Canal Isabel II collects until march a selection of the most significant projects of the photographer between 1984 and 2014.
If Descartes raised its ambitious statement "Cogito, ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am", the photographer, curator, essayist and teacher Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, ??1955) stands out with his axiom "Imago, ergo sum" to remind us that today we are a human being only because of our image, we exist only if we are photographed because we are children of a civilization ever more dependent on the visual.
The exhibition traces the most important projects since 1984 of one of our most international photographers: Herbarium, Sputnik, Securitas, Trepat or Miracles & Co are complemented by two interventions in the National Museum of Anthropology ("Sirens" Series) and the National Museum Natural Sciences CSIC ("Fauna" Series). The exhibition includes photographs, books, objects and audiovisual works that address the major themes of the artist: the credibility of the images and devices and channels of transmission of culture.
With "Imago, ergo sum" Fontcuberta reaffirms "photography as a new medium that, unlike other languages ??inherited of traditional arts, it develops equivalent lines of the same project, as a set in an exhibition space or as pages of an editorial volume". Because of this are so important books that have been published throughout his career and they can be viewed interactively in tablets because almost all its editions are sold out.
With a carreer of more than 40 years, Fontcuberta has received numerous awards such as the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994, National Photography Award (1998), the National Essay Award (2011) and also he was the first Spanish getting in 2103 the prestigious Hasselblad Award figures who have also received Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank and Josef Koudelka.
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