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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).

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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.

On May 3, 2023, at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the presentation of ICONA by Toni Amengual will take place.

ICONA is a visual essay created by Toni Amengual during his residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome, 2021. In this work, Amengual focuses on the city of Rome as a scenario built over millennia by power, religious and political. It is here that the image has been generated and used as a tool of social control. In this sense, Amengual visits the most important monuments and museums in Rome to photograph images that today we consider iconic in the history of art, but which were conceived with a clear purpose: social control. Either in a propagandistic way, as the political power will do, or in a moralistic way, as the religious power will do.

Following the presentation of PHotoESPAÑA 2023, La Vanguardia publishes a review of the program that can be enjoyed from May 31 to September 3. Writes Justo Barranco, 29.04.2023

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Colita has been awarded with the Christa Leem Prize, which recognizes the career of the Catalan artist and her commitment to the city of Barcelona. The prize, which was presented to the photographer by the Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta, has been awarded since 2003 to those whose careers demonstrate values related to progress or freedom, which are characteristic of Colita’s photography, especially the Antifèmina series. In previous editions, important figures of national culture have been honored, such as Núria Espert, Niño de Elche, Javier Pérez Andújar, Joan Manuel Serrat, Miguel Poveda, Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, Pilar Manjón, Ian Gibson, Patti Smith, Baltasar Garzón, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer, Marcos Ana, Salvador Allende (in memoriam) or Lilian Thuram.

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• Colita: “Recibo con alborozo todos los premios relacionados con Barcelona”, La Vanguardia. 29.04.2023

The programme for the PHotoESPAÑA festival has been officially presented in the city of Madrid. The XXVI edition, which will take place from 31 May to 03 September 2023, will feature 7 artists represented by the RocioSantaCruz gallery.

In the official section, ORLAN will present the exhibition ORLAN: This is my story…. of art thanks to the collaboration of RocioSantaCruz. It will show the complete series of “Weeping women are angry“, which is currently on display at the gallery until 20 May 2023. Fina Miralles will also be present with La mujer árbol, la mujer agua, an exhibition organised by MACBA and PHotoESPAÑA in collaboration with RocioSantaCruz. Both exhibitions will be held in the Sala Picasso of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Gloria Oyarzabal presents her portraits of important women from the cultural scene in the group exhibition Una Visión Propia at the Museo Lazaro Galdiano, while Ouka Leele is part of the history of the “movida madrileña” in the exhibition Madrid: Crónica creativa de los 80 (Canal de Isabel II). Finally, Flowers for Franco, by Toni Amengual, will be included in the selection of The best photography books of the year, an exhibition at the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa.

The Guest Venues will host Ouka Leele’s solo exhibition entitled El Universo de una Estrella. In this exhibition, the Royal Photographic Society pays special tribute to the photographer by bringing together works, some of them little known, from throughout her professional career.

At the Santander venue of the PHotoESPAÑA festival, the Espacios, Memoria y Tiempo outdoor exhibition brings together the winners of the National Photography Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sport. Pilar Aymerich, Ouka Leele and Montserrat Soto are part of the special tribute that brings together this new generation of key figures in the history of Spanish photography.

RocioSantaCruz Gallery would like to thank the team of PHotoESPAÑA and especially its director Claude Bussac.