"Mares de Portugal" exhibition by Luis Vioque

Blanca Berlín presents "Mares de Portugal" exhibition by Luis Vioque at the number 2 space parallel to "El paisaje revisitado". This exhibition is composed of a selection of scenes related to the Portuguese costal landscape that this photographer from Madrid captured in 1996 and reflected through his characteristic panoramic format.

Mares de Portugal by Josep Vicent Monzó

This is not the first time that Luis Vioque travels to Portugal to find the right moments to take a good look. In 1992, the magic city of Lisboa was chosen to capture its light through simple and enigmatic images evoking its poetic recalls.

These were his first attempts outside Madrid, his usual environment, where the photographer’s look was shaping a way towards new horizons. They were works in which his concern does not get away from his optimal influences related to his training period and they helped him to find a peculiar way to see by realizing that his work does not depends on the importance of the object he is looking at but the intensity with which he decides to share every living moment. His poetic art outstandingly develops.

His new statements are changed in small and large rectangular papers where the captured scenes have an apparent natural manner. They are situations throughout a constant journey through his known landscapes where he finds the expected moment to take pictures. He does not need to get away too much from his home as of 1996, since Louis Vioque only partially dedicates to passionate writing with the light an in his constant excursions, he finds short but intense experiences he increase them when he travels through the Castilla’s  plains, the Mediterranean’s coats, the Minorca island or the Austurian North. The viewer look goes crazy about his tiny finds, moving his or her conscience towards the situation related to that great world around us and welcome us with such a tenderness and magic benevolence.

It is not a casual thing that the viewer gets this warmly welcome distant from that boring and nostalgic recall to get close to a solidarity union with the observed scene.  This kind of experience transmits Luis Vioque’s character with accuracy. It is not about a false feeling following the prevailing trends, which on one side, they insist on showing great and eloquent events and on the other they open their doors to the privacy. That reflects a true concern that does not need theoretical statements of great importance, but a great knowledge about History, and not only about photography. It is a knowledge getting back the landscape tradition with a great element related to modernity and placing it among the artists who are aware of their personal commitment before the situation we are facing in this border regarding to the change of millennium.

From the very beginning in this new stage, in his journey through the Iberian Peninsula, he had to visit the Portuguese coast once again to give a new look. The right decision to travel through the Mares de Portugal began in May, 2001, starting from Oporto to the South. A second travel he made in 2003, from Tuy until Ayamonte allow us to contemplate a new and exquisite selection of these beautiful and border opened spaces that only exist between the Portuguese lands and the Atlantic [...]

A travel through the Atlantic that show us the fruit of exploration of a country where the reached ecstasy in each place is transmitted with great intensity. This is the first purpose when the photography is chosen as a way of expression, and Luis Vioque has achieved it with a great mastery and about a theme with which in the most of times, the obtained results do not allow to find the fey of the author’s intentionality exclusively highlighting the characteristics enhancing the beauty of landscape. But Luis Vioque perfectly dominates the communication keys, as the way he shows it when he finds dusk at the Praia de Barril. The main elements seems to compete each other but the result presents a fixed composition and the obscures islands of vegetation are the bottom that makes the white and lonely chairs and the table force us to reconsider just before this beautiful and infinite instant. And our imagination will never guess what it happens some seconds after this encounter between two tiny human figures and the vessel sailing across from the Vila de Santo Antonio.

"Mares de Portugal" exhibition by Luis Vioque (space # 2)

April 11, 2015-May 28, 2015

Opening: April 1, 2015 at 12:00 local time

(The gallery will be opened in continuous hours)

BLANCA BERLÍN GALERÍA

C/ Limón, 28

28015 Madrid (Spain)

Hours: Wednesday to Friday 17:00-21:00. Saturday, 11:30 am -14:30 pm and 17:00 -20:30. Mornings and holidays, scheduled visit.