Paper Landscapes
Territorios de papel: un viaje a traves de fotolibros (Paper landscapes: a journey through photobooks) is an exhibition that takes us on a journey, around Catalonia mainly, through photobooks. These photobooks are mostly contemporary, but some more historical ones, photobooks that started to establish Barcelona's image in the 1960s, are also revisited.
Barcelona is the starting point for this journey that will take us to its outlying districts, the Costa Brava, the coastline to the south, inland and finally leaving from the north, beyond its borders, into a cosmological space.
A journey and a story counted in kilometres as we go, the odometer indicating the presence of certain publications as we travel through the landscape. The photobooks can be consulted in the following pages of the exhibition, grouped according to the distances it counts.
Each photobook can be seen through videos or other resources that make the immediate experience of the book more generally accessible. There is also a brief technical description and an explanatory text, either by the authors themselves, or by other associated colleagues, but present within the definition of the world of books.
I wish you a good journey through these paper landscapes as you loose yourself amongst the pages of time.
PEDRO TORRES
HIBERTICER
Hiberticer is an artistic project that takes its lead from Catalunya Visió, a collection of books of photographs which featured the entire territory of Catalonia in 1967, with special focus on the reality of the day. Terra-lab.cat, awarded the 2016 Lluís Carulla Prize, was the collective brainchild of the photographer, designer and editor Ignasi López, the poet, essayist and peddler of ideas Vicenç Altaió, the graphic designer and professor Sergi Opisso, and the photographer, editor and teacher Román Yñán. In the words of Vicenç Altaió: “Terra-lab.cat brought to life the discussion and creation of the concept of landscape and territory, with a team of artists, thinkers and photographers all born before 1968. Landscape is a combination of representation, of transformation of experience and emotion. This is culture.”
The display on offer at the Can Mario Museum, one of several that make up this project, aims to refresh our view of territory and landscape by means of a dialogue between two photographers with extensive careers - Salvi Danés and Rita Puig-Serra - and the artist David Bestué who, on this occasion, acts as thinker and writer.
Blackcelona
La Galería Paula Alonso de Madrid presenta la exposición individual "Blackcelona" del artista Salvi Danés. En esta ocasión con la colaboración de la escritora Jenn Díaz. Blackcelona es un canto a la ciudad, a super aspecto morfológico más oscuro. La muestra está incluida en el festival PHotoEspaña.
“Vine a esta ciudad porque me dijeron que en esta ciudad vive mi padre. No lo encuentro, a menos que mi padre sea un padre sucio, puesto que esta ciudad es sucia de una suciedad impermeable —que no puede eliminarse. Vine a buscar a mi padre por orden de mi madre, pero aquí no hay nadie a quien yo pueda preguntar. Ésta es la ciudad áspera y tirana que me advirtieron, pero no les creí, por eso vine a buscar a mi padre y pienso que si de verdad mi padre hubiera venido aquí, se habría marchado tarde o temprano”./ Jenn Díaz.
Galería Paula Alonso. 'Blackcelona'. C/Lope de Vega 29. Madrid. PhotoEspaña.
Residence Wroclaw (AIR Wro)
AIR Wro es un programa de residencias artísticas cuyo objetivo es apoyar y promover las actividades de personas creadoras que trabajan en los ámbitos de la cultura y el arte interesadas en colaborar con comunidades locales y establecer relaciones culturales internacionales. El programa apoya a artistas que realicen proyectos sobre el concepto de identidad y cultura urbanas, ya que su fin último es promover la mediación y facilitar la búsqueda de buenas prácticas y soluciones para la ciudad moderna.
