Mondo Gallery will host a personal exhibition by enigmatic photographer Javier Porto from January 14 to February 7. This artist was a connection point between those mythical ones of New York and Madrid in times when Andy Warhol and Pedro Almodóvar had busy lives.
Grace Jones, Alaska, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlos Berlanga. Javier Porto (Madrid, 1960) photos are today like a historical document of some period in which destroy the History seemed to be the most important thing at that time. They are 25 photos in which you can find similarities, distances and connections between these two cities that have always love or reject, attracted or envied each other like it was about a love story.
Getting rid of past time by creating a new present time seemed to be the standard that the post modernity built at disjointed steps. The early 1980s are now so far away; however, it may be the beginning of this current calm in which the show seems to be everyday, seated at the table every morning.
About Javier Porto
While photographing Madrid, where Almodovar, Nacha Pop, Favio McNamara and Jaime Urrutia belong to, Javier Porto met Robert Mapplethorpe at the Fernando Vijande Gallery. He traveled to New York to work with him as his assistant. There, Porto became familiar with the New York City, its figures such as Susan Sontag, Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.
This has allowed him to be part, keeping the tacit manner he prefers, of situations that today seem to be part of urban fables and however (and despite the passage of time) they continue playing the main role in the current cultural context reinventing itself in a cyclical manner.
Source: hoyesarte.com
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