Fundación MAPFRE presented its cultural program for 2023 in Madrid and Barcelona on 20 December.. Altogether, the visitor has a more complete vision of 20th century art and, in the case of photographers, 21st Anastasya Samoylova or Matthieu Pernot.
The year starts with ‘ in MadridLeonora Carrington. Revelation and Facundo de Zuviria. ‘Buenos Aires prints’ From 11 February it can be visited at Sala Recoletos (Paseo de Recoletos, 23).
Leonora Carrington. Revelation’Organized in collaboration with the ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst in Denmark, this is the first retrospective in Spain dedicated to this versatile and eclectic artist. Ahead of her time in her interest in ecology and women’s rights, Carrington developed a deep interest in a variety of subjects, including Celtic mythology, the world of magic and the occult, nature and the animal kingdom, which she deeply respected. psychology or Tibetan Buddhism; all of which are reflected in the paintings, drawings, sculptures and writings that he made throughout his life.
exposure Facundo de Zuviria It focuses on nearly 200 photos taken between 1982 and 2022. One of the most interesting names in the contemporary photography scene, the author has been developing his work for forty years. The result of his tireless wanderings in the city of Buenos Aires, his paintings present original and iconic views in which he concentrates the essential features of the Argentine metropolis. The artist wanders around her neighborhoods in search of pieces that reunite her, obsessed with what has earned her the nickname ‘image hunter’.
On his behalf, in KBr Barcelona photo center his work will be presented after passing through Madrid. Ilse Bing and that of the winner of the first edition ofKBr Photography Award’, Anastasia Samoylova
throughout his career Ilse Bing covered a wide variety of topics. The project includes 190 photographs and documentary material covering his entire life and work chronologically: his first reality-based footage shot in his hometown of Frankfurt; his trip to Paris, where he settled, received some of his most important orders for magazines such as Regards Le Monde Illustré or L’Illustration, where he exhibited in some of its most important galleries; The period when she was imprisoned in a concentration camp in the Pyrenees due to her marriage to the Jewish pianist Konrad Wolff; and finally, his subsequent exile in the United States. The documentary ‘Drei Fotografinnen’ will also be screened. [Tres fotógrafas]: Ilse Bing.
KBr photography award-winning project ‘Image Cities’ Anastasia Samoylovatakes place in different cities of the world and constitutes a visual examination of the increasingly tight integration between the photographic image and the urban environment. Samoylova takes a closer look at the role photography plays in creating this ideological gap between a presumed urban identity and the reality they portray.
It can be viewed in the Fundación MAPFRE halls on Paseo de Recoletos after the exhibition closes.
In addition to the Samoylova exhibition, you can enjoy the exhibition in Madrid in the summer in America. Louis StettnerHe devoted nearly seventy years of his life to photography. In 1947 the photographer moved to Paris because of the persecution of left-wing intellectuals during the McCarthyism era. His work, which connects these two cultures, incorporates elements of ‘Street photography’ and French humanist photography. He was educated at the New York School of the ‘Photo League’, trained with Sid Grossman, and was a very good friend of Weegee. In Paris, the young photographer met Brassaï, who was his mentor and introduced him to the Parisian photography community.
At the beginning of June, the Italian photographer’s exhibition in Barcelona Tina Modotti and an exhibition dedicated to the origins of the medium, Jules Ainaud.
He was born in northern Italy, Tina Modotti She soon immigrated to the United States, where she met Edward Weston in 1923, which would have a major impact on her career. That same year, they moved to Mexico, where Modotti had developed a work stemming from modernism for almost a decade, but was soon replaced by a different and personal perspective, a different perspective on life. His social sensitivity, deeply concerned with humankind, developed in parallel with his political militancy and activism within the Communist Party, where he met figures of the Mexican intelligentsia such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera or Frida Kahlo.
The ‘Tina Modotti’ exhibition takes a tour of this author’s entire career and brings together the largest set of photographs ever exhibited, but also showcases an important collection of documents attesting to her short and busy life.
on his behalf Jules Ainaud, is a hitherto practically unknown author, as his works were exhibited one hundred and fifty years after they were first seen in Barcelona. Ainaud has always worked for another, more famous photographer, Jean Laurent, who commissioned him to travel around Catalonia between August 1871 and July 1872, photographing the monuments and landscapes of the region. The exhibition focuses on this journey and tries to bring the Ainuad back to its proper place in the history of photography.
Finally, two exhibitions will open in Madrid in 2023. The first is about the sculptor medardo rosso20th century sculpture of their work, responding to a vision far removed from the ideas of the era in which they were created. Rosso has traditionally been classified as an impressionist sculptor for his interest in capturing the fleeting moment, but the exhibition shows how his will went much further and his work transcended the boundaries of this movement and brought up fundamental aspects for the development of sculpture. . The modernity of his work is based mainly on his radical understanding of sculptural plastic as the negation of matter and his desire to unite the object with the space surrounding it.
The second exhibition focuses on the work of the French photographer. Mathieu Pernot, one of the most outstanding writers of the current scene. In her photographs, Pernot presents motifs related to ethnic minorities, refugees, migrations or wars, as well as more personal issues, and combines documentary with foreign approaches to this genre. The urbanism of the environment, immigration, power, prison buildings, concentration camps creates a violence and tension that seems to have become the theme of his work. Everything in the margins is of interest to this artist, whose work often reveals the same people photographed over the years.
Will close with the year in Barcelona William EgglestonHe is considered the father of color photography. In the late 1970s, the artist achieved recognition of the medium as a form of expression worthy of display in art galleries and museums. His seemingly simple images are always attractive. Armed with his Leica, he photographed the suburbs of Memphis using high-precision 35mm black and white film, and has since shown particular zeal for capturing restaurants, home interiors, and people immersed in seemingly trivial or even banal situations.
The ‘William Eggleston’ exhibition is organized by C/O Berlin in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE.
In parallel, you can visit a new edition. KBr Alevi’23A project that emerged from the close collaboration between the KBr Fundación MAPFRE photography center and Grisart, Idep Barcelona, IEFC and Elisava, Faculty of Design and Engineering Barcelona, to introduce the next generation of photographers.
2024
The first project of 2024 in Madrid will revolve around the examination and presentation of Marc Chagall’s work in light of the political events that marked his life, such as the Russian revolution, exile or the Holocaust. The exhibition is based on important and unprecedented archival research that demonstrates the artist’s ethical commitment and offers us a new reading of his work.