Art Director Centre Cultural De La Fundacio La Caixa
The Managing director of Culture and Scientific Divulgation Department of the "la Caixa" Foundation, Ignasi Miró, and the curator Florian Ebner presented this Tuesday at CaixaForum Madrid the exhibition "Camera and City. Urban life in photography and film". This is the first exhibition to come equally a issue of the agreement signed in July 2019 between the "la Caixa" Foundation and the Pompidou Middle to collaborate in the system of joint exhibitions until 2024.
Every bit part of its cultural program, the "la Caixa" Foundation pays particular attention to the most contemporary artistic expressions, those of the 20th and 21st centuries. Through its exhibitions on film and photography, the entity aims to prove the influence of images on contemporary sensitivity and to highlight the role of the cracking visual creators of the 20th century in how nosotros meet the world. To this end, it has organised exhibitions dedicated to the keen names of photography, such as Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Eugène Atget, Robert Doisneau, William Klein, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Willy Ronis, Philippe Halsman and Robert Capa.
Now, the "la Caixa" Foundation is taking another step forward with this new project, together with the Pompidou Eye, a reference point in mod and contemporary art and holder of one of the most of import photography collections in Europe. The exhibition "Camera and City" explores the intense relationship that photographers and filmmakers have maintained with the modern metropolis throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
The streets, the compages and the inhabitants of the cities accept been seen through the lens of the camera from the very moment when photography was invented. In fact, photography and cinema evolve in parallel to the modernistic urban center and end upwardly acting equally straight testimonies of its transformation and of the virtually transcendental moments of its social, political, economic, urban and architectural history. Photographers and filmmakers have created a whole visual imaginary, both fixed and moving, of the modern metropolis, where more than one-half of the globe'south population now lives.
The exhibition is curated past Florian Ebner, head of the Pompidou Centre'southward Photography Department, with the collaboration of Marta Dahó, medico in Art History, researcher and teacher, who has advised on the choice of the pieces from the Castilian collections.
With 259 works past 81 artists, the exhibition offers a historical and thematic overview on the history of urban photography through photographs, films, videos and printed material covering almost a century, from the 1910s to the starting time of 2010, too as a new area that includes current works related to the current wellness crisis. However, this tour does not aim to exist simply a history of urban photography, just as well a visual essay on the subject, which intersects with the profound social and urban transformations of cities.
The city is seen as a stage, playful or political, with its inhabitants as actors, in a long history of expansion and reject in which there have been moments of euphoria, loneliness, melancholy and revolt. The plays contain a theatrical dimension: performance, in an artistic sense, and participation, in a political sense.
Some of the crucial names in the international photographic bailiwick, such as László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Robert Frank, Robert Doisneau, Diane Arbus, Margaret Michaelis, André Kertész, Alexandre Rocthenko and Lee Friedlander, are participating in the exhibition. Spanish photography dialogues on equal terms with the international works of authors such every bit Francesc Català-Roca, Leopoldo Pomés, Pilar Aymerich, Anna Malagrida, Agustí Centelles, Carlos Pérez de Rozas, Manel Armengol, Josep Brangulí, Joan Colom, Jorge Ribalta, Xavier Ribas and Francesc Torres.
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