washingtonwithin the scope of the target five Spanish photography professionals. Well DC.es | Five Spanish Photographers’ Look at Washington DC, exposure recently opened in the former Ambassadors’ Residence in the Spanish capital United States of AmericaParticipated with the names of Alicante artist Rosell Meseguer (Orihuela, 1976) Paula Anta, Juan Baraja, Nicolás Combarro and Jesús Madriñán.
If five writers Former scholarship holders from the Royal Academy of Spain in Romean institution that celebrates 150th anniversary With this exhibition accompanied by his book DC.es, Created by Factory and was presented in Madrid a few days ago. In both projects See the political capital of the world through these five artists who use photography and current A different image of Washingtontalking about different aspects of the city and the city itself Personality of each writer approaching it through photography.
In the case of Rosell Meseguer, he He describes this city with its plants and melts into his project botany and political power. City of Power. City of Trees [Ciudad de poder. Ciudad de árboles] A herbarium for Washington It is the name of the series created by a woman from Alicante who collects and redefines various plants growing in the city and then transfers them to images made with cyanotype.
From symbolic ritual where every U.S. president has planted a tree at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. [la Casa Blanca]Meseguer shows the relationship between the presidents of the United States and the factories. combination of botanical and political power.
“Washington was imagined and conceived by the French engineer Pierre L’Enfant. L’Enfant’s project was the first to plan parks and tree plantingis the root How can the politics, history, science, art or society of a country be explained with its trees, flowers and plants?explains the artist, explaining that he first acquired a book on the botany of the city, which is very rich in species from different continents, and then collecting and re-identifying each plant until you can make your own herbariumnot yet completed.
They appear capitol oak leavesconiferous and Arlington Cemetery PinesSaucer Magnolia White House, flora Watergate Building or cherry blossoms tidal basinA gift from Japan to the United States before World War II.
The artist involved in this work comments, “History, power and politics are themes that I have developed in all my projects, and I have also worked on herbaria before. It is very natural for me to continue these themes and make herbaria again.” Uses photography with cyanotype techniqueis a photographic process that offers a monochrome negative print. “I’ve been making cyanotypes since ’96. And for this project I established an analog laboratory “In the apartment I rented in Washington to do the work there,” says Meseguer, who realized a project with this project. discretion “I go back to botanist and photographer Anna Atkins, who wrote the first book on seaweed photography with this technique, and to the first herbarium I built on Mediterranean plants when they gave me a scholarship from the Spanish Academy in Rome in 2005.”
The exhibition, which will remain in Washington until March, displays seven of the twenty cyanotypes he made and a series of black-and-white photograms of other plants. According to that, “The delicacy of the cyanotypes contrasts with the power of their location.”