XIV edizione del Festival internazionale della fotografia e delle arti visive
1 giugno – 24 luglio 2011, Madrid, Spagna

Aperto da una settimana PHotoEspaña, festival internazionale della fotografia e delle arti visive di Madrid, che insieme a Paris Photo si contende il primato tra gli appassionati dell’ottava arte. La quattordicesima edizione ha un nuovo direttore, Gerardo Mosquera, che per i prossimi tre anni si occuperà del festival e che quest’anno ha come scenario oltre alla capitale spagnola anche Lisbona, Cuenca e Alcalá de Henares.

PHotoEspaña propone 66 mostre tra queste alcuni pezzi da novanta come: Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Ron Galella, Alfredo Jaar, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Dayanita Singh, Kan Xuan e Nancy Burson. A queste si aggiungono molte altre iniziative come workshop fotografici, presentazioni di portfolio, dibattiti, masterclass, attività didattiche, laboratori per le famiglie, proiezioni ed eventi nelle strade della città.

Tra le varie iniziative: Otras Salas  pensato non solo per gli spazi espositivi. OpenPHoto Cuenca invece offre visibilità alle proposte delle ambasciate e delle istituzioni culturali straniere. Per finire il Festival Off, con gli highlights delle gallerie madrilene.  Per le mostre si segnalano quella che raccoglie oltre cento scatti di Ron Galella, il fotoreporter delle celebrity. Tra i vari big che partecipano all’edizione 2011, l’artista albanese Adrian Paci che presenta la mostra Retratos de Fayum + Adrian Paci: sin futuro visible, realizzata in collaborazione con il Museo Arqueológico Nacional. Tredici ritratti inediti del Fayum dal I al III secolo d.C. affiancati dal filmato di Paci Centro di Permanenza temporanea.

 

PHotoEspaña

Madrid

1 giugno – 24 luglio 2011
C/ Verónica 13
T. +34 913 601 326
F. +34 901 020 535
info@phe.es

PHotoEspaña, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, set out to become a Festival generated by popular demand in 1998, and today it has earned its place as one of the most relevant visual arts events in the world.PHotoEspaña is one of the central international forums for photography. Each year the Festival attracts more than seven hundred thousand people and receives acclaim from prestigious critics, making it the most popular cultural event in Spain.The Festival is an exceptional occasion for discovering images, videos and installations created by outstanding national and international photographers and visual artists.

Since the first edition of the Festival, 792 exhibitions have been hosted in the city’s main museums, art centres and galleries. The shows are complemented by pedagogic and professional programs designed for diverse audiences.

The heart of the Festival in Madrid is located along the Paseo de Castellana, that runs through the city centre. Lisboa has joint the Festival as outside venue as well as Cuenca, a neighbouring location to Madrid, that perform OpenPhoto, a project that gathers proposals from embassies and foreign cultural institutes.Besides the exhibitions, a professional programme is developed. Campus PHE organizes in Alcalá de Henares (neighbouring location to Madrid) workshops lead by international photographers. Descubrimientos PHE meet youngphotographers with International curators, gallery directors, and picture editors. Encuentros PHE are debates for artists and specialists analyze the current situation on photography.PHotoEspaña organize pedagogic programmes and activities for everybody. The educative programme gets closer photography and visual arts to high school students. Photography workshops for children, youth and seniors makes photography available for all the people. The guided tours and family workshops approach authors, periods and trends of the performed exhibitions. PHotoEspaña on the street give the opportunity to everybody to participate actively in the Festival.

PHotoEspaña is organized by La Fábrica www.lafabrica.com, a company dedicated to arts management. The Festival is made possible thanks to the support and collaboration of private companies and public institutions.

Ron Galella, the paparazzo most famous and controversial of the 20th Century
At Loewe, Gran Vía, 8 y Círculo de Bellas Artes / Sala Picasso

Famous for his altercation with Marlon Brando and for Jackie Kennedy’s lawsuit against him, Galella is a pioneer in photographing public figures during private moments. The Círculo de Bellas Artes and Loewe, Gran Vía 8, are showing Ron Galella: Paparazzo Extraordinaire!, an exposition with over 100 photographs from the most famous and controversial paparazzo The exhibition, under the official thematic Interfaces: Portraiture and communication, is curated by Gerardo Mosquera. The show, sponsored by Loewe, brings together pictures of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren or Jack Nicholson

PHotoEspaña and Loewe organize Paparazzo Extraordinaire!, a retrospective exhibition with over 100 photographs of the paparazzo most famous and controversial of the twentieth century. Ron Galella did not invent the word paparazzo, but he did personalize it, redefining the relationship between the film star and photographer. For over 30 years, he photographed public figures in private moments, which led to his being sued by Jackie Kennedy and threatened by Marlon Brando. Today he is the most famous and polemical photographer of celebrities in the world, and his photos have been published in hundreds of magazines such as Time, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stones, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Life.

Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Cary Grant, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Paul Newman, and Mick Jagger are just some of the stars Galella has photographed. The exposition, which the Loewe Museum and the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum of Madrid) are simultaneously hosting, brings together 109 photographs in color and black and white that make up a visual diary of fame, wealth, and success in the United States.The exhibition will be open from 2nd June to 17th July 2011.

Like all good paparazzo, Ron Galella, who is a leading player in this media-hungry world, reproduces it while at the same time deconstructing its painstaking glamour: he catches the stars looking like normal people, disrupting the time, space and perfection of their carefully-groomed images. Galella reveals to us the normality of what is considered exceptional. His photos have a certain human appeal because they are the result of a face-to-face encounter. Galella doesn’t even look through the camera. “Portraits are person to person, you want to capture the meeting of person to person, the reaction, and see, not through the lens. Through the lens you don’t see the expressions of a face” , Galella says.

About the artist
Ron Galella (New York, 1931) served his country as an Air Force photographer during the Korean War. In 1958, he graduated from the Art Center College of Design (in Los Angeles, California) with a degree in photojournalism. His photographs have been shown in museums and galleries all over the world, including the MoMa in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern in London, and the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. In 2010 Leon Gast directed a documentary film dedicated to Galella called Smash his Camera, which will also be presented at the showing.

PHotoEspaña

Madrid

1 giugno – 24 luglio 2011
C/ Verónica 13
T. +34 913 601 326
F. +34 901 020 535
info@phe.es