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The PHotoESPAÑA 2023 festival kicks off in the city of Madrid with exhibition proposals by ORLAN and Fina Miralles. In this section of our website we share some of the images of the inauguration.

PHotoESPAÑA – ORLAN

In the occasion of PHotoESPAÑA 2023, the artist Fina Miralles, represented by RocioSantaCruz gallery, exhibits in the solo show Fina Miralles. The woman tree, the woman water. This exhibition was jointly organised by the PHotoESPAÑA festival and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, in collaboration with RocioSantaCruz. Curated by Teresa Grandas, the photographs presented show Miralles’ interest in natural elements and translations. In the words of the curator: “Fina goes far beyond mere questioning. The gesture of transferring the grass to the sea or the sand to the field is simple but resounding. This gesture not only carries a critical and clearly political charge, but also generates another possible imaginary”.

Créditos fotografía portada: © Fina Miralles. Col·lecció MACBA. Deposito de la generalitat de Catalunya

On Monday 29 May 2023, the PHotoESPAÑA festival will open the exhibition ORLAN: This is my history…of art in collaboration with RocioSantaCruz gallery. In this exhibition, curated by Alain Quemin, you will be able to see some of the works that make up ORLAN’s photographic production, from historical pieces to the 12 photographs from the series Weeping women are angry, on show at the gallery from 15 March to 18 May 2023.

The exhibition “Madrid: Creative Chronicle of the 80s” commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Autonomy Statute of the Community of Madrid and brings together more than 300 works from the creative revolution of the Movida Madrileña at the Canal de Isabel II Foundation (Madrid). In the 1980s, the Spanish capital was the scene of a cultural revolution that directly influenced photography, painting, magazines, posters, fanzines, music, cinema, and television. Ouka Leele and Miguel Trillo‘s photographs are present in the exhibition as they were the most paradigmatic photographers of the countercultural period.

From May 19 to August 20, 2023.

Ouka Leele, Peluqueria, 1978.

Press

• “Homenaje al arrollador universo creativo del Madrid de los 80”, Laura Galdeano, Libertad Digital. 19.05.2023
• “Una exposición recuerda el Madrid de los ochenta, con la famosa Movida”, RTVE, 19.05.2023
• “Madrid: crónica creativa de los 80″, una muestra más allá de La Movida”, La Vanguardia, 18.05.2023
• “Madrid: crónica creativa de los 80”, Somos Tetuan, El Diario, 17.05.2023
• “Más allá de la Movida: la crónica visual definitiva del Madrid de los ochenta”, 19.05.2023

ORLAN’s exhibition journey through Spain, hand in hand with Picasso, does not end at RocioSantaCruz gallery. From 19 May 2023 to 7 January 2024, La Casa Encendida is hosting the exhibition “Picasso: Sin Título“, in which prominent contemporary artists have been invited to describe and retitle a work by Picasso from their own creative prism.

ORLAN, continuing with the feminist re-reading of the genius of Malaga, has worked with the painting “Tête d’homme”, resulting in the text “Between black, grey and white. Self-portrait of a toxic man who emerges from his shadows”.

Toni Amengual, photographer represented by RocioSantaCruz Gallery, has been selected as a finalist in the Best Self-Published Photobooks Award 2023. Said award, provided by the prestigious festival PHotoESPAÑA 2023, gathers the best proposals of the year in the exhibition THE BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF THE YEAR, from May 30, 2023 to July 30, 2023 at Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa (Madrid).

You can buy ORNAMENTO here.

The artwork Una democracia en fatiga II (2023) by Gloria Oyarzabal is finally selected as one of the 15 best photographs of the XVI Premio de Fotografía Fundación ENAIRE. To celebrate the awards, the Enaire Foundation and PHotoESPAÑA 2023 will show the winning and finalist works in the exhibition PREMIOS DE FOTOGRAFÍA FUNDACIÓN ENAIRE 2023, from June 1 to August 27, 2023. Curated by Ángeles Imaña, it can be visited at the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.

On the occasion of ORLAN’s first solo exhibition in Barcelona, held in RocioSantaCruz gallery, Punts De Vista RTVE has dedicated part of its program on May 11 to Weeping women are angry.

Rocio Santa Cruz and team would like to thank the people in charge of the program for broadcasting our exhibition.

Just two weeks after the closing of the exhibition Weeping women are angry, ORLAN continues to conquer the Spanish press. This time we share the publication written by Micquel Echarri and photographed by Toni Amengual for El País Semanal.