Frederic Montornés. La notte, 1961

The Joan Miró Foundation presents La notte, 1961, a small format photografic exhibition by Frederic Montornés.

The exhibition reflects the most creative facet of this curator and art critic who has found in the digital photography an extension of his memory and look.

La notte, 1961 exhibition shows Montornés’s impressions taken during three decades that, according to the artist, they have in common the fact to stimulate a searching and they hide more than they visibly express.

This selection of images can be seen at the lobby of the Joan Miró Foundation from February 12 to May 25, 2015.

La notte, 1961 is a small simple of the photographic Project by Frederic Montornés (Sitges, 1963), a named linked to the contemporary art of the 80’s in the field of the curatorship and critics. The personal photographic record of Montornés includes pictures taken, in an spontaneous manner, that more than meaning some kind of support for his memory, are a reflection of his memory.

The title of this exhibition, La notte, 1961, refers the night as an opportune moment of introspection and intuition, in which these pictures face each other in par to interchange and reveal new meanings. The reference to the homonymous film by Michelangelo Antonioni is also homage to the Italian director that “he has made me understand that behind what we see, other things are hidden, perhaps other lives; anyway these kind of things are stimulants,” Montornés said.

In 2012, parallel the exhibition titled Joaquim Gomis: de la mirada oblicua a la narración visual, the Joan Miró Foundation turned some part of the lobby into a space dedicated to the photography exhibition. This space alternates exhibitions by Joaquim Gomis and Works of other photographers who like the case of Gomis dedicate themselves to photography as an extra activity besides their professional carrier.