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Faces of PHOTOESPAÑA
11May
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Faces of PHOTOESPAÑA

The 14th edition of PhotoEspaña International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts will be held from June 1 to July 24, with venues in Madrid, Cuenca, Alcala de Henares and Lisbon; and 370 artists from 55 countries are expected to attend.

 

The expositive program, organized following the concept Interfaces. Retrato y comunicación (Interfaces. Portrait and communication), a proposal by Cuban art critic and curator Gerardo Mosquera, general commissioner of PHotoEspaña for the next three editions of the Festival, will offer a program including 68 exhibitions: 21 in the Official Section, 6 in OpenPHoto, 9 in other halls and 32 in the Festival Off, in 61 venues among museums, galleries, art centers and exhibition halls.

 

PHotoEspaña counts this year with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Community of Madrid and Madrid’s City Hall, as well as over sixty foundations, companies, embassies, cultural centers and museums, incorporating Loewe, CaixaForum Madrid, the National Archaeological Museum and Samsung.

 

Included among the scheduled exhibitions regarding to faces, main carrier of people’s identity: Face Contact, the great collective exhibition of PHE11 (Fernan Gomez Theater. Art Center/Santander Bank Foundation); 1000 caras / 0 caras / 1 rostro. Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Frank Montero Collado, a production Telephonic Foundation (Alcalá 31 hall of Madrid Community); El poder de la duda, commissioned by Hou Hanru, over 50 works among pictures and video installations created by 16 artists from eleven countries (MUICO. Collections Museum ICO); Retratos de Fayum + Adrian Paci: sin futuro visible, with portraits of Fayum dating from 1st and 3rd centuries B.C. National Archaeological Museum); Ron Galella. Paparazzo Extraordinaire!, anthological with more than 100 pictures taken by the most famous and controversial paparazzi from the 20th century (Fine Arts Circle and Loewe); Cara al tiempo, reflection on age, aging and physical evolution through pictures and video installations created by five contemporary artists (Esther Ferrer, Peter Forgacs, Pere Formiguera, Lucas Sâmaras and Kan Xuan, at the Royal Botanic Garden -CSIC); Una imagen para la memoria: la carte de visite, putting together 120 pictures (cartes de visite) and three albums from the 19th century that belonged to famous novelist and writer Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (Lazaro Galdiano Foundation, in collaboration with La Caixa Social Work and the General Deputy Office of Spain’s Cultural Heritage Institute from the Ministry of Culture); Un mundo feliz. La ciudad de Panama en ojos de Carlos Endara(Casa de America); and Cien veces Nguyen, by Alfredo Jaar (Museu Colecção Berardo from Lisbon).

 

Other non-registered in the theme section are included. Cervantes Institute, for instance, presents Peso y levedad. Fotografía latinoamericana, entre el humanismo y la violencia, a selection of 15 participants out of the viewing of files held in Managua and Cartagena de Indias during Transatlantic PHotoEspaña. Or CaixaForum Madrid, with three exhibitions: Construir la Revolucion. Arte y arquitectura en Rusia, 1915-1935; Un mundo flotante. Fotografias de Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), and Haiti, 34 segundos despues.

 

Also participating in the Official Section of PHotoEspaña the commissioners Rosina Cazali, Jean-François Chougnet, Martine d'Astier de la Vigerie, Hou Hanru, Hélène Lassalle, Jean Marchetti, Tania Pardo, Guillaume Pazat, Francisco Rey, Jorge Ribalta, Sandra Rocha, Florian Rodari, Adrienne Samos, Mary Ann Stevens, Anya Stonelake, OanaT?nase, Laura Terre, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Maria Wills, Margit Zuckriegl, Juan Antonio Yeves Andres and Juan Miguel Sanchez Vigil.

 

This is the fifth year in a row that Cuenca participates with expositive proposal of embassies and cultural institutes from Austria, France, Lithuania, Portugal and Rumania, as well as offering a didactic program with activities for young students, lessons and guided visits. A work in progress will be carried out as innovation in which a photographer will directly work in the city and the result (in images) will be showcased along with the exhibitions.

 

Further information: www.phe.es