As part of the exhibition ‘Todo paisaje es una metáfora’, Javier del Camp San José (director of the CAB in Burgos) conducts this interview, in which he explains and contextualises all of Pepo Hernando’s artistic production presented in the exhibition.
The exhibition can be seen until the 1st of December at the Centre d’Art Caixa de Burgos (C. Saldaña, S/N, 09003 Burgos).
For more information on the exhibition, click here.
In the gallery called 001. PhotoVision. Reflexión y debate en la creación fotográfica (PhotoVision. Reflection and debate in photographic creation) are presented works from the series Peluquería (Hairdresser’s) by the artist Ouka Leele. This section of the exhibition, Communicating Vessels, explores the 1980s in relation to photographic production. During this period, photography centres were set up in Spain to research, exhibit and disseminate national photography, as well as specialised magazines, biennials and events that allowed for debate and photographic creation.
Issue 86 of Umbigo magazine is out with a special issue on Connection/Disconnection. It includes a special article on Nephogram, Andrés Galeano’s project in the form of an application that calculates how many grams of CO2 an image emits when it is uploaded to a social network. When a photo is uploaded to Nephogram, it is automatically compressed, reducing its carbon footprint and impact.
The photographer Gloria Oyarzabal participates in the 10th edition of the international photography festival SCAN (Tarragona), with the exhibition “Traces of light. Memories of the photographic image” curated by Érika Goyarrola.
With the work “Usus fructus abusus” Oyarzabal updates present-day colonial approaches by revisiting the events and legends of the past. However, she uses photography as an instrument of social and political vindication.
From RocioSantaCruz gallery we would like to congratulate Colita on receiving the Ofici de Periodista 2023 prize, awarded by the Governing Board of the Colegio de Periodista on the occasion of her professional career.
The association has highlighted the figure of Colita as essential to understand the culture and art of the city of Barcelona in the field of photojournalism.
We share Isabel Navarro’s interesting article on the work of Pilar Aymerich, published in El Diario. Under the title Pilar Aymerich, la fotógrafa que no quiso ser objetiva, acerca su memoria de “brujas” adúlteras y feministas, Isabel Navarro brings us closer to Aymerich’s photography in the exhibition Memoria Vivida, at the Círculo de Bellas Artes until 07.01.2024.
The exhibition “popular”, curated by Pedro G. Romero, proposes an expanded re-reading of the collection of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern based on the concept that gives the exhibition its title. With more than 1500 pieces on display, Oriol Vilapuig and Miguel Trillo take part with works that allow an approach to the understanding of the popular as, in the words of Pedro G. Romero, “a form of imagination […] that is produced through gestures, actions and parties, in very strange ways”.
The Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Burgos, Spain) is hosting one of the most important monographic exhibitions of Pepo Hernando (Burgos, 1950-2022) in recent years. “Every Landscape is a Metaphor” emphasizes the importance of Hernando as one of the most prolific artists from Castilla y León, showing for the first time works that have been only shown in the intimacy of his studio. Inaugurated on October 6 and on view until December 1, 2023, the exhibition brings together an important selection of his most recent production, a painting halfway between Op Art and minimalist abstraction, resulting in a delicate and ductile interweaving of shapes and colors. In the words of Javier del Campo San José, curator of the exhibition, “the echo of a repetitive, almost unconscious writing, the result of a self-absorbed meditation, is amplified by the patterns of colour. Intercalations of chromatic networks generate variations and nuance, and alter the formal convention of backgrounds and surfaces. In this way Hernando modifies the relationship of depth and perspective, giving his painting the rare quality of simultaneously perceiving flatness and volume, plasticity and solidity”.
Invitation to the exhibition: Friday, October 6, 2023
During the last edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023 (14.09.2023 – 17.09.2023), the Fundació Vila Casas acquired the work Teoria dels cossos II, by the artist Oriol Vilapuig. In this work, the questioning of the body through plastic, artistic and conceptual reflection is superimposed on the quotation from “Teoria dels cossos” (1966) by Gabriel Ferrater.
The gallery would like to thank the Foundation and all its tean for their confidence in a work of such artistic interest as Vilapuig’s.
“La curiositat del cos, que tu fa massa temps que en dius desig” – Gabriel Ferrater, “Teoria dels cossos”, 1966
After 4 years, the artist Jean Denant installs the work Mattes Basses in the Parc régional du haut Languedoc en pleine nature. Described by the artist himself as “a sculpture in the landscape for the sake of the landscape”, the work is part of his production in which he reflects on the rural landscape as an artistic element per se.
