. Cortesía Ivorypress
The personality and delicateness of his work is an intimate portrait of his home city, and
at the same time is a universal, timeless portrait of woman— his source of inspiration
in order to tell stories— as well as an implicit anti-conformist statement. His work is of a
unique, almost oneiric beauty, halfway between painting and photography. It is surprising how so much delicateness could be produced among such harshness, and how,
from his life as a hermit, he poetically portrayed femininity and the social changes of
those years in Europe.
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REAL ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO /
CALCOGRAFÍA NACIONAL
Māris Maskalāns
Nagļi. LV- 4631
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Inese Baranovska
Dates: 2 June – 17 July
Organized by: Embajada de Letonia, Latvian National Museum of Art, Real Academia de Bellas
Artes de San Fernando and PHotoEspaña
Maris Maskalans offers deeply-felt portraits of the inhabitants of rural areas of
his native Latvia.
Nagil is a project that led the Latvian director to explore the interior of his country for a
period of twenty-five years, a journey revealing the life of a part of society that, despite
its personality and power, is little-known and appreciated.
The small town of Nagli —located in the borough of Lagtale, to the east of Latvia— is
inhabited by genuine, self-sufficient people whose way of life and manner of thinking
fascinated Māris Maskalāns (1971), a Latvian film director and photographer who, for
over twenty years, has carried out the “Nagli” project, an allegory of preservation of
identity through the portraying of countryside people who, although being a genuine
part of Latvia, are traditionally little known and valued. This collection is a permanent
visual document of the region at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The copies of his black and white photographs were made using the traditional process of printing over silver gelatin, a complicated technique that requires great effort
and time. This medium has a great value in itself, as it allows one to obtain images with
great quality with brilliant black and white tones that emphasise the emotional charge
of the portraits.
Māris Maskalāns. Schoolchildren: Rasma Svalbe (2002), Jānis Svalbe
(1992) and Santa Svalbe (2001), 2010. © Māris Maskalāns
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REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO – CSIC
Bernard Plossu
The Inmobile Hour, a Mediterranean
metaphysics
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Ricardo Vázquez
Dates: 2 June – 31 July
Organized by: Real Jardín Botánico Hôtel des Arts Toulon and PHotoEspaña
Co-produced by: La Fábrica and Hôtel des Arts ToulonBernard
The Royal Botanical Gardens presents the personal vision of Bernard Plossu on
the metaphysics of the Mediterranean, through a hundred photographs taken
over the last thirty years
The artist, PHotoEspaña 2013 Award winner, has chosen timeless images featuring
moments suspended between two acts, shot throughout Spain, France, Italy, Greece
and Turkey.
Bernard Plossu (Vietnam, 1945) has devoted his life to travelling and to photographing
what he observes. Through his journeys —with special dedication to the north of Africa, the African and American deserts and Mediterranean Europe— he has expressed
his permanent search for the exact tonal scale. But more than being a reflection of his
odyssey, his photography tries to capture those expectant moments that remain suspended between two actions, two places and two instants in time. On these journeys
Bernard Plossu has been accompanied by these telescopic presences of the universe,
these magical coincidences that are so disturbing and surrealist.
Bernard Plossu. L’heure immobile (The Immobile Hour) © Bernard Plossu
Through a selection of about a hundred photographs taken in Spain, France, Italy,
Greece and Turkey, this exhibition presents the long dialogue held over thirty years by
this great French photographer with the metaphysics of the Mediterranean, in particular with those of Carlo Carra and José Jorge Oramas. They are deserted, silent landscapes that may be real or imagined which for us are as mysterious as they are familiar
at the same time.
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REAL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO–CSIC
Linarejos Moreno
Tabularia: Science and Imagination
Laboratories
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Fabiola López Durán
Dates: 2 June – 28 August
Organized by: Real Jardín Botánico and PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Transart Foundation for the Art and Anthropology in Houston
In Tabularia: Laboratories of Science and Imagination, Linarejos Moreno
explores the limits between art and science, with large format works in various
media.
This show is articulated around a dialogue between a project produced in collaboration
with the researcher Fabiola López Durán, Tabularia: Laboratories of Science and
Imagination, and his installation Art Forms in Mechanism.
With the arrival of modernity, art and science were located on opposite extremes of an
epistemological split: art “was inventing” while science “was discovering”. A polarity
that this exhibition eliminates, questioning the apparently excluding notions of subjectivity and objectivity, fiction and reality, and culture and nature that are traditionally
attributed to the art-science dyad.
The showing is articulated around the dialogue between a project held in collaboration
with the researcher Fabiola López Durán, Tabularia. Science and Imagination Laboratories —in which Linarejos Moreno (Madrid, 1974) researches into and re-contextualises scientific images— and her installation Art Forms in Mechanism, her own archive of
botanical models from the nineteenth century.
In addition, on 6 June there will be a round table debate with the author herself and various experts that will deal with the conceptual nucleus of the exhibition. This encounter
which will be held at the Glorieta de los Castaños of the Royal Botanical Gardens, will
show how art and science have participated, indifferently, in the processes of creating
images and producing knowledge.
Linarejos Moreno, Art Forms in Mechanism VI, 2009-printed 2016 (detail), © Linarejos Moreno
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TEATRO REAL – ROTONDAS SALA GOYA
Around the World in Twenty Years of Opera
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Dates: 5 May – 28 August
Organized by: Teatro Real and La Fábrica
Consultant: Joaquín Turina
A selection of the most dramatic photos of operas presented at the Royal Opera
House during the past 20 years
The pictures, taken by Javier del Real, the theater’s official photographer, allow viewers
to relive the music, scenes, stage scenery and emotions evoked by the performers,
thanks to this unique album of memories.
Over the last twenty years, the Royal Theatre has taken its spectators to a thousand
worlds. Stories of love and hate set in the most varying landscapes have passed on its
stage in journeys created with a libretto and guided by a stage director.
Through the works of Javier del Real —the Royal Theatre’s official photographer—
the spectators will recognise the moving images, will hear the music, will recall the
performers and will relive all those operas that have had a place in this space during
these twenty years.
This showing may be seen as an album of memories; a fixed photo for those who have
attended one of the performances, but also as an approach to all the places to which
opera wishes to take us. In short, it is a creative spectacle in which the photographs
allow one to draw a wonderful journey with one’s mind.
Javier del Real. Katia Kabanova © Javier del Real
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SALA DE EXPOSICIONES ARQUERÍAS NUEVOS MINISTERIOS
Modelling for the Camera. Photography of
Architectural Models in Spain, 1925-1970
José Manuel Aizpurúa / Ignacio Álvarez Castelao / Balmes / Eugenio Bañón Rodes / Calvo /
Francesc Català-Roca / Antonio Cores / Alejandro de la Sota / Kindel / Fachico / Férriz / Focco /
Foto Elomi / Foto Sender / José María García de Paredes / Paco Gómez / Fernando Higueras / C.
Jiménez / L. Jiménez / Luis Lladó / Ramón Masats / Maspons – Ubiña / Juan Pando Barrero / Carlos
Pérez de las Rosas / Portillo / José Rodríguez / Francisco Sánchez Ors / V. Tibaldos
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Curator: Iñaki Bergera
Dates: June - September 2016
Research: Proyecto de Investigación «Fotografía y arquitectura moderna en España» (FAME)
Organized by: Ministerio de Fomento. Dirección general de Arquitectura, Vivienda y Suelo
A tribute to scale models and photography as major means of architectural
expression
This exhibition features more than one hundred original photographs of scale models
of Spanish architectural projects from the 20th century, including designs by CatalàRoca, Kindel, Lladó, Maspons-Ubiña and Masats, among others.
This exhibition is a continuation of the one held in the ICO Museum ICO (PHE 2014) under the FAME research project. For the first time it pays joint homage to two important
systems of architectural representation: the mockup and the photograph. Recovering
over a hundred original photographs of models of noteworthy projects —well-known
or not so well-known, built or not— in the Spanish modernity of the twentieth century
forms a visual, critical and historiographic discourse of the greatest magnitude, a sort
of visual narrative parallel to the modern becoming of our architecture.
Juan Pando Barrero (Pando) Monument to Jose Batlle y Ordoñez in Montevideo (Uruguay), 1958.
© Juan Pando Barrero, Fundación Jorge Oteiza
Beyond the analysis of its technical or compositional structure, the showing —which
includes photographs by Català-Roca, Kindel, Lladó, Maspons-Ubiña and Masats and
by architects like Aizpurúa and De la Sota, as well as several original mockups portrayed in photographs— underlines the documentary value of the image as the bearer
of an autonomous and transcendent project legacy. This is not an attempt to review
the history of modern architecture and its protagonists, but to explore the identity and
range of its representation.
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TABACALERA. ESPACIO PROMOCIÓN DEL ARTE - ESTUDIOS
Linarejos Moreno
OFFICIAL SECTION MADRID
Dates: 30 June - 28 August
Organized by: Subdirección General de Promoción de las Bellas Artes, Ministerio de Educación,
Cultura y Deporte
Linarejos Moreno reflects on the invention of new meanings in places that have
lost their original function
An installation that bestows new meanings on the space where it’s installed: the
unusual “studios” of the former tobacco factory, Tabacalera.
Often in Linarejos Moreno’s installations large prints on sackcloth and objects charged
with memory become sculptural constructions that speak of an absence. Her work,
determined by the processual use of ruins, explores the semantic possibilities of a material characterised by the dissolution of the whole and disintegration into fragments,
the shifting of original use and the loss of context and content that force the spectator’s
imagination to actively intervene.
It is there, in the invention of new possible meanings of places that have lost their original function and in the claiming of alterity as a political practice, where this coincides
with her exhibition Tabularia: laboratorios de ciencia e imaginación at the Royal Botanic
Gardens. In this aspect and in the fact that both exhibitions are based on a detournement of didactic objects from the nineteenth century. A further opportunity to know
more about a research process in which imagination is not presented in opposition to
the neutrality of science or memory, but lives alongside them, forming what Victor Turner would call a “tense unity”.
Linarejos Moreno. The building of a ruin [Mechanism and 11’ video loop], 2008 © Linarejos Moreno
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CONVENTO DE SANTA MARÍA LA RICA
Jürgen Schadeberg
Visual memory of life. Retrospective
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCALÁ DE HENARES
Dates: 3 June - 4 September
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares and PHotoEspaña
Sponsored by: Embajada de la República Federal de Alemania and Fundación Goethe
In collaboration with: Blanca Berlin Gallery, Schadeberg representative in Spain
A retrospective featuring work from more than seventy-five years in the career
of one of the most emblematic photographers on the cultural scene of recent
decades.
The South Africa of apartheid, post-war Berlin occupied by the allies and the
construction of the Wall are just some of the events captured by Schadeberg’s camera
and shown here.
Jürgen Schadeberg (Germany, 1931) is one of the most emblematic photographers on
the German and world cultural panorama of the second half of the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. This first retrospective of his work in Spain brings the public
over sixty-five years of his professional work. After emigrating to South Africa in 1950,
Schadeberg portrayed the struggle for the abolition of apartheid, and even until nowadays he observes the lives of the South African people with his camera. He established
a friendship with the then unknown lawyer Nelson Mandela that would last until the
latter’s death, and portrayed him on many occasions.
Jürgen Schadeberg. Los últimos días del barrio de Gorbals, 1968 © Jürgen Schadeberg
On his many journeys he has been an active witness to a reality full of contrasts and
inequalities. He captured the Berlin of the postwar period exceptionally well, from the
building of the wall to the consequences of German reunification. In 1964 he moved
to the United Kingdom, where he worked as a photojournalist, teacher and exhibition
curator. Before returning to South Africa in 1985, he lived in Spain, France and the United States. His photographs from this period masterfully combine abstract images with
daily scenes and the denouncing of social ills.
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BULEVAR SALVADOR ALLENDE
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Alberto García-Alix
Paris, rien de plus (Paris, nothing else)
Curator: José María Díaz-Maroto
Dates: 13 April – 16 December
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas
This show features images from one of the most intense periods of Alberto
García-Alix’s life: his move to Paris in 2003
A photographic journey through the City of Light abounding in sincerity, in which the
city, dark and mysterious, comes to life.
At the beginning of the year 2003, Alberto García- Alix (Leon, 1956) leaves Madrid and
settles in Paris, a period that is particularly intense, vital and significant in his career.
Here he creates his first video —My Soul as a Hunter at Stake, a commission from the
galleries Chantal Crousel—and sets out debaucheries and kindnesses, women for
one day, inerasable memories and painful self-portraits. Paris is marked forever in his
biography: new friends, spaces, illusions and passions. Besides, it is in this city that he
firmly and perseveringly integrates into his biographical contents his disturbing interest
for urban, outdoor, shady and dark landscapes; he alternates his way of gazing; and
replaces the serenity that allows the handling of a 6x6 medium format with the gestural
spontaneity provided by the traditional 35 mm.
A selection of this work makes up the showing Alberto García-Alix. París, Rien de plus.
Paris, nothing else… forms a journey through the city in which he possibly may have
lived the toughest moments of his career.
Alberto García-Alix. Way to Golgotha, 2003 © Alberto García-Alix
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CENTRO CULTURAL ANABEL SEGURA
Yannis Karpouzis
The Parallel Crisis
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Dates: 9 June – 14 August
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas and PHotoEspaña
Yannis Karpouzis, winner of the PHE 2015 Discoveries Prize, portrays a duality
between the cuurent state of the financial crisis and the power of photography
to capture the instant
In The Parallel Crisis the artist reflects on the “immobilized time” captured by
photographs
Nowadays, the media are much more complex in their representing of daily life. Nevertheless, photography maintains its greatest advantage as its privilege: immobilised,
past photographic time is the most fitting canvas on which to visualise these frozen
moments.
Yannis Karpouzis (Greece, 1984), winner of the Discoveries PHE 15 Award, here has a
solo exhibition of his series “The Parallel Crisis”. In this work, he draws out a comparison between the “dead time” of the financial crisis and the “frozen time” that photography produces. Photography reaches its poetic destination when it narrates the story of
those who are imprisoned, of those men whose time has been spent, of immobilised
men. In this way, Karpouzis states that the time presented in photography is an “immobilised time”, as it always refers to past moments that, like the times of crisis, cannot be
visited again.
Yannis Karpouzis. Street scene: soldier returning home. From the series “The Parallel Crisis”,
2010-16 © Yannis Karpouzis
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CENTRO CULTURAL ANABEL SEGURA
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Boundaries
Máster PHotoEspaña
Dates: 4 June – 23 July
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
Emilio Azevedo / Cecilia Azniv Lutufyan / Juan Cano / Jonas Forchini / Silvia Griglio /
Daniel Martín Maestro / Gema P. Asensi / Bilal Touzani / Xia Zhengfei
A group show whose main theme is the aspiration, common among artists, to
move beyond limits and frontiers, be it in photography itself or society in general
A show featuring the work of cutting-edge artists, students of the PhotoEspaña Master
in Photography of the PhotoEspaña International Center Alcobendas (PIC.A).
Grouped under the title Boundaries is the work of the nine artists who have taken the
eighth holding of the PHotoEspaña Masters in Photography at PHotoEspaña International Centre Alcobendas (PIC.A).
They have a great diversity of projects, subjects and interests, and most of them share
the same creative concern: the need to go beyond the limits, the boundaries and the
frontiers, whether this is of photography itself and of photographic language—like
Azevedo and Griglio, with recourse to other meanings and disciplines—or of the limits
that society sets up through strict norms of sociability and upbringing, as set out by
Asensi. This can be seen in the works on the tangible and the intangible by Lutyfyan,
on the visible and the invisible by Xia, and on the permitted and the prohibited by
Forchini. In turn, Touzani deals with issues such as appropriation in the technological
age, while Cano and Martín project an intimate gaze on the city and its peoples.
Daniel Martín Maestro. Semana Santa, 2016 © Daniel Martín Maestro
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CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Ricardo Cases
Pigeon in the Air
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Dates: 5 May – 22 June
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas
Photographer Ricardo Cases enters into the colorful world of pigeon keepers
An original exhibition exploring the world of those dedicated to breeding and training
these surprising birds
Raising a champion racing pigeon brings prestige and earnings. Having been painted
in combinations of colours, the chosen pigeon, which is raised and trained in order
to mate, becomes a projection of the pigeon fancier, who will embody its sporting,
economic and sexual success or failure in the eyes of the community. In this universe,
far removed from his daily misery, the pigeon fancier has a parallel life in which he can
reach to the highest levels. All he has to have is a winning bird. The pigeon fancier
remains on the ground, but his projection can fly.
This work by Ricardo Cases (Orihuela, 1971) proposes a study of this sport as a symbolic act, as a projection and form of relating to the world. A group of men running around
the fields after their birds, watching their mating activities, discussing the rules and the
arbitration, an act that refers back to the ethnographic documentation of the rites of
remote tribes or to the group of children who invent the game as they are discovering
the world.
Ricardo Cases. Untitled. From the series “Pigeon in the Air”, 2011 © Ricardo Cases
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CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Pierre Gonnord
Portrait photographer
Curators: Belén Poole and José María Díaz Maroto
Dates: 18 May – 3 September
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas
This show features a selection of prints and a video focusing entirely on mine
workers
The show presents the work, mostly unseen, of one of the most acclaimed
contemporary portrait photographers working in Spain.
Since the birth of photography, the portrait has been an obsession for photographers;
claiming and showing the epidermis, the mark of time as tattooed life. This premise has
been and still is the passion of Pierre Gonnord (France, 1963), the winner of the City of
Alcobendas International Photography Contest 2015 and protagonist of this solo showing of his work, most of which is previously unseen.
In his stoic works, everything that appears, exists; the marks of light are marks of time.
Figures without a landscape, with no artifice, with no other support than these marks
on the skin. Using light as a mechanism to seek out the volume that brings entity to the
faces and solidity to the surroundings, Gonnord gets inside the everyday story of each
of the people he portrays.
The exhibition is made up of a selection of works supported on the theme of spiritual
idealisms— not just in religious terms—and on a video graphical work totally carried
out in mining deposits, where the firm, stark gaze of the characters embodies protagonism from beginning to end.
Pierre Gonnord. HATTIE, 2012 © Pierre Gonnord
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CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Aleix Plademunt
Almost there
Curator: Belén Poole
Dates: 23 June –3 September
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas
The show’s title, Almost there, reflects the artist’s frustration at the absence of
absolute answers
An exploration of time and distance through the medium of photography; PHE15
Revelación Award.
In this project, Aleix Plademunt (Girona, 1980) presents a complex constellation of images, exploring time and distance and taking both notions to their most extreme poles.
In the final instance, he communicates the frustration generated by never being able to
be sufficiently close, not sufficiently far away; he only manages to be “almost there”. He
introduces the idea that there are no absolute answers: everything is relative. Distances, emotions, time. There must be no rules in his readings.
In a context in which everything is suggested in one way or another—normally following points of view that are standardised by being alien to themselves— this work
moves in the opposite direction to the conditioning factors. Almost There photographs
photography as a journey from an imaginary return and, at the same time, as a reflection of a “there” that one can never observe in the same way again. In short, it proposes
a way of wandering through the genres and languages with which the individual tries
to understand the world through images, but also through how photography conditions
its perception.
Aleix Plademunt. Snake. From the series “Almost There”, 2013 © Aleix Plademunt
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CENTRO DE ARTE ALCOBENDAS
Nicolas Grospierre
All pales before the book
OFFICIAL SECTION ALCOBENDAS
Dates: 30 June – 15 September
Organized by: Centro de Arte Alcobendas
El Centro de Arte Alcobendas presents the work of Swiss photographer Nicolas
Grospierre
All Pales Before the Book consist of photos, installations and videos, with the aim of
paying tribute to books as a universal means of communication.
All pales before the book presents the printed book as the universal medium, the container which holds all the narrations, the story that tells all the stories, including that of
its own birth, but also of its own destruction.
In this exhibition, Nicolas Grospierre (Switzerland, 1975) has assembled several
works—photographs, photographic objects, installations, videos— which, combined
and every time in a different way, praise the wonder of the book by showing the vertigo
and exhilaration that enlightenment can create, discover the melancholy at the prospect of a devastated library and reveal the capacity of knowledge to come back to life
once it has been destroyed, literally rising from its own ashes.
Nicolas Grospierre. The Never-Ending Corridor of Books © Nicolas Grospierre
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LA CÁRCEL. SEGOVIA CENTRO DE CREACIÓN
Carlos Saura
Spain, Nineteen Fifties
OFFICIAL SECTION SEGOVIA
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 8 June – 31 July
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Segovia an PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Steidl
España, años 50 is realistically portrays Spain in the 1950s, a contradictory
period in which poverty and desperation coexist with the cultural richness and
open spirit of its people
The city of Segovia joins PHotoEspaña as an Official Festival Site with a magnificent
exhibition of the photographic side of the director Carlos Saura.
Although he is internationally acknowledged for his movies, Carlos Saura (Huesca,
1932) has combined his work as a film director with that of a photographer. He started
out in this activity at an early age, and his first exhibition took place at the Madrid Royal
Photographical Society in 1951.
This exhibition brings together a selection of the photographs he took in the Spain of
the nineteen fifties, and forms a veritable photographic album of the towns and people
he discovered on his several different trips around the country. His images take the
spectator back to a time that seems far off and to places that are hardly known nowadays, presenting a wretched, sad, repressed Spain steeped in poverty; but also a country with a great cultural richness, with open-hearted, simple and hard-working people
who are the reflection of the life and customs of a nation, of its parties and its rites. In
short: a country with a great cultural richness, the result of multiple influences.
Carlos Saura. Sanabria © Carlos Saura
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CENTRO DE HISTORIAS
Daniel Blaufuks
All the Memory in the World, Part One
OFFICIAL SECTION ZARAGOZA
Dates: 9 June – 14 August
Organized by: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Cultural and PHotoEspaña
Sponsored by: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, MNAC
In collaboration with: VERA CORTÊS art agency and Embajada de Portugal
Daniel Blaukfus reflects on the phenomenon of the Internet and its influence
An atlas of pictures exploring memory, articulated around a visual map created from
the assembly of archival images.
This exhibition is dedicated to memory, to literature and to the constantly growing
archive that is the Internet. How can one relate all the memory in the world? The
sub-heading “part one” assume the impossibility of this task, and in this exhibition set
out over three different spaces, proposes to represent a part of this memory.
In order to carry out this task, Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal, 1963) has used sources that
cover a wide technical and time range. The exhibition presents a group of works associated to the idea and creation of an “atlas of images” on memory by means of a sort of
visual map made through the linking of archive images with those taken from his own
work. A collage in which, in his own words, he attempts to “set out on a journey through
the different forms of seeing, the different variations on a same theme” that have been
produced about the Holocaust from a contemporary viewpoint.
Daniel Blaufuks, Spartakiad, 2014 © Daniel Blaufuks
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CENTRO DE HISTORIAS: LA CRIPTA
Pat Graham
Instrument
OFFICIAL SECTION ZARAGOZA
Curator: Antonella Montinaro
Dates: 16 June – 21 August
Organized by: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Cultural and GACMA
In collaboration with: STAF MAGAZINE
In this show Pat Graham reflects on the parallels between photographers and
musicians
The intimate relationship between photographers and their cameras and musicians
and their instruments transform the objects into veritable extensions of human beings.
Between musicians and their instruments, or between photographers and their cameras, there is always a relationship of love with all of its dynamics: attraction, passion,
attachment and, sometimes, even a love-hatred ambivalence. In both cases, the instrument or the camera become even an extension of their bodies, with the only difference
being that the photographer has the capacity to capture the magical moment of a fortuitous encounter in an image in order to immortalise it in a timeless dimension through
photography. All of these instruments that are mediators between the musician and the
intangible glory of a song, whether they are pampered or abused, hold their secrets.
In the early nineteen eighties, in Washington DC, punk was going through a transformation that the photographer Pat Graham (United States, 1970), although he was an
adolescent, witnessed at first hand. Through his work he contributed towards documenting one of the most influential subcultures of the United States.
Pat Graham. Flaming Lips, 2009 © Pat Graham
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LA LONJA
Chema Conesa
Paper portraits
OFFICIAL SECTION ZARAGOZA
Curators: Ramón Masats and Alberto Anaut
Dates: 21 May – 4 September
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza and PHotoEspaña
Produced by: Dirección General de Promoción Cultural de la Comunidad de Madrid
In collaboration with: La Fábrica
The main theme of this show consists of portraits of various generations of
illustrious men and woman, from Spain’s transition to democracy in the 1970s to
the present
Miguel Delibes, Camilo José Cela, Antonio López, los barones Thyssen, Penélope Cruz
and Emma Suarez are just some of those appearing in this ample portrait gallery.
Born in the press and thanks to the press—more specifically to magazines—, Chema
Conesa (Murcia, 1952) has created and developed a style of his own, intimately connected to editorial activity. His portraits are commissions full of deep literality, thought
of in order to be published and take place in the most unexpected places. Through
them he has been carrying out an extensive biography of Spain for over thirty years.
The images selected for this exhibition have a guiding thread: they are portraits of
several different generations of illustrious men and women who have lived through
the most fascinating period of this country, from the golden years of the transition to
the turbulent moments of today. The Spain that the photographer shows is made up
of a collection of astounding portraits in which some of the most important names
in society interpret, like in a mirror, the world of the photographer who has portrayed
themselves.
Chema Conesa. Camarón, 1986 © Chema Conesa
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MUSEO DE ALBACETE
OFFICIAL SECTION CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Caio Reisewitz
Today’s Apparatuses
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 23 June – 28 August
Organized by: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and La Fábrica
A portrait of the industrial aspect of La Mancha
Caio Reisevizt presents a project “disproving” the idea of the Community of Castilla-La
Mancha’s rootedness in agriculture.
The photographs of Caio Reisewitz (Brazil, 1967), one of the most internationally renowned Brazilian photographers, show the industrial potential of a community apparently anchored in its agricultural past.
Caio Reisewitz travelled through several different cities in the Castilla-La Mancha
region taking photographs of its technological firms, astronomical centres, hydrogen
centres, photovoltaic institutes, thermal power stations and DOC quality guaranteed
wine-producing estates. His images of the Airbus plant in Illescas, Toledo, the Yebes
Astronomical Centre in Guadalajara, the National Hydrogen Centre and the GICC
thermal power station in Puertollano, Ciudad Real—where they develop technology
channelled towards obtaining a sustainable model of energy generating, cleanly using
solid fuels of low economic value—show a community that is undergoing full development of its potential.
Caio Reisewitz. Astronomic Center Yebes (CAY), 2015 © Caio Reisewitz
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MUSEO DE CIUDAD REAL – CONVENTO DE LA MERCED
OFFICIAL SECTION CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Montserrat Soto
Original Datum 5. Picture Gallery
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 15 June – 31 August
Organized by: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and La Fábrica
A journey through the work of artists from La Mancha’s Golden Age (16th and 17th
centuries) held by the regions museums.
Montserrat Soto explores pieces that show a direct link between books and their
representation.
Dato Primitivo 5. Pinacoteca is a series of photographs that depict works by authors
from the Spanish Golden Age period of art —in most cases, Manchego or other artists
who have been involved with La Mancha—, in which one can see the direct link between the book and its representation. They were taken by Montserrat Soto (Barcelona,
1961) in 2015.
The series takes some images from paintings created after the invention of the press
and which contain the iconography of the book. In the style of a picture library, they are
related by how they are shown in the paintings, with the aim of showing the intentions
with which the book, as an image with complex structures, is used in order to generate
new associations of ideas. In this exhibition the information that the image of a book
provides opens up before its own meaning, contextualized within the work, and before
the inter-relations established with other works.
Montserrat Soto. Original Datum 5, 2015 © Montserrat Soto
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MUSEO DE CUENCA
OFFICIAL SECTION CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Jordi Bernadó
The Footprints of Don Quixote
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 18 June – 4 September
Organized by: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and La Fábrica
Jordi Bernadó visits diverse monuments and other witnesses related to Don
Quijote
A humorous reflection on the influence exercised by this universal character from La
Mancha.
Jordi Bernadó (Lerida, 1966), winner of the Laus Award (1990) for his book Good News
and the PHotoEspaña and Ministry of Culture Award for the best book (2002) for Very
Very Bad News, travelled through several different places in the Community of Castilla-La Mancha region seeking out the footsteps of Don Quixote.
Bernadó, with a great capacity for observation and the touch of humour and irony that
characterizes his work, travelled to cities such as Almodóvar del Campo, Madridejos,
Puerto Lápice, Toboso, Villarta de San Juan, Daimiel and Campo de Criptana, and
found statues of Don Quixote on his horse and brandishing his sword in the middle of
nowhere, crowning the gate of a farm or announcing one’s arrival into a town; the name
of Dulcinea heralding antique shops and pubs; Don Quixote motifs decorating the
curtains on the doors of houses or on the windmills that are typical to the landscape of
La Mancha region.
Jordi Bernadó. Campo de Criptana, 2014 © Jordi Bernadó
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MUSEO DE GUADALAJARA
OFFICIAL SECTION CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
Ferdinando Scianna
The City and its People
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 24 June – 28 August
Organized by: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and La Fábrica
A look at La Mancha’s people and architecture
In this show Ferdinando Scianna offers his impressions of this region during his trip
through the area in 2015.
In the winter of 2015, Ferdinando Scianna (Italy, 1943), one of the major Italian reporters
belonging to the Magnum Photos agencies, travelled throughout several different cities
in the Community of Castilla- La Mancha region photographing its peoples.
The pictures taken in the cities he travelled to (Albacete, Almagro, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo, among others) show both the architectural wealth of the
area as well as the strong presence of religious elements. Of note are the magnificence
of the Palacio del Infantado in Guadalajara, the façade of the Cathedral of Cuenca and
the interior of the Cathedral of Toledo. Scianna also portrayed the different generations
of its inhabitants, from the young people who play in the snow or fool around in front of
the camera to the old people sitting on stools watching people go by, including couples
taking selfies and ladies covering themselves up against the cold in their fur coats.
Ferdinando Scianna Guadalajara, 2015 © Ferdinando Scianna
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MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ
OFFICIAL SECTION CASTILLA-LA MANCHA
John Davies
Landscapes of La Mancha
Curator: Oliva María Rubio
Dates: 25 June – 4 September
Organized by: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha and La Fábrica
A journey through the landscapes of La Mancha
The British photographer John Davies presents his travels through several of La
Mancha’s most important nature reserves.
John Davies (United Kingdom, 1949), one of the most renowned landscape photographers and an influential contemporary documentary-maker, has managed to capture
the essence of British countryside and urban landscape. He has travelled to the natural
parks of the Community of Castilla-La Mancha and photographed his surroundings.
Davies travelled through the natural parks of Río Dulce, Calares del Río Mundo and
Sima, the Hoz Gorge and the Upper Tagus natural park, taking note of the landscape
wealth of these areas.
His images, taken during the autumn, show a landscape of vegetation that is often lush;
of rocky hillocks whose stratifications show the signs of erosion; of deep chasms and
skies covered in clouds. Images with a great emotional and symbolic charge and which
remind one of paintings.
John Davies. Natural park of Río Dulce & Pelegrina, 2014 © John Davies, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Vasil Stanko. Photographs
Dates: 29 June – 4 September
Vasil Stanko (Slovakia, 1962) is recognized photographer who has become part of the
cultural awareness both in Europe and overseas. His photographs present a world of
their own. They arise both from live through dreams and from reportedreality. In them,
we share this artist`s world, which reflects the states of his soul. He is very sensitive,
fragile and vulnerable; he does not speak much, he lets his photos speak for himself.
The world of his imagination is expressed with the help of naked human bodies. The
figure is a means of expression, mostly not concrete, staging and composing his
dreams to express his view of the world. He finds inspiration in empty factory halls, in
deserted and devastated theatre halls. This is the world which he fills with premeditated figural compose; thus we have an opportunity to view not only the creative workshop of the artist, but also his private life full of hidden eroticism, moods, impressions
and visions.
Vasil Stanko. Man and requisite © Vasil Stanko
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MUSÉE NICÉPHORE-NIÉPCE
L’oeil de l’expert. La photographie
contemporaine
(The expert eye. Contemporary photography)
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 18 June – 18 September
The idea behind this exhibition is to get back to the Musée Nicéphore Niépce’s original
policy with regard to contemporary photography that takes a stand against the art market and its institutionalisation, refusing to double the collections constituted by other
museums. The museum’s choices include support for French and international new
work, artist in residence programmes, the constitution of a collection of pieces that
manage to give a complete vision of the career of a given artist and producing prints
under the supervision of the photographers. This has opened the museum’s collections
up to a reflection on the world and the photographic medium as a whole through the
expert eye of the artist.
Elina Brotherus. Mr. Cheval’s nose. From the series “Suites Francaises 2”, 1999 © Elina Brotherus
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PHOTOIRELAND
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Flâneur by Dublin
Dates: 2 – 24 July
Flâneur by Dublin, as part of the 7th edition of PhotoIreland Festival, is bringing the
commissioned works of two great contemporary photographers to the streets of Ireland’s capital. The photographs will be displayed in a series of large cubes, dispersed
over a metal pathway that becomes part of the public space where it is installed. The
cubes become lightboxes at dusk, creating a special display and extending the enjoyment of this open-air gallery throughout the night.
The exhibition is part of “Flâneur – New Urban Narratives”, a new, European Union
funded, two years long project, transforming photographers into flâneurs and requesting them to apply a new approach to their work within the urban territory. The project
involves an international network of some twenty organisations from eleven different
countries, and it will be presented in the thirteen partner cities.
Flâneur – New Urban Narratives
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ISTAMBUL MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Habitat
Dates: 23 December 2015 – 22 May 2016
Kürşat Bayhan / Kerem Ozan Bayraktar / Zeynep Beler / Görkem Ergun / Beril Gür /
Çağlar Kanzık / Oğuz Karakütük / Barbaros Kayan / Gündüz Kayra / Neslihan Koyuncu /
Desislava Şenay Martinova / Ali Taptık / Serkan Taycan
This latest contemporary photography exhibition brings together varied perspectives
on the spaces we live in. The exhibition examines the evolving concept of space,
continuously defined and redefined, through the work of thirteen artists selected by
Istanbul Modern’s Photography Advisory Board.
“Habitat” is the place where an organism lives and grows, and also the set of physical
and geographical factors that affect the development of an individual, a town, a species
or determined group of species. Their habitats are physically redesigned and restructured under the pressure of daily conditions. The borders that are drawn to determine
biological, personal or political spaces usually give rise to contradictions and conflict.
Using this starting point, and through themes such as the individual’s relationship with
nature, migration or urban transformations, the images analyse the necessary adaptation of species to a determined surrounding that possesses the adequate conditions
for guaranteeing their perpetuation.
Barbaros Kayan. Ayazma Project, 2008 © Barbaros Kayan
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THE FINNISH MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Alec Soth
Gathered Leaves
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 10 June – 28 August
The photographer, Magnum agency photojournalist, Instagrammer and self-publisher
Alec Soth (United States, 1969) is an all-round photography professional who seeks
to encounter his audience through different formats from social media to museum
exhibitions. It is no wonder that he is one of the most talked about photographers of the
2010s.
The exhibition Gathered Leaves brings together the four major works that brought Soth
to the forefront worldwide. Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual and
Songbook, all photographed between 2004 and 2014, introduce the viewer to poetic
studies of people whom Soth has encountered in small towns, suburbs, wilderness and
national landscapes.
At a time when we are flooded with more photos than ever before, Soth uses his talents
to gather the leaves of a disjoined reality into a single arresting collection.
Alec Soth. Charles Vasa, Minnesota. From the series “Sleeping by the
Mississippi”, 2002 © Alec Soth
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THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Double Take: drawing and photography
Dates: 15 April – 3 July
Anna Barriball / Pierre Bismuth / Marcel Broodthaers / Paul Chiappe / Richard Forster /
Jolana Havelkova / Nancy Hellebrand / Lisa Junghanß / Běla Kolářová / László MoholyNagy / Curtis Moffat Jiří Thýn
Drawing and photography both offer direct, functional and transparent ways of engaging with the world, while each have also played a significant role in revolutionising
developments in modern and contemporary art.
Photography, literally meaning “drawing with light”, enabled “nature to draw itself” as
describe by Henry Fox Talbot, scientist and inventor of photography, in his publication
The Pencil of Nature (1844): it is not the artist who makes the picture but the picture
which makes itself.
This exhibition seeks to explore the multifarious ways photography and drawing have
been combined, mirrored and contrasted to extend both practices into new arenas,
giving artists passage to new visual languages and forms of expression.
Nancy Hellebrand, Inside 64. From the series “Handwriting”, 1989-2016 © Nancy Hellebrand. Courtesy
of the artist
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THE LUMIÈRE BROTHERS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Sandro Miller
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich:
Homage to photographic masters
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 2 june – 28 August
In 2013, after having secured his place as one of the top advertising photographers
worldwide, Sandro Miller (United States, 1958) set out to complete a series that honors
the photographs that have inspired and impacted him throughout his life: Irving Penn’s
portrait of Truman Capote; Bert Stern’s photographs of Marilyn Monroe; Dorothea
Lange’s image of a migrant mother; Robert Mapplethorpe’s self-portrait; Annie Leibovitz’s image of John Lennon and Yoko Ono shot for Rolling Stone Magazine; Diane
Arbus’ iconic photograph of a boy holding a toy hand grenade; Richard Alvedon’s
beekeeper, among many others.
The series manages to capture the style and composition of the original photographs
using Miller’s creative talent and the immense interpretational capacity of his protagonist: the legendary actor and personal friend of the artist, John Malkovich, who very
exactly recreates the expressions of the individuals photographed.
Sandro Miller. Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe, crucifix II (1962), 2014 © Sandro Miller
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MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Marcel Gautherot
Form as narrative: the photographs
of Marcel Gautherot
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 15 June – 28 August
The first broad retrospective of Marcel Gautherot (France, 1910 – Brazil, 1996) outside
Brazil and opens in his hometown, Paris, thus serving simultaneously two important
goals: first, to reintroduce Marcel Gautherot in his native cultural and intellectual circle
of Paris, where he, in the 1930´s, was very active in the city art circuit; and, secondly, to
present his outstanding work to the international audience, including, particularly, his
role as the photographer of choice of architect Oscar Niemeyer.
His body of work played a key role in the construction of the country’s modern representation and imaginary, both in Brazil and abroad. His monumental documentary
project on Brazil was built with an outstanding formal awareness and constitutes
a permanent legacy to Brazilian culture and to the cultural ties between Brazil and
France, as well as a significant legacy to the broadening understanding of photography
as an itinerant and clearly international language in the construction of modernity and
contemporaneity.
Marcel Gautherot. The Ministerial Esplanade under construction, c. 1958 © Marcel Gautherot
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LATVIA NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART
Tamed Nature. Nature Motifs in Fashion
from the 18th Century till Nowadays
Alexandre Vassiliev’s private couture
collection
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 13 July – 16 October
Alexandre Vassiliev’s private couture collection shows at the Museum of Decorative
Arts and Design in Riga have become a tradition since 2009. The theme of the new exhibition is the diverse metamorphosis of nature in the fashion from the 18th century till
nowadays. The exhibition comprises over a hundred haute couture outfits and accessories, which are supplemented with archive photo documents.
Alexander Vassiliev (Russia, 1962), a fashion historian and artist, is the owner of one
of the greatest collections related to fashion in the world, including over fifty thousand
articles. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of fashion. He has
created more than a hundred opera and ballet set designs for leading theatres in
France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and elsewhere in the world. Earlier he was engaged also as the feature editor of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar magazines,
Russian edition.
Vintage post card. Josephine Baker. Paris, 1960-ies. From the private
collection of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation
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NEDERLANDS FOTOMUSEUM
Crime Scenes. A hundred years
of photographic evidence
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 13 May – 21 August
Can a photograph demonstrate, reveal or prove what really happened? Certainly a
photograph shows something that once existed. But does that mean that it is always
“the truth”?
Crime Scenes is the first exhibition ever to show how photography has been used as
visual evidence in the courts, and proposes a journey, through eleven case studies,
that illustrates the use of photography as legal evidence over the past century. They
concern matters such as crime, war, political history and present-day conflicts and
feature issues of major humanitarian importance and/or relevance to international law.
Together, they illustrate the attempts made to use photographs as legal evidence and,
definitively, offer fascinating insights into the way the courts have viewed photography
over time.
Alphonse Bertillon, Murder of Mr. Canon, boulevard de Clichy, December 9, 1914. Headquarters of
the Paris police department forensic identification © Archives de la Préfecture de Police de Paris
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FUNDACJA BĘC ZMIANA
Mikołaj Długosz
Summer in the City
OFFICIAL SECTION EUROPE
Dates: 1 July – 28 August
Summer in the City is a collection of photos selected from the archive of an institution
producing postcards. Postcards usually depict tourist attractions or whatever it is
the local residents are proud of. In the 1970s, from which this collection is drawn, the
socialist authorities took out huge loans to modernize the country. Many modern buildings were built at that time, serving different functions, fitting into the urban landscape
in varied and often surprising ways. Their images are the heart of this exhibition, while
scenes from daily life appear in the background: typography, shop signs, neon lights or
car models rarely seen today. These photos stir nostalgia among the citizens of Eastern
Europe who were growing up during those times, while drawing in others who do not
remember that world with an exotic appeal.
Mikołaj Długosz. Summer in the city [Łódź 1973. Swimming pool “Anilana” Sport Club, photo by
Stelmach/KAW] © Mikołaj Długosz
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Invited Venues
OFF FESTIVAL MADRID
CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ
FNAC CALLAO
HOTEL IBEROSTAR LAS LETRAS GRAN VÍA
Photographers of the Casa de Velázquez
2016
Christian Rodríguez
A Mixe Flower
Iberian Gazes. La Fábrica Collection
Antonio Barroso / Vicky Méndiz / Paco López / Maria-do-Mar Rêgo /
Dates: 8 June – 28 August
Vicente Sáez Castaño / Anna Katharina Scheidegger / Aurore Valade
Francesc Català-Roca / Robert Frank / Fernando Herráez /
Xavier Miserachs / Ricard Terré
Dates: 6 – 28 June
Dates: 1 – 30 June
Each year, the Casa de Velázquez receives about forty
artists through the awarding of annual or monthly grants. On
this occasion, it is joining with the programming of PHotoEspaña with a group exhibition that brings together the
photographic work of its member artists and grant recipients who have used their respective disciplines—visual arts,
cinema and photography—to propose a plural showing, with
varied aesthetic and conceptual focuses, of the work they
have been carrying out in this exceptional field of creation.
The interest of Christian Rodríguez (Uruguay, 1980) lies
in exposing a modern view of women and their surroundings. In this series, he powerfully documents adolescent
pregnancy and domestic sexual abuse with a delicate and
poetic touch through the respectful portraying of Gloria.
The symbolic elements, the story underlying the images,
the whispers and his subtle melancholy speak of a tragedy
that is still too extensive in the region, one caused directly
by ignorance, gender inequality and poverty.
The selection of works for this exhibition, taken from among
the holdings of La Fábrica, presents a variety of different
gazes on the Iberian Peninsula, its peoples, cities and landscapes: Xavier Miserachs, Francesc Català-Roca and Ricard
bear witness to the Spain of the nineteen fifties; Robert
Frank travelled to a Valencia in 1952, where he took some
emotive images of rituals, children, night-time scenes and of
the sea; and the photographs of Fernando Herráez transport
one to Vila do Conde and Castelo do Queijo, in Portugal.
Christian Rodríguez. A Mixe Flower © Christian Rodríguez
Vicky Méndiz. Claire Kuijck, 2016 © Vicky Méndiz
Ricard Terré, Easter Week. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1958 © Ricard
Terré
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OFF FESTIVAL MADRID
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DE CULTURA
MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES
REAL SOCIEDAD FOTOGRÁFICA
Gabriele Basilico
Architecture and City. Photographs
from the MAXXI Collections
Juan del Junco
Conceptual Andalusia & Européen
en vol
The Dolcets’ Triple Gaze
Dates: 27 May – 9 September
Dates: 4 June – 4 September
For Gabriele Basilico (Italy, 1944-2013) photographing the
urban space means entering into a relationship with its
physical body and with its experienced organic nature. The
state of suspension that accompanies his images reflects
his aim to capture the deepest structure of the city. This
showing is a journey through several different Italian and
international cities carried out by means of the gaze of one
of the most important authors in contemporary photography. The works exhibited come from the MAXXI Architecture and the MAXXI Art collections.
The starting point for this project is the artist’s personal
memory, who delves into his recollections in order to bring
up the books that he used to look at when he was a child:
Oiseaux en vol (1962) and Wild Andalusia. Coto Doñana
(1967), by Charles-A. Vaucher. Going from this evoked
image, he constructs a metaphor linked to freedom and
migratory routes with which he reflects on that which is
happening today in Europe: in the same way that birds
move to more favourable places, thousands of refugees
intend to find an identical destination.
Gabriele Basilico. Milano, Casa-albergo in via Corridoni (Milan,
apartment building in Corridoni Street), 2010 © Gabriele Basilico
Juan del Junco. From the series “Conceptual Andalusia”, 2015-16 ©
Juan del Junco
Elías Dolcet del Álamo / Juan Carlos Dolcet del Álamo / Juan
Dolcet Santos
Dates: 9 June – 30 July
The Spanish Royal Photographic Society presents a joint
exhibition with holdings from its photography museum that
shows images representing the beginnings of documentary
photography and unique introspective and intimate portraits
carried out by the father, Juan Dolcet, an outstanding member of the so-called Madrid School; the modern experimentation of Elías Dolcet as a participant in the renewing breeze
that was involved in Nueva Lente and their belonging to
the Fifth Generation, as well as the testimony of the Madrid
scene through the images taken by Juan Carlos Dolcet.
Elías Dolcet del Álamo. Portrait in White, 1976 © Elías Dolcet del
Álamo
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Off Festival
OFF FESTIVAL MADRID
6MAS1 ARTE
ASPA CONTEMPORÁNEA
BAT ALBERTO CORNEJO
Between World and Toy
Patricia Gómez y María Jesús González
/ Nieves Mingueza / Rebecca Wilton
Nagore Legarreta
Hysteron
No words
Dates: 28 May – 30 July
Curator: Francisco Ramallo
Dates: 9 June – 15 July
Curator: Luisa de la Hija Olague – Photogune
Dates: 9 June – 23 July
No words is the proposal by Contemporánea colective,
composed by twenty-nine photographers in which the
strength of the images makes it superfluous to use words
to explain their meaning. Ranging from intimate pictures to
social portraits, No Words is the expression of an individual feeling, between the photographer and his work and
between the work and the spectator. Strolling through this
gallery of images transports one into unsuspected places
in the mind, to unusual spots in conduct, to unknown corners of the world and to nostalgic landscapes of memory.
The parallels between Duino Elegies, by Rilke, and The
Aesthetics of Disappearance, by Paul Virilio, contain a
space based on the time lapse needed to capture the evanescent. This showing reproduces a fraudulent process of
erasing. Using different techniques, the memory of a prison
is preserved, the time period indispensable for demolishing
a building is set up and the time previous to the dissolving
of the psyche of a domestic interior is crystallised.
Hysteron is a photographic series that portrays fragmented
and shattered women, who try to fuse themselves together
but, at the same time, push and hurt each other. Nagore
Legarreta (Hernani, 1981) constructs a dense oneiric
cosmos that shows the crisis of the individual, of the
woman and of their identities. The photographs were taken
with cylindrical stenopeic cameras with four holes—built
expressly by the photographer using tins and pots—which
produce images that are blurred and create an unreal
atmosphere of disturbance and dreams.
BLANCA BERLÍN GALERÍA
BLANCA SOTO
CAMARA OSCURA
Jürgen Schadeberg
Bigas Luna
A fior di pelle (On the Surface)
Nanna Hänninen
Now is Now
Dates: 26 May – 28 June
Dates: 26 May – 16 July
Bigas Luna (Barcelona, 1946 – La Riera, 2013) is known
throughout the world for his cinematographic work. Nevertheless, he himself used to state that he came into the cinema through his previous initiation in art, in painting. This
exhibition—a series of twenty-four slides he took in 1964
and manipulated with liquids and other objects in 2012—is
an opportunity to observe a selection of his vast pictorial
production and to thus discover a part of this multidisciplinary artist’s until now unknown creation.
The starting point for this project by Nanna Hänninen
(Finland, 1973) is her interest in daily emotions and in the
experiences that, despite being unique for each human,
can be felt and shared by everyone. She deals with anxiety
and existentialist threats and explores the importance
of the present, as well as time itself and its relativity. The
result is a minimalist style aesthetic that liberates a great
associative space and confronts the spectator with their
own memories and experiences.
Dates: 26 May – 30 July
Jürgen Schadeberg (Germany, 1931) is one of the most
renowned photographers on the international scene.
His work has been present in important solo exhibitions
in places such as Cape Town, Dublin, New York, Berlin,
Budapest and Luxemburg. This showing chooses a series
of photographs taken in South Africa—mainly during the
apartheid period—, in the United Kingdom in the nineteen
sixties and seventies, and in Germany over several decades.
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OFF FESTIVAL MADRID
CERO
ESPACIO VALVERDE
FERNÁNDEZ-BRASO
Daniel Mayrit
Authorised images
Miguel Rosón Riestra
High Tide
Ouka Leele
Travellers from my Galaxy
Dates: 9 June – 22 September
Dates: 2 June – 30 July
Dates: 9 June – 30 July
The Organic Law of Citizen Security Protection came into
force a year ago now. Beneath this euphemism, this norm
generates an emptiness of representation in penalising
“unauthorised use of images or data of authorities or members of the Security Forces and Corps”. This work explores
different ways of filling that emptiness again through the
use of new techniques of capturing and diffusing images,
in an international context that tends towards the illegalising of protests and the invisibility of repression.
Pleamar project is carried out in the old fishermen’s neighbourhood of Cimadevilla, in Gijón. Miguel Rosón (Gijón,
1978) has centred his work on the walls painted in colours
by the municipal cleaning services in order to cover over
graffiti, on which the workers have intervened in order to
involuntarily generate mural abstract works. The showing
is articulated around a journey through three exhibition
spaces, by means of which the author reflects, among
other questions, on the nature of appearances, depth and
the surface.
“In this exhibition, I want to show the public that system
of mine that inhabits the universe, a set of stars that shine
in the images I have captured with my camera. A camera
obscura that only sees light and captures it, and along
with me constructs mirrors for us to look into […]. Come,
travellers, come in, fly, I invite you to get to know this school
for fliers”. With these words, Ouka Leele (Madrid, 1957)
proposes the spectator a visit to her personal “galaxy”, a
timeless journey, through all her times, to the universe of
the photographic compositions of her artistic career.
FERNANDO PRADILLA
FREIJO GALLERY
IVORYPRESS
Transversal Photography
Mónica Sánchez-Robles
Color of emotions
Chloe Dewe Mathews
Shot at Dawn
Dates: 28 May – 16 July
Dates: 23 May – 16 July
A person’s emotional state determines the way they perceive the world. Mónica Sánchez-Robles (Madrid, 1964)
investigates the relationship between colours and the eight
basic emotions identified in human beings, starting from
the carrying out of a test whose results are the basis for
her artistic work. This installation presents video works and
photographs that immerse the spectator into a vegetable
world in which the spaces of silence and meditation are
represented by settings from nature.
The British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews (United
Kingdom, 1982) has researched into several different
locations in the north of Europe in which thousands of
soldiers were executed for desertion and cowardice during
World War One. These shocking acts are the base for this
photographic project in which Mathews, through observation of the current landscape and in a very precise manner,
recreates the exact place and moment when those events
took place.
Dates: 26 May – 2 July
This exhibition brings together a set of works by over twenty Ibero-American artists. In it one can identify the several
different stylistic and thematic lines that have made up
photography within the general context of contemporary
art. The authors are presenting re-interpretations of issues
related to the landscape, the portrait, the city, architecture
and narrative, set out through investigative stances that
reflect upon matters to do with photographic practice as
pertinent as its objectivity, subjectivity, veracity and artifice.
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JORGE ALCOLEA
JOSE DE LA MANO
LA CAJA NEGRA
Abraham Calero
Dignus
Gerardo Vielba
Paris 1962
Dates: 26 May – 25 June
Dates: 26 June – 30 July
Adolfo Patiño. Adolfotógrafo
Anonymous painted photography
[Mexico] Life dreamt in colour
Abraham Calero (Madrid, 1976) works as if he were an archaeologist of long-forgotten relics, and with his creations
he returns dignity to objects that throughout successive
uses have lost the capacity to attract someone’s gaze.
He portrays things and old items that have lived better
lives before being replaced and forgotten; elderly people
who without any complexes show the passing of time, the
wounds of life. Dignus does not intend to show the final
outcome of the consumer object, but rather to dignify what
is photographed through the evoking of its memory.
Gerardo Vielba (Madrid, 1921-1992) is one of the most outstanding photographers on the Spanish scene, both due to
his visual work and to his writings. He was one of the main
driving forces in the university photographic movement,
from which emerged some of the most relevant figures on
today’s art scene. This project shows photographs that he
took in Paris in 1962, and is a homage not only to this great
photographer and portrayer of the city and its people, but
also to the eternally evocative city of Paris.
LA FÁBRICA
LA FIAMBRERA
LUCÍA MENDOZA
Cristina de Middel
Antipodesedopitna
Juan Pérez-Fajardo
All Access
Christian Voigt
Interior Landscapes
Dates: 26 May – 31 July
Dates: 3 June – 30 July
Dates: 28 May – 28 July
Cristina de Middel (Alicante, 1975) began the “Antipodes”
project in New Zealand in 2013. The photographer who
travels to the other side of the world doesn’t seem to
have any other option than to take photos of the majestic
surroundings in which he finds himself. In this sense, landscape photography does little justice to the landscape in
itself: it flattens; it takes away its dimensions and feelings.
This work attempts to return the depth to the landscape,
granting it confusion, and looking through two mirrors: that
of the camera and that which turns the shot around, placed
in front of the lens.
All Access brings together both the colour and black and
white graphic work of the musical photographer Juan
Pérez-Fajardo (Madrid, 1969) over several years. His camera has portrayed consecrated stars of the Spanish and
international music scene, as well as different bands and
personalities from the more underground scene, capturing
photographs in which artist and person are fused together.
His work is a witness to the recent history of music, and
has become a necessary vehicle to report on it.
Christian Voigt (Germany, 1961) has developed a language
that is capable of turning life scenes into stories. He introduces us the situation experienced as a stage where the
boundary between the real and the oneiric is especially
fragile, or he might make us feel that the harshest reality is
an everyday scene. Based on an overlap of thirty exposures of the same image, already used in the early twentieth century art, and editing images of great size, Voigt is
able to obtain an extraordinary impact with colors, lights,
shadows and contrasts in an overwhelming manner.
Dates: 9 June – 23 July
Two proposals share this exhibition space with a guiding
theme of the meaning of transvestism with which representation works. Adolfo Patiño (Mexico, 1954-2005)
started out in the world of photography in the nineteen
seventies. He created the groups “Peyote y la Compañía”
and “Grupo de Fotógrafos Independientes”. The second
showing is a compilation of painted photographs from the
19th and 20th centuries, which reveal the aesthetic codes
at the time and the techniques of manipulation of the
image.
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LUIS BURGOS
MAGDA BELLOTTI
MATERNA Y HERENCIA
Cano Erhardt
In Coney Island
Tete Álvarez
Displacements
Dates: 28 May – 31 July
Dates: 3 June –16 July
Alfonso Zubiaga
Chaos and Emptiness. Spaces of
Survival
Coney Island is the New York City beach and amusement
park par excellence. Many of the people who pass through
it do so in search of escape and to give vent to their yearnings for exhibitionism. In this project, Cano Erhardt (Bilbao,
1955) continues to show photography’s capacity to create
fictions, and even lies, showing a peculiarity of street
photography that fascinates him: the random quality of that
generation of fictions. In intending to achieve an instant
and static reproduction of life, the chance events of the
moment often produce unexpected results.
Starting from material found on the web, Desplazamientos
sets out a critical reflection on the status of the image in
contemporary society and its role in the forming of the public sphere. Using a strategy of accumulation and recycling,
Tete Álvarez (Cadiz, 1964) delves between the avalanche
of images that are generated in the communication society
in order to classify them, recompose them and grant them
with other meanings that subvert that apparently univocal
character with which these images are presented to us
every day.
MICHEL SOSKINE INC
MOISES PÉREZ DE ALBÉNIZ
MONDO GALERÍA
Joel-Peter Witkin
Basurama
Abundancia
Virgina Rota
Saudade
Dates: 28 May – 30 July
Dates: 1 – 25 June
Basurama is a group devoted to research, creation and
cultural and environmental production which centres its
area of study and activity on the productive processes,
the generation of waste that these imply and the creative
possibilities to which these situations give rise. This project
reflects on the concept of abundance in today’s capitalist
societies, and analyses cardboard as the best representative of its measuring. The invisible omnipresence of this
material represents the imitating of the consumption of
abundance in our way of living.
Virginia Rota (Malaga, 1989), the winner of NEXOFOTO
2016 competition, is presenting an exhibition full of solitude, nostalgia and longing. This is how the term “saudade” is generally defined, but only those who have lost
the most powerful aspect of their lives can know the real
strength of this word. It means what we are left with when
we become aware of the fact that what was our home will
never return. It means feeling so strongly outside of things
that it physically hurts. The true value is distorted; as one
has already known what is on top and now there is no
peace on which to rest.
Dates: 9 June – 30 July
For over thirty years Joel-Peter Witkin (United States of
America, 1939) has been pursuing his interest for the
phenomenology of violence, suffering and death. He
creates surrealistic compositions in which he questions
the preconceived notions of beauty. He shamelessly seeks
out desire in the grotesque and the sacred in the profane,
bringing us close to these subjects through unique, rejected bodies, directly presenting the deformity. This exhibition
shows recent works and some of his most well-known
works from the nineteen eighties and nineties.
Dates: 26 May – 14 June
Alfonso Zubiaga (Biscay, 1958) attempts to stage the relationship Europeans have with their habitat and show the
counterpoised universes that play a major role is the common space: the city, presented as a complex and multiplied
territory that is oppressive in its greatness; and the other
extreme, nature, in its most difficult form. Using a stratification and superimposing of layers, Zubiaga constructs
a metaphor for the environment in which Modern Europe
survives in the majority of cases.
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ODALYS
OGAMI PRESS
PILAR SIERRA
Transdiverse [photography, video art
and multimedia art from Venezuela]
Jesus Labandeira
When it still used to snow
Dates: 9 June – 14 July
Dates: 2 June – 22 July
Linarejos Moreno
Write, write in order to remember. You
only Understand what you destroy
Twelve Venezuelan artists whose work involves photography, video art and the electronic arts are presenting
previously unseen recent proposals. There is a remarkable
variety in their styles, given that many of them already have
a long career in the field of Venezuelan visual arts. It is
interesting to analyse the particular approaches that they
carry out around their usual subjects and when they relate
to Venezuela as transversal views that are idealised and
poetic, or, on the contrary, more direct and specific.
Childhood, absence and the time that slowly erases places
lived in provide the focus for this project in which Jesús
Labandeira (Madrid, 1963) delves into the landscape of
memory. Auras that are transformed into a new space of
identity through traditional processes like photo-engraving, which grant meaning to the semantic function of the
work. The author, in setting out the expression, abandons
rational factors based on consciousness and reason. He
thus generates reflective and irrational images existing in a
timeless world where time and space are mixed up.
PONCE + ROBLES
STANDARTE
TIEMPOS MODERNOS
Boa Mistura
My root is
Javier Marquerie Bueno
Madrid, how well you have resisted
Juan de Sande
Time watches from the shadows
Dates: 1 June – 16 July
Dates: 15 June – 15 July
Dates: 26 May – 31 July
The Boa Mistura group mainly develops its work in the
public space. They see their work as a tool for transforming
the street, intervening in it and creating links among people. This exhibition shows the project carried out for the
Twelfth Havana Art Biennial. The group used points that
are characteristic of El Romerillo, one of the most complex
neighbourhoods of Havana, in order to express the twenty-five lines of the poem No sé [I Don’t Know], by the Cuban
author Samuel Feijóo.
This is an interesting exhibition proposal in which Javier Marquerie (Madrid, 1969) counterpoises the view of
today’s prosperous, easy-going and consumer- driven
Madrid with that of the poor, destroyed and heartrending
Madrid of the Spanish Civil War. Each photograph in the
series is a collage that contains the first and last photogram of a reality configured over seventy-seven years, and
confronts realities in compositions that arouse discordant
feelings, ranging from horror and suffering to impact and
humour, dehumanising and ridiculing society.
Juan de Sande (Madrid, 1964) has a long career as an
artist. His apparently simple but technically very elaborate
photographs are falsely real, or, to state it in a different
manner, they construct false realities. This exhibition
deals with this direction: nothing is what it seems. In it the
two latest series carried out by de Sande are shown. The
first of these, “Algunos movimientos del todo innecesarios”, centres on impossible equilibriums, while “Y que los
salmones canten por las calles”, present a peculiar visual
game that is full of humour.
Dates: 1 June – 28 July
In this exhibition, which takes its title from a quotation by
Linarejos Moreno proposes a dialogue between artistic
and scientific processes in order to reveal their hermeneutics and epistemologies taking its central axis as the
destructive essay and its representation as a means of
acquisition of knowledge. That which generates questioning from the ecological and post-humanist viewpoint.
The showing stands as a seed for the exhibition Tabularia:
laboratorios de ciencia e imaginación which is exhibited in
parallel in the Madrid Royal Botanical Gardens.
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OFF FESTIVAL MADRID
TWIN GALLERY
UTOPIA PARKWAY
Valle Galera
It was hidden
Ignacio Evangelista
After Schengen
Dates: 9 June – 9 July
Dates: 10 June – 22 July
The work produced by Valle Galera (Jaén, 1980) revolves
around identity as a construction. She researches into the
archetype of man as a seducer, sketching him through
the repetition of similar poses, gestures and styles among
celebrities and unknown people, mixed together with
current portraits she takes of homosexuals in their sixties.
She tracks a confused and evocative generation that was
ahead of its time in living out a sexuality that was prohibited in the time of the Spanish dictator Franco, and which is
also criticised today by a society that desexualises its older
citizens.
In this project, the photographer Ignacio Evangelista (Valencia, 1965) travels through former border post between
several states in the European Union in order to discover
what has remained of them. After the Schengen Agreement, the majority of these places—which had previously
marked out the borders of the territories—are now abandoned, in a state of ruin and in a spatio-temporal limbo. The
images shown provoke great reflection at a time when the
European Union project is being strongly questioned.
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Professional Programmes
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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES. ALCOBENDAS PHOTOESPAÑA PIC.A
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES. ALCOBENDAS PHOTOESPAÑA PIC.A
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Discoveries PHE week
Porfolio Reviews and Seminars
Discoveries Week PHE. Campus PHE: The
creative image. With Michel Atavar
Venue: Alcobendas PHotoEspaña PIC.A. International School. Espacio Miguel Delibes. (Avenida
de la Magia, 3. Alcobendas)
Dates: 30 May – 3 June
Enrolment for activities on www.phe.es
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
Venue: Alcobendas PHotoEspaña PIC.A. International School. Espacio Miguel Delibes. (Avenida
de la Magia, 3. Alcobendas)
Dates: 30-31 May
Enrolment for activities on www.phe.es
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
With the support of Programa AC/E para la internacionalización de la Cultura Española
(PICE), Fundación Ankara, Instituto de las Industrias Culturales y las Artes de la Región
de Murcia, Embajada de los Países Bajos and Goethe Institut
The Discoveries PHE Week intends to create a space in which photographers can
show their work, receive advice and broaden their knowledge. To do this the Workshops Campus PHE are held, helping the participants to stimulate their creative
process. The Creative Image workshop is a course designed to help the participants
to be more creative and to broaden the resources of their professional lives. During
the sessions the students will work on developing their personality and professional
creativity with the help of techniques, exercises and practical methods.
For the second year, Discoveries PHE is widening its call and extending its programming into two sessions in order to bring together about two hundred photographers
and over forty Spanish and international experts, providing a viewing group that is
broader and more heterogeneous, and presenting a four-day programme of activities
including seminars and workshops.
Through its viewing team, the Discoveries PHE Week provides its participants with a
space to show their work to curators and publishers and in which they may contact
renowned professionals in the sector, explore new professional possibilities, improve
the presentation of their projects, discover current tendencies, make contact with
other photographers in order to get to know their working processes and methods and
broaden their professional networks.
Michael Atavar is an artist and creative consultant with a practice that mixes creativity,
business, art and psychology. He works solo and with companies in order to help solve
professional problems using creativity as a key. He has developed this process at the
Tate Modern and at the 1-2-1s School, among others.
Besides the portfolio viewings, the Discoveries PHE Week organises seminars on good
professional practice for the enrolled participants. To do this, the programme provides
daily seminars with experts such as Marc Prüst, Semiramis González, Juan Valbuena
and Ciara Hickey with the aim of exploring current issues in the photography sector,
discovering funding possibilities, group working or getting to know working methods.
The photographers Simon Roberts, Federico Clavarino and Manuel Zambrana will
present their work, and the new magazine Clavoardiendo will be a guest project.
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES / MURCIA. CENTRO PÁRRAGA
Discoveries week PHE
Campus PHE: Self Publish, Be happy. With
Bruno Ceschel
Porfolio Review in Murcia
Venue: Alcobendas PHotoEspaña PIC.A. International School. Espacio Miguel Delibes. (Avenida
de la Magia, 3. Alcobendas)
Dates: 2-3 June
Enrolment for activities on www.phe.es
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
Venue: Centro Párraga (Madre Elisa Oliver Molina; s/n, Murcia)
Dates: 13 – 14 June
Enrolment for activities on www.phe.es
Organized by: Instituto de las Industrias Culturales y las Artes de la Región de Murcia, Centro
Párraga and PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: the Institute for Cultural Industries and the Arts of Murcia and Párraga
Centre, PHotoEspaña, with the aim of further promoting photography in the region, has organized a new programme consisting in the viewing of portfolios.
In this programme, the students may join Bruno Ceschel, the founder of Self Publish,
Be Happy, in an intensive two-day workshop. People interested can design their own
photography book and will be able to use the necessary tools and the vision to become
the editor of their own publications. The sessions will show the different contemporary editorial “models”, ranging from the magazine to the traditional perfectly bound
photography book. The editing, the sequencing and the design will be debated both
from the theoretical and practical point of view, and distribution and commercialisation
options will be analysed for the finished works.
As a result of the viewings that took place in Párraga Centre last 13th and 14th May, five
finalists were selected by a number of expert professionals: Mónica Lozano (teacher, graphic editor and cultural manager specialized in contemporary photography),
Manuel Olveira (director of MUSAC, the Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art),
Paco Salinas (exhibition curator [NAVE KA], critic and publisher [Mestizo], director of
Photoencounters [2001-2011]), and Pilar Serra (director of the Galería Pilar Serra). The
winning photographers have been awarded a grant from the Murcia Institute for Cultural Industries and the Arts, which allows them to participate in the Discoveries PHE
Week, held in Madrid between 30th May and 3rd June, marking the official opening of
PHotoEspaña.
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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES / MADRID. CAIXAFORUM
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES / MADRID
An Unexpected Mosaic. Singularities of
European Photography. PHE Encounters
Trasatlántica PHE
Venue: Caixa Forum. (Paseo del Prado, 36, Madrid)
Dates: 8 – 10 June
Enrolment for activities on www.phe.es
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: CaixaForum
Organized by: Trasatlántica PHE, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo
– AECID y ACCIONA
In collaboration with: Lima Photo
The Central European House of Photography and PHotoEspaña, with the collaboration
of the Obra Social of “la Caixa”, are organising in CaixaForum Madrid a series of days
of reflection on determined aspects of European photography with the aim of dealing
with a series of subjects that have to do with their common history. Over three days
European photography from the twentieth century to today will be thoroughly analysed
through its most important authors.
There will also be an approaching of concrete subjects that have been at the centre
of the debate on photography throughout the century, such as discussion around
documentary and fictional photography, staged photography, subjective photography,
post-photography, the role of photography in World War II and the influence of memory
on contemporary photography.
These subjects will be present by European historians and experts, such as Vladimir
Birgus and Michal Kolecek (Czech Republic), Vaclav Maceck and Bohunka Koklesová
(Slovakia), Adam Mazur (Poland), Johan Swinnnen (Belgium), Emilia Tavares (Portugal),
Irina Chmyreva (Russia) and Jan Erik Lundstrom (Sweden), among others.
In 2008, PHotoEspaña created the Trasatlántica photography and visual arts forum
which has called upon Iberian-American photographers, researchers, critics and art
curators to participate in a broad range of activities such as encounters, publishing
workshops, showing of portfolios, exhibitions and competitions. It has organised
activities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, United States,
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and
Venezuela.
Trasatlántica PHE continues on in 2016 thanks to the support from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development-AECID and its Network of Cultural
Centres, as well as the collaboration of the Inter-American Development Bank-BID,
organising viewings of portfolios in Peru, within the context of Lima Photo, and in Panama, as a part of Fotoseptiembre. In addition, Trasatlántica will reach the continent of
Africa with a viewing of portfolios in Dakar. ACCIONA renews its support, participating
in the viewings in Lima and for the first time launching the ACCIONA “environment and
sustainability” Trasatlántica Award for photography.
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PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES. ALCOBENDAS PHOTOESPAÑA PIC.A
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
PIC.A PHotoEspaña International Centre
Alcobendas
PHotoEspaña Masters: Theory and artistic
projects
PIC.A PHotoEspaña International Centre Alcobendas is a centre for training in photography that has a broad teaching programme, covering the spectrum going from the
basic or amateur level to professional standard. PIC.A’s main premises is at the Espacio
Miguel Delibes in Alcobendas, where over four hundred students graduate in photography each year.
Venue: Alcobendas PHotoEspaña PIC.A. International School - Espacio Miguel Delibes (Avda.
de la Magia, 3. Alcobendas)
Enrolments from June 30th
Information: master@phe.es and www.phe.es
PIC.A provides an opportunity to develop basic and higher studies in photography,
culminating the formation with the realization of PHotoEspaña Masters in Photography.
The Master is a programme that grants the students theoretical preparation and the
tools for undertaking a professional career in this discipline.
Throughout the whole course, PIC.A organises several different activities: masters
classes open to the public, monographic workshops given by artists and specialists in
photography with an internationally-recognised career, professional seminars which go
in depth into fields such as publishing and management, as well as online courses.
The PHotoEspaña Masters: Theory and artistic projects draws from the experience of
its Festival to provide a complete training programme, designed particularly for those
people seeking to develop their personal artwork and to consolidate their activity in this
sector.
It serves as a framework for the production of new works and for the creation of an
international network of outstanding professionals. Students explore the theoretical
aspects of the image, and each of them produces a portfolio, an author’s book, an exhibition project and an audiovisual work.
The programme of studies is articulated around modules given by renowned professionals, such as Alberto García-Alix, Rafael Doctor, Horacio Fernández, Gerardo
Mosquera, Graciela Sacco o Noé Sendas, among others. The visits to artists’ studios,
as well as to art galleries, printers and art centres, complete the programme. The
course provides the necessary tools for the students to carry out their activity from the
creation to the promoting of their projects.
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Public Activities
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / MADRID
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / FUNDACIÓN CANAL. COMPETITION
PHotoEspaña – Community of Madrid Forum
From the selfie to the self-portrait. Long live
the self-portrait!
Dates: 6 June - 31 July
Diverse venues
For further information: www.phe.es
Organized by: Comunidad de Madrid y PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: Metro de Madrid
Venue: Fundación Canal (Mateo Inurria, 2. Madrid)
Period of participation: 9 June - 10 July
Award winner: 19 July
Participation: Instragram: #LargaVidaAlAutorretrato
Organized by: Fundación Canal and PHotoEspaña
The Community of Madrid and PHotoEspaña are organising a physical and virtual
space in which photographers and public will establish a direct relationship through
exhibitions, encounters, learning sessions and communication on social networks, and
in which it is possible to “Do”, “Speak”, “Listen” and “Be” with photography.
PHotoEspaña and the Fundación Canal are proposing setting aside the passion for
selfies for a moment and recovering the value and magic of self-portraits in the classic
photographic tradition. As a reference for this competition, the participants can use the
self-portraits by the photographer Vivian Maier, whose work can be visited in the exhibition Vivian Maier. Street Photographer which is organised by the Fundación Canal.
“Doing”. After an open call, in which Spanish authors and creators presented photography and visual arts projects, the Community of Madrid and PHotoEspaña have chosen
the four best works, which will be presented in short-term showings in the El Águila
exhibition hall.
“Speaking”. Authors and collectives can have a direct dialogue with the public with the
aim of providing a face-to-face exchange of experiences. The meetings will be held
one day a week in the gardens of the Canal de Isabel II Hall. Participating will be the
platforms: Piece of Cake. POC, NOPHOTO, Género y figura, 30 contemporáneos and
Daniel Mayrit.
“Listening”. Several of the most outstanding photography schools in Madrid will programme activities for the public with the aim of extending knowledge of photography to
sectors that are not specialised but which are interested in the medium. The five sessions
in the form of workshops will take place one day a week in the gardens of the Canal de
Isabel II Hall. The following schools will be collaborating: EFTI, IED, PIC.A, LENS and TAI.
Maier, always with a Rolleiflex around her neck, captured black and white photographs
of the architecture and street life of Chicago and New York in the second half of the
twentieth century.
In many of her images, Vivian herself took advantage of the elements of the city in order
to construct enigmatic, fascinating self-portraits. Following this line, the participants
will take up this creative approach as they take self-portraits in order to discover the
many possibilities of expression that the city and this photographic format offer. Along
with their self-portrait, each participant should also contribute a short tale or story in
order to contextualise the image.
“Being”. Eight Spanish and international photographers invited by PHotoEspaña and the
Community of Madrid will publish one image per day on Instagram around the idea of
Europe. At the end of the project there will be the creating of a virtual gallery-exhibition
with all the shots. The invited authors are: Kristine Nor, Laura El-Tantawy, Iñaki Domingo,
Juan Carlos Martínez, José Miguel, María Sánchez, Daniel Seljebo and Nicanor García.
The Madrid Metro will be supporting the project by diffusing the programming through
the advertising supports available in its over three hundred stations.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / FUNDACIÓN CANAL. WORKSHOPS
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / SAMSUNG COMPETITION
PHotoEspaña / Fundación Canal Saturdays
Workshops
Samsung Galaxy S7 Night PHotoMarathon
For children and young people between 5 and 15, grouped by age. Check availability by age.
Register In advance and limited in www.phe.es and talleres@phe.es
Venue: Fundación Canal
Price: 5 €
Calendar: Saturdays 11.06, 18.06, 25.06 y 02.07.2016
Hours: 11.30 – 13.30 h / 17.00 – 19.00 h
For further information: talleres@phe.es
Organized by: Fundación Canal and PHotoEspaña
Date: 24 June
Registration in advance in www.phe.es with an Instagram profile
Validation of enrolments at the beginning of the marathon at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre,
between 6 pm and 7 pm
Requirements: Carry a Smartphone or digital photo camera
For further information: www.phe.es
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
For the eighth consecutive year, the Fundación Canal and PHotoEspaña are presenting
“The PHotoEspaña / Fundación Canal Saturdays Workshops”, which will be held over
four Saturdays in the Foundation’s gardens, and which will allow children and young
people to become familiar with and get deeper knowledge of the practice of photography.
In this year’s programme the pupils who are currently familiar with the selfie may
discover the secrets of the classic self-portrait. As an activity prior to the workshop, all
the pupils enrolled will carry out a short visit to the exhibition Vivian Maier. Street Photographer which is taking place at the Fundación Canal, where they will get to know the
concepts with which they will later on work in a practical manner in the workshops.
Enrolment for this activity is strictly according to order of arrival.
The PHotoMarathon is the great playful activity of the Festival, the most popular party
in PHotoEspaña. It is an open door for the participation of photography lovers who
for one day run through the Madrid night with their Smartphones and digital cameras
looking for the best nocturnal images of the city based on a theme proposed by the
organisation.
The journey ends up in an open-air party on Friday the 24th of June, in which the participants can see their photos blown up on the giant screens of the Callao cinemas while
they share their photos uploaded to Instagram among their contacts and followers.
Also, a jury made up of several specialists in photography and a representative from
Samsung will choose the winners, who will receive the prizes on the same night in the
Plaza de Callao square. Finally, the public’s prize will be awarded for the photo in the
competition that received most “likes”.
Along with those participating, we will be inviting a selection of noteworthy photographers and instagrammers to, out of competition, show the functionalities of night
photography that the new Samsung Galaxy S7 camera possesses.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / PROGRAMME OF PROJECTIONS
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / PROGRAMME OF PROJECTIONS
In the evening. Open-air projections by
PHotoEspaña – Fundación Banco Sabadell
Photography in Europe. In and Out
Programme:
The Sphynx of Amelia St. Julien Nonnon
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid con Paseo del Prado
2 June: 21.00 – 23.00 h
Asalto. Daniel Canogar
Conde Duque Madrid
3 June: 21.00 – 23.00 h
Luz vulnerada. Javier Riera
Plaza de los Carros
4 June: 21.00 – 23.00 h
A Less Familiar History. Louise Mackenzie
Biblioteca Nacional de España
5 June: 21.00 – 23.00 h
Organized by: PHotoEspaña
Venue: Espacio Fundación Telefónica (C/ Fuencarral, 3, Madrid)
For further information: www.phe.es
Organized by: Fundación Telefónica and PHotoEspaña
In collaboration with: British Journal of Photography
PHotoEspaña has invited four visual artists to carry out several works for this programme, which presents a series of works projected on unusual supports located at
several different points in Madrid. Trees, façades of buildings and the urban structures
of some of the Festival’s most emblematic places become open-air exhibition sites,
providing the invited public and chance visitors with a stunning gallery of images.
For this occasion, Julien Nonnon reveals a sample of his work, which is essentially
articulated around interaction with architecture and urban elements; Daniel Canogar
presents an interactive projection following the guidelines of video-installation and public intervention; Javier Riera explores the relationships between nature and geometry
through light interventions on the landscape; and Louise Mackenzie shows her interest
in living matter and in relationships with the environment through a work that is based
on the creating of installations, sculptures, performances, sounds and projections.
The Telefónica Foundation and PHotoEspaña are organising a programme of projections by a broad selection of contemporary photographers that analyses the tendencies of photography in Europe through the viewpoint of the authors themselves.
British Journal of Photograpy, the photography magazine par excellence, is presenting Ones to Watch, a programme of projections that shows the work of sixteen photographers chosen from among the most outstanding works in the supplement that it
publishes each year devoted to the best emerging talents in the world of photography.
Accompanying the projections, a debate has been organised, moderated by the journalist Juan Peces, in which three artists will talk about their work and about the experiences they have had at the beginning of their careers.
At a further event there will be the presenting of a programme of projections that will
culminate in a conversation among four renowned Spanish photographers with long
careers, and who, in the middle of their careers, left Spain in search of a source of possibilities with greater prospects for their artistic and professional development.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / ADOBE WORKSHOP. COMPETITION
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / ONLINE COMPETITION
Competition Curators in Adobe Stock
The Ribera Spirit
Venue: Real Jardín Botánico (Plaza de Murillo, 2. Madrid)
Dates: 30 June
Participation: www.phe.es/adobe-stock; www.stock.adobe.com/contributor
Period of participation: 3 May - 10 June
Award winner: 20 June
For further information: www.phe.es
Organized by: D. O. Ribera del Duero and PHotoEspaña
PHotoEspaña and Adobe are organising two activities within the framework of the
Festival. On the June, 30 there will be a seminar held by a renowned prestigious professional designated by Adobe Stock who will present an approach to professionals in the
field of the image about the new products that are being developed.
The online competition Curators in Adobe Stock will be launched in the context of this
event, and will be open to participation by any member of the public. The challenge will
be to establish relationships between images through a photographic archive provided
by Adobe Stock, by means of which the users will be able to choose some of them and
relate them among each other in order to create a virtual visual gallery. The aim will be
to find the links among the different—in theory disconnected—images in order to establish theoretical and reflective discourses. Each participant should justify their choice
through a short text that will be uploaded to a microsite. Later on, a jury will select a
maximum of ten virtual galleries that will be published on the microsite. Three will be
chosen from among them to receive different awards presented by Adobe Stock.
The #EspírituRibera defines the philosophy of the wine cellars and wine producers of
the Ribera del Duero Designation of Origin, of its backing of the production of quality wines achieved through innovation, creativity, effort and observation of the latest
tendencies. This creative attitude is a source of inspiration when seeking quality and
excellence in wines. Photography is creativity, innovation, effort and quality: this is the
link that unites it with the wines with a Designation of Origin.
Thus, along with PHotoEspaña, it is launching the first “Ribera Spirit” photography competition. Participants may send photographs related to each of the following categories:
Oloribera, Coloribera and Saboribera [Scent of the Ribera region, Colour of the Ribera
region and Taste of the Ribera region]. Through these subjects, Ribera del Duero is
proposing a journey through the senses. Five images will be selected from each of
these to form an exhibition, and the three best photographs from each category will be
presented at other events that Ribera del Duero will hold in several different Spanish
cities.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / ACTIVITIES IN LA FÁBRICA
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / PHOTOWALK
PHotoBook Week
PhotoWalk Alcalá de Henares
Dates: 3 - 12 June
Venue: La Fábrica (Alameda, 9. Madrid)
For further information: www.phe.es
Dates: 8 - 9 July
Registration: 20 €
For further information: photowalk@phe.es / www.phe.es
Organized by: Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares and PHotoEspaña
La Fábrica is presenting PHotoBook Week, a programme of activities focused on the
photobook, which will bring together authors, critics and publishers in presentations of
editorial projects, workshops and book signings.
Among the participants in the PHotoBook Week are the authors of the latest publications by La Fábrica: Laia Abril, Carlos Alba, Cristina de Middel, Bernard Plossu and
Jesús Labandeira, will sign copies of their publications.
The event includes a photobook fair in which self-published photobooks will be on sale,
as well as new issues from publishers such as Mack, Xabier Barral, Pierre Von Kleist,
Steidl, Aperture, Thames & Hudson, Hatje Cantz, Damiani, Tate, Nazareli o Phaidon.
Also during the PHotoBook Week there will be awarding of the PHE Best Photography
Books of the Year Award.
For the first time in the Festival, PHotoEspaña and the Alcalá de Henares Council are
organising PHotoWalk PHE, a photographic experience in which fifteen previously
chosen photographers will have the opportunity to travel around and photographically
discover the interesting points of this city, a World heritage site and the birthplace of
Cervantes.
For this occasion, Julio César González, who has worked with the Nophoto group and
recently organised El diari indultat, project in Valencia, will accompany the participants
on a journey during which the group will be able to document the historical and cultural
heritage of Alcalá, exchange experiences about photographic processes and learn
working methods alongside.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / PHOTOWALK
PHotoWalk Lanzarote
Dates: 27 - 29 October
Registration: 20 €
For further information: photowalk@phe.es / www.phe.es
Organized by: Cabildo de Lanzarote and PHotoEspaña
For the fourth consecutive year, PHotoEspaña and the Lanzarote Town Council are organising PHotoWalk PHE, an experience in which the participants will delve deeper into
the field of photography and will carry out their own projects through the aid of Miguel
Ángel Tornero.
This activity, which takes place over three days in the form of a workshop, is aimed at
photographers of all types and with different experience, and in it they will be asked to
carry out a photographic project documenting the environment of Lanzarote, as well as
different challenges, the aim of which will be to create a coherent, representative and at
the same time multifaceted portrait of the island.
The workshop will end with an idea-sharing session with all the works, the selection
and publishing of them in order to manage to represent this particular view of the island
produced by a heterogeneous group of people guided by a particular point of view.
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PHE16 OFFICIAL AWARDS
PHE16 Official Awards
At each edition PHotoEspaña awards different prizes that acknowledge the best exhibitions in the Festival, the most outstanding publications of the year and the professional
career of consecrated and emerging Spanish and international photographers. The
prizes are awarded by juries made up of international specialists of renown.
PHotoEspaña Award. This award pays tribute to the professional career of a major
figure in the national or international photography world. Previous winners: Paz Errázuriz, Ramón Masats, Bernard Plossu, Alberto García-Alix, Thomas Ruff, Graciela Iturbide,
Malick Sidibé, Martin Parr, Robert Frank, Hiroshi Sugimoto, William Klein, William
Eggleston, Helena Almeida, Nan Goldin, Duane Michals, Chema Madoz, Luis González
Palma and Josef Koudelka.
Bartolome Ros Award for the best Spanish professional career in photography.
This award, granted by the legacy of Bartolomé Ros, acknowledges the contribution
of a Spanish figure to the development of photography in any of its fields, whether as a
curator, author, historian, critic or through any other direct link to the medium. Previous
winners: Colita, Gervasio Sánchez, Carlos Pérez-Siquier, Fundació Foto Colectania,
Chema Madoz, Chema Conesa, Isabel Muñoz, Ricard Terré, Marta Gili y Javier Vallhonrat (ex aequo), Alejandro Castellote, Librería Kowasa, Joan Fontcuberta, Alberto
García-Alix, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Ramón Masats, Cristina García Rodero and
Publio López Mondéjar
Discoveries PHE Award. This award is granted to the author of the best project presented in the portfolio reviews held in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. This award
grants the winner the production of an exhibition at the next edition of PHotoEspaña.
Previous winner: Yannis Karpouzis.
Best Photography Book of the Year Award. This award honors the best national and
international photography publications of the previous year as well as the most outstanding publisher. Previous winners were: in the National Category, Everybody Needs
Good Neighbours, by Arnau Blanch, published by RM and La Caixa and Illustrated People, by Thomas Mailaender, published by RVB Books and Archive of Modern Conflict in
the international category. The Outstanding Publishing House of the Year Award went
to AMC- Archive of Modern Conflict. Best Self-Published Photography Book has been
granted to PAIN, by Toni Amengual.
The exhibition The best photography books of the year may be visited until the month
of August at the National Library of Spain, where the winning books are exhibited along
with a selection of works that participated in the competition.
Revelation PHE Award. El Corte Inglés and PHotoEspaña recognize the oeuvre of a
Spanish photographer under age 35 whose work or publication has stood out during
the previous year. Each year, a new award winner is chosen through a process of
nomination by distinguished specialists in photography and the visual arts. Last year’s
awarded: Aleix Plademunt.
Off Festival Award. Each year PHotoEspaña acknowledges one of the galleries at the
Off Festival after assessing the layout of the exhibitions, the artistic value of the authors
and the works exhibited, as well as the effort made by the gallery in putting on a specific project for PHotoEspaña. A jury of experts chooses the gallery that has shown the
best exhibition in this section. Last year’s winner: Ponce + Robles, What was important
was in the line, not on the edge, by Irene Grau.
People’s Choice Award. PHotoEspaña and El País are calling a new edition of the
People’s Choice Award, in which festival visitors will choose their favourite exhibition
in the Official Section. The vote will take place via El País website. Last year’s winner:
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, held at the
Museo ICO.
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Alberto Anaut
Chairman
Director
María García Yelo
Head of press
Isabel Cisneros
Alberto Fesser
Vicechairman
General Coordinator
Ana Belén García Mula
International press
Laura Maure
Claude Bussac
General Director of Art and Festivals
Head of exhibitions
Ana Berruguete
Press office
Marina P. Villarreal
Exhibitions coordination
Maíra Villela
Administration
Verónica Martín
Rocío Soler
Lorena Gómez
Vanessa González
Isabel Prieto
Eva Sancho
Álvaro Matías
General Director of Publishing, Projects
and Communication
Agustín García Benavente
Administration General Director
Oliva María Rubio
Artistic Director and Director of the
PHotoEspaña Masters (PIC.A)
Luis Posada
Deputy director of Art and Festivals
Ana Morales
Deputy Manager of Art and Festivals
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Sonia Camino
Gabriela Navarro
Production
Leticia Díez
External relations and protocol
Gerardo Silva
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