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On 8 June, Andrés Galeano presents his project “Neophogram” at La Capella in Barcelona. Combining art, science and technology, the Nephogram application calculates how many grams of CO2 an image emits when it is uploaded to a social network. By uploading a photo to Nephogram, it is automatically compressed and thus reduces its ecological footprint and impact. Don’t miss it!

Gloria Oyarzabal is another of the great photographers from the RocioSantaCruz gallery who will be present at PHotoESPAÑA. The exhibition Una Visión Propia is dedicated to photography by women. Beginning with a nod to Virginia Woolf in the title, it defends women’s own vision through portraits of outstanding heroines of the current cultural scene. In the case of Oyarzabal, the artist photographs Colita, revealing a deep admiration between both Photographers, in capital letters.

From 31.05.2023-27.08.2023 at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid. Organised by: Cómo ser fotógrafa, Museo Lázaro Galdiano and PHotoESPAÑA.

Also as part of PHotoESPAÑA, Gloria Oyarzabal will be showing her entry for the Fundación Enaire Awards, which was one of the 15 best selected by the jury. In the photographs on show, the artist continues to work on issues of race and its marginalisation from a Western perspective, a theme that runs through all her work. Don’t miss it!

From 01.06.2023-27.08.2023 at the Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid. Organised by: Fundación Enaire; Curated by Ángeles Imaña

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.