Tiempo de Danzon

Mexican photographer Cristina Kahlo inaugurated today, at Yuriko Yamamoto Espacio Contemporaneo, Madrid, an exhibition that sheds light on her interest in music and dance, particularly in the magic of danzon.

The sensuality and elegance of this dance style, the result of Cuban dance and contredans, are reflected on the snapshots taken by the artist at the Square of Danzon and Los Angeles Hall (Mexico DF), Queretaro City, and Veracruz port. Danzon had and presently has a worship space on Mexican soil. Kahlo photographed people who intensely live every moment of danzon liturgy, and that was the reason why she was given Rosa Abdala Gomez National Award to the Preservation and Spreading of Danzon, in 2011.

Born from a family of artists, Cristina Kahlo has exhibited her work in Mexico, United States, Germany, Switzerland and France. Between 1983 and 1985, she founded and chaired the Alternative Gallery in Coyoacan, Mexico, and, from 1986 to 1991, she founded and co-headed in an association with Juan Coronel Rivera, Kahlo Coronel Contemporary Art and Photography Gallery. She also collaborated with New Vision Association, from Belgium, when it came to organizing events on Latin America Photography in Europe and Mexico. In 2006, she won the Residency Scholarship granted by Bartels Foundation, from Basil, Switzerland.

Tiempo de Danzon is made up of fifty pictures, and will be open to viewers through Dec. 22, 2012.

Yuriko Yamamoto Espacio Contemporaneo
C/Alameda 3, 28014 Madrid

Source: Press release