Casa E’s schedule for this year comes to an end with a new version of Muchedumbre (Crowd), a proposal that has been previously showcased in France and Santiago de Chile by famous artist and photographer Jorge Brantmayer.
Like many of his contemporary colleagues, Brantmayerexhibits big black-and-white portraits of anonymous inhabitants of the city. The display takes place within the framework of 2012 Valparaiso International Photography Festival (FIFV).
Muchedumbreis “an open photographic archive that is in constant exhibition; a work in progress that tries to capture and document the imperceptible relations and social and cultural differences among the inhabitants of Santiago. It looks forward to discovering, through a detailed and sensitive photographic portrait, the stories, states of mind and problems of each citizen captured by the camera”, the artist has expressed.
The project was showcased in 2011 in five spaces of Bayonne, France. Afterwards –in January 2012, during Teatro a Mil Festival– the exhibition was displayed at the hall of Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center (GAM). 96 portraits were printed for that event and 900 pictures were screened as part of a huge projection.
“The metaphoric objective is to have them all in front of the lens: artists, citizens, blind people, public officers, sick people, sexual workers, beauty queens, poets, house consultants, different professionals, academicians, beggar, politicians and army men, communicators, people devoted to the spirituality and religion, environmentalists, students, firemen, boy scouts, doctors, paramedics and people that look after other people. The face of each person is what catches my eye: I need an accurate description of their skin, hair, eyes and clothes details. Those elements not only speak about their micro history and biographic evolution, but also about their role within the country’s social and cultural history. Each photographic session is an experience of information and emotion exchange. Each photographic moment represents a scene of a documentary in which I watch and I’m watched”, he noted.
Jorge Brantmayer (Santiago, 1954) graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Chile and studied professional photography at the Academy of Photo Art in Santiago. Professionally speaking, in the area of visual arts, he plays a leading role as his studio is used by most of the artists and galleries to showcase works.
The exhibition will be open to the public through December 30.
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Source: Press release
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