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XIX International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts Press Kit Press Chief Isabel Cisneros T. + 34 91 298 55 11 [email protected] International Press Officer Laura Maure T. +34 647 458 776 [email protected] Press Officer Marina P. Villarreal T. +34 91 298 55 09 [email protected] 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 8 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? 9 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 10 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 11 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. 12 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 13 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 14 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 15 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 16 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. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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. 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 24 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 25 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. 26 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 27 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. 28 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 29 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. 30 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 31 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 32 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. 33 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 34 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. 35 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 36 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 37 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 38 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 39 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 40 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 41 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 42 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 43 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 44 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 45 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 46 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 47 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 48 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 49 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 50 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 51 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 52 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 53 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 54 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 55 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 56 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 57 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 58 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 59 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 60 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 61 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 62 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 64 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 65 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. 67 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. 68 OFF FESTIVAL MADRID 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. 69 OFF FESTIVAL MADRID 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. 70 OFF FESTIVAL MADRID 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. 71 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. 72 Professional Programmes 73 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. 74 PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMES. ALCOBENDAS PHOTOESPAÑA PIC.A 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. 75 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. 76 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: [email protected] 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. 77 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. 79 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 [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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. 80 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. 81 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. 82 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: [email protected] / 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. 83 PUBLIC ACTIVITIES / PHOTOWALK PHotoWalk Lanzarote Dates: 27 - 29 October Registration: 20 € For further information: [email protected] / 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. 84 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. 85 CREDITS 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 La Fábrica Verónica, 13 28014 Madrid Tel + 34 91 360 13 20 [email protected] www.lafabrica.com Educational and Professional Programmes Sonia Camino Gabriela Navarro Production Leticia Díez External relations and protocol Gerardo Silva Design gráfica futura
