{"id":765,"date":"2013-06-13T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/?p=765"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T14:27:21","slug":"my-guide-to-photoespana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.esmadrid.com\/blog\/en\/2013\/06\/13\/my-guide-to-photoespana\/","title":{"rendered":"My guide to PHotoEspa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harry Callahan. Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago<\/em>, 1953
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Cortes\u00eda Pace\/MacGill Gallery, New York \u00a9 The Estate of Harry Callahan<\/p><\/div>\n

Once again this June\u00a0PHotoEspa<\/strong>\u00f1<\/strong>a<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0returns to Madrid with so many fascinating exhibitions it’s hard not to fall prey to Stendhal’s syndrome. Dates: 5 June to 28 July. Place: all over the city. Here’s a list of 10 shows I’ll be sure not to miss.<\/p>\n

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Avant-garde classics:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fine Arts Circle is hosting two exhibitions that best highlight the theme of this year’s edition of the festival:\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Body. Eros and Politics\u201d<\/strong>. Woman. The feminist avant-garde<\/em>\u00a0of the 1970s<\/em><\/a>, features works by Ana Mendieta, Sanja Ivekovic, Helena Almeida, Esther Ferrer, Birgit J\u00fcrgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman and others, and examines the oeuvre of a generation of women who have used conceptual art to explore the political dimension of their bodies. Meanwhile,\u00a0He, She, It. Dialogues between<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Harry Callahan and<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Edward Weston<\/em><\/a>\u00a0takes a new look at the female anatomy through the eyes of two of the most representative figures in the world of pure photography, free from erotic stereotypes. And for a clue to the source of this formal clarity of the American masters, this edition of PhotoEspa\u00f1a also includes a retrospective exhibition on the\u00a0Modernist Nudes<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>of Franti\u0161ek Drtikol, on display at the National Engraving Centre, which reveals the influence of the historic avant-garde movements of Cubism and Futurism.<\/p>\n

Portraits of time:<\/strong><\/p>\n

These small shows could easily go unnoticed, and yet they are undoubtedly the most poignant of the whole festival. They feature photographs conceived as fossils of another era, which illustrate the passing of time with uncanny precision. The L\u00e1zaro Galdiano Museum hosts the Taxonomy of Chaos,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0with portraits and landscapes from the Rafael Doctor Roncero collection by Nadar, Disderi, Clifford, Pipilotti Rist, Cristina Garc\u00eda Rodero and David Hilliard, and charts the different ways in which photographers have viewed the body through the ages. Doctor Roncero himself will be on hand for the duration of the exhibition to personally attend to visitors. Meanwhile at the Raquel Ponce Gallery, Ignacio Navas revives the memory of his aunt through a series of photos from the family album. In\u00a0Yolanda<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>this young artist tells a harrowing but true story that reflects the values and ideals of the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n

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Mark Shaw. Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy y Jacqueline Kennedy en Hyannis Port<\/em>, 1959. \u00a9 Mark Shaw \/ mptvimages.com<\/p><\/div>\n

The intimacy of the famous<\/strong><\/p>\n

The photographs by Mark Shaw at Loewe’s on Calle Serrano, and by Lawrence Schiller at the Mondo Gallery focus on very specific moments in the lives of the Kennedy family and Marilyn Monroe respectively. The two artists had access to both the public personas and private lives of these American icons.\u00a0The Kennedys<\/em><\/a>\u00a0contains unpublished photos of the family, while\u00a0Marilyn and Me and More. America and the 1960s<\/em><\/a>\u00a0features nude images of the actress that have never previously been seen in Spain.<\/p>\n

The more radical shows<\/strong><\/p>\n

For audiences looking for more radical fare, the exhibition\u00a0Pierre Molinier. Tempus fugit<\/em><\/a>\u00a0at the Guillermo de Osma Gallery contains several self-portraits of the artist as a transvestite, and explores the idea of self-eroticism. This same theme also underpins\u00a0Flower Paradise<\/em><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0the exhibition of still lifes by Nobuyoshi Araki that opens the newly refurbished La F\u00e1brica Gallery, now with a restaurant and more books. Finally, the exhibition Fauxtographies<\/em><\/a>, not part of PhotoEspa\u00f1a but held concurrently with the festival, takes a look at one of the fundamental issues in photography since the digital revolution. The curator Carlos Delgado Mayordomo has compiled a collection of works by David Trullo which, in the guise of real documents of false facts, question the ontology of the image.<\/p>\n

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David Trullo, Paul \u00c9luard, Louis Aragon, Andr\u00e9 Breton, Robert Desnos and Tristan Tzara, Seconds Before Crashing into the Bauhaus Building, Weimar, 20 May 1924.<\/em>\u00a0And\u00a0Florence Stoker Trying Hand Shadows on a Rainy Day, Kildare Street, Dublin, 20 April 1912<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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