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Isabel Steva Hernández, better known as Colita, is one of the most important Spanish photographers of the 20th century. With her camera she has immortalized the Barcelona of the 1960s and 1970s, the world of flamenco and the most important people, both artists and intellectuals, of this period in the history of Spain. A fervent defender of freedom and feminism, Colita collaborated in various publications of the time and was part of the famous Gauche Divine movement.

In 1962 she collaborated in Francesc Rovira-Beleta’s film ‘Los Tarantos’. During the filming she met the bailaora Carmen Amaya, known by the nickname of “La Capitana”, with whom she would form a deep friendship. Thanks to Amaya, Colita became passionate about flamenco, to the point that the young woman left Barcelona to move to Madrid where she would take the promotional photographs of two great representatives of this art: La Chunga and Antonio Gades. Colita then traveled to Andalusia, the birthplace of flamenco, always at the controls of her inseparable six hundred. From that trip would emerge the book ‘Lights and Shadows of Flamenco’, a legendary work in which Colita makes a magnificent photographic journey through the world of flamenco and gypsies, a world that fascinated her.

The exhibition will be on view until November 21.

With over 130 works from the Solander Collection, An Alternative History of Photography invites you to look again at well-known works and new discoveries by major artists, alongside forgotten greats, regional champions and unknown artists.
Unexpected images by legendary figures including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Man Ray and Edward Weston, are paired with work by Helen Stuart and John Lindt, early, self-trained practitioner Lady Augusta Mostyn, and African studio photographers Sanlé Sory, Michel Kameni and Malick Sidibé.
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This exhibition is curated by Phillip Prodger and organised by Curatorial Exhibitions in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a major new book, published by Prestel.

About the Solander Collection
Dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of photographic art in all its forms, the Solander Collection has a special emphasis on international traditions, under-represented and forgotten artists, ethnic diversity and women. The aim of the collection is to broaden the understanding of photography as inclusive and democratic.

On view through 19 February, 2023, at The Photographer’s Gallery, London.

The HADAL project, by Lois Patiño, to which the piece SOL ROJO belongs, proposes an immersion into the abyss of the ocean. Hadal is the deepest stratum of the sea, more than 6000 meters deep, where there is a total absence of light and the cold is very intense. The word hadal refers to the Greek god of death, Hades, and his domain, the place of death.

The project focuses on the perceptual and sensory aspects of the underwater experience, where buoyancy, the rhythm of breathing and the refraction of light, awaken sensations that take you beyond the corporeal. An intimate and contemplative experience of profound introspection.

RED SUN is the piece that culminates this journey from the darkness and cold of the sea depths, towards light, color and signs of life. A fish storm revolves around a motionless figure, oscillating weightless with the flow of water. From the interior of the sea we can observe the source of light and heat: a red sun, liquid, floats in the water.

The word “place” has other meanings that can help us understand the works in this exhibition. We say “in place of” to indicate that something replaces something else, or “to put oneself in someone’s place” to imagine that we are this someone or to understand him or her. To “take place” or “to take place” is to be the cause of something happening and, consequently, “not to take place” means that something does not happen.

The selection of works in the exhibition has to do with this relationship of construction, foundation, signification and symbolization between places and things: historical places and places of memory; geometry and space; the limit and the empty place; bodies, words and space; habitable places, the city and the territory.

The exhibition will be open from October 21 to April 17, 2023 at Museo Centro Gaiás, Santiago de Compostela.

Gonzalo Elvira‘s exhibition “Reading the Dream” at the CAB shows drawings, paintings, objects and books making up an extensive story with which the artist has wanted to interweave two of the fundamental pillars of contemporary culture on both sides of the Atlantic: the formal artistic investigations of a rational nature nurtured by the Bauhaus, and psychoanalysis as a therapy to treat emotional problems. The exhibition will be held at the Centro de Arte Caja Burgos from October 7 to January 22.

Video of the exhibition.

From September 17 to December 17 in Espai MercArt (Sant Just d’Esvern) takes place the group exhibition “The utopian world” in which we find the work BAGA(T)GES by Blanca Casas Brullet. This exhibition is part of MONS, an exhibition divided into three exhibitions: “El mundo propio”, “El mundo reflejo” and “El mundo utópico”. The latter invites us to make a serene yet forceful reflection on the utopian thought that guides our will and makes us the actors of tomorrow, animated by the desire for perseverance and continuity. This desire to intervene in all that we do not like, but also in what we admire and want to improve, is the intrinsic condition of any realization and any change.

As part of the parallel activities of the Seville Flamenco Biennial, Archivo Colita brings together more than a hundred original works by photographer Isabel Steva Hernandez, “Colita“, selected from materials from her personal archive, at the Atín Aya Hall in the Turina Building. From September 7 to November 10, unpublished or scarcely disclosed works, coexist and expand the context of those iconic photographs with which the artist has won the recognition of the critics and the admiration of the public. The exhibition is articulated in a chronological sequence structured in three acts: Gypsy World (1962-1963); Journey to Andalusia (1969) and Ocaña by Colita (1977-1983).

Gonzalo Elvira participates in the exhibition one voice / one image. A project articulated around a series of thirteen short videos in which thirteen artists (Ignasi Aballí, Ángela Bonadies, Gonzalo Elvira, Esther Ferrer, Dora García, Narelle Jubelin, Eva Lootz, Antoni Muntadas, Javier Peñafiel, Álvaro Perdices, Paloma Polo, Pedro G. Romero and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina) are invited to read an image they have previously chosen. Through a format that differs from the traditional one, the idea is to introduce the image and analyze it with each guest artist’s voice and thoughts.

It can be visited from September 8 to November 20 at Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque, Sala de Bóvedas, Madrid.

The exhibition Icons but of What? Women and the Civil War in the eyes of Antoni Campañà is part of the XXI Xavier Miserachs Photography Biennial. An exhibition in which the photographs of Antoni Campañà provide a different point of view and a very comprehensive reading of the role of women during the Spanish Civil War.
On view until 9 October in the Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Theatre of Palafrugell.

Once again, the Fundació Vila Casas has announced the edition of the awards dedicated, on a rotating basis, to the disciplines of painting, sculpture and photography. This year is the turn of the Painting Prize 2022 and the jury -formed by Gisela Chillida, Natàlia Chocarro, Marc Domènech, Conxita Oliver, Antonio Sagnier, Àlex Susanna and Antoni Vila Casas- has selected 30 finalist works, including the work “P2” by Gonzalo Elvira, which can be viewed in an exhibition at Can Framis between July 5 and September 18, 2022.

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