Photographs from the IVAM collection under the prism of Enric Mira

A selection of examples 62 works by 31 artistsrecommends New readings in IVAM photography collectionsWhile claiming that the medium of photography is a tool of creation new narratives. Related issues body and identity, memory and historypublic space or its role media and phenomenon mass consumptionIn the process of media hybridization, it has permeated artistic approaches that combine photography as an expressive language, code or document.

since 1950With the date set as the starting point, the IVAM collection includes a range of outstanding works and authors, from new to documentary. Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander; Productions of pop and post-pop art Baldessari or Prince; different trends of conceptual art and action art Fulton or Valie Export; with the subject of the file human; The visual power of the new German objectivity rufflenarrative strategies Gordon and Wearing, among others. To this array of international names we must also add the names of the following important Spanish writers: Soto or Valldoseraand from the Valencia region Look at the Bernabeu or Navarrete, among others. Names that show the diversity and richness of IVAM photography collections.

Enric Mira Pastor

Doctor of Philosophy and Education Sciences by University of Valencia Professor from the University of Alicante In the department Communication and Social Psychology. He has management experience as the Deputy Dean of CC Faculty. He served as the director of the Department of Economics and Business Administration (2006-2012) and the Department of Communication and Social Psychology (2012-2018). is Member of the Valencian Association of Art Critics (since 1984). Member of Photograph Collection Advisory Commission of the University Museum of Alicante (since 1998). He received VI in 1994. Espais Art Criticism Award.

He published his books The photographic avant-garde in Spain of the seventies (1991), Alcalácanales. The artistic language of electrography (2000) and Ana Teresa Ortega. Photo sculptures and installations (2006). He also wrote chapters in books. Commodity and spectacle: a theoretical perspective on the plastic arts as a cultural industry (2009), Snapshots of photo theory (2009), Debates on mass culture. A critical anthology of the interwar period (2012), Comparative methodologies and comparative literature (2012), Journalistic communication and new challenges (2018) and Alicante’s modernization paths since 1950 (2020). He has written articles on the theory and history of photography for different specialized media and academic journals. Cimal, Lápiz, Fotovision, Canelobre, Valencian Art Archive, History and Social Communication, Photocinema, Art, Individual and Society and Concrete. On image creation and theory. Prospective and trends in communication in the 21st century (2013), No. 65 edition of Canelobre magazine, A monograph on image, design and communication in Alicante: 1975-2015 (2015) and No. He coordinated the printing of 8 books. Concrete magazine. On image making and theory (2016). He is the author of numerous texts included in catalogs for both individual and collective art exhibitions of Spanish authors. Ana Teresa Ortega, Pablo Genovés, Mira Bernabeu, Tommy Ceballos, Óscar Molina, Pepe Calvo, Cayetano Ferrández, Jesús Rivera, Jesús Segura, Rosa y Bleda and Luis Gordillo.

Curated exhibitions Jesus Rivera. In front of empty spaces (2012) Juan Gil Albert, at the Cultural Institute of Alicante José Gallego. fragility of light (2015), Alicante is rolling. 1902-2014 (2016), Lido Rico. Unbalanced (2016), Ana T. Ortega. Silenced cartography (2016), Narratives in the cracks of space and time (2018). Cayetano Ferrández. discontinuous (2109) all Alicante University Museum. He has collaborated with different art and cultural institutions such as Center de Cultura del Carme, IVAM, Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert, MACBA (Barcelona), Centro Párraga (Murcia), Canal Isabel II (Madrid), UIMP (Santander). ) and CICUS-University of Seville.