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13/5/2010

Measurable

Centros de Arte y Naturaleza - CDAN, Huesca

Curated by Pablo LLorca

Measurable focuses on the ability of images – mainly photographic, but also film, video, and even spectrographic images – to analyse and explore reality in a wide range of scientific aspects related to nature. The understanding of nature that underlies the exhibition is both broad and precise, encompassing the cosmos, geology, volcanology, and the human body – from the skin out, as well as its internal workings. Images are presented as a means of exploring, measuring and understanding processes that reveal the natural world and its evolution. Though not originally created as works of art or generally regarded as such, these images possess an undeniable beauty. Most are descriptive and functional, and they figure prominently in the iconography of our times.

The image of the Earth provided by a satellite for climate predictions, a camera that monitors a volcano in Antarctica, pioneering photographs used to measure the human body (taken in 1853), the first botanical compilation in history, in beautiful blue prints, the landscapes of Mars taken by a device on the planet’s surface... Measurable traces a historical arc from the first years of photography to the present day and examines the relationship between images and our knowledge of nature, understood in the broad and precise sense mentioned above. These images contribute to scientific knowledge, research, and dissemination, and allow us to explore nature.

The exhibition spans almost two centuries, bringing together both pioneering works and contemporary images, created by well-known figures and anonymous individuals (and in some cases even by machines). The origins of the works featured are diverse, with images from numerous European and North American collections, as well as sources that can be accessed online. The association between beauty and utility, between beauty and knowledge, is central to the show.

Pablo Llorca

Collections that have loaned works:
Archivo Peña Guara, Huesca I Basic Books, Nueva York I Bibliotheque National de France, Paris I Société de Géographie, París I Centre Excursionista de Catalunya I Colección José Luis Acín I Colección Esteban Anía I Colección Fernando Biarge I Colección Enrique Carbó I Colección Hans- Peter Feldmann I Colección Lassus I Colección Telefónica, Madrid I Colección IES Vega del Turia, Teruel. Diputación General de Aragón I Departamento de Medio Ambiente. Gobierno de Aragón I Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur,Cologne I Filmoteca Española, Madrid I Fondo Ricardo Compairé. Fototeca, Diputación de Huesca I Fototeca de la Diputación de Huesca I Instituto de Ciencias del Mar - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona I Macmillan Publishers Ltd., Londres I Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory, Antártida I Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police, Paris I Musée Pyrénéen Château-Fort, Lourdes I Museo de Bielsa I Musée Nacional d’Historie Naturelle, Paris I Nacional Media Museum, UK / SSLP I NASA, Washington I Observatoire de Paris I Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, Scotland I Societé Française de Photographie, Paris I Studio Alix, Bagnères-de-Bigorre I The Royal Anthropological Institute, Londres I Unviersität der Künste Berlin, Universitärchiv I Wellcome Library, Londres

Image: Portraits parlés, tableaux synoptique de 24 oreilles, h. 1890 Alphonse de Bertillon. Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police. París

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