Miquel Barcelo'
dal 19/1/2004 al 21/3/2004
Segnalato da
19/1/2004
Miquel Barcelo'
IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
The exhibition will comprise some 80 photographs taken between 1985 and the present day by the Franco-Spanish photographer Jean-Marie del Moral, who accompanied Miquel Barceló as a travelling companion on his adventures.
(Photography by Jean-Marie del Moral)
Curator: Alberto Anaut
The exhibition will comprise some 80 photographs taken between 1985 and
the present day by the Franco-Spanish photographer Jean-Marie del Moral,
who accompanied Miquel Barceló as a travelling companion on his
adventures. From Paris to Barcelona, from Palermo to Gao, from Farrutx in
Majorca to Segou, Del Moral has elaborated a colourful biography of the
artist's life through his studios, his objects, dozens of little details
that make up his complex universe. All these photographs that could be
defined as a travel book and allow us to see the personal and artistic
evolution of the Spanish artist most acclaimed on an international scale,
who has recently been awarded the Premio PrÃncipe de Asturias for Art.
Besides, a 26-minute video titled Les ateliers de Barceló will be shown, a
series of animated black and white photographs that
constitute a travel book around the Majorcan artist's different studios
during the seven years before it was made in 1992.
The exhibition revolves around several series titled according to the
place and the year they were taken: Avenue de Breteuil 1985, Cúpula
Barcelona 1988, Farrutx 1987-1988, Gao 1988, Segou 1991, Pays Dogon 2000,
Buttes Chaumont 1989-90, Opera Comique 1989, Palermo 1998, Les Rairies
1999-2000, Lanzarote 2002, Rue Vieille du Temple 1992-2002. These series,
which show Barceló's evolution in time and work, recreate a painter's path
with its twists and turns, its doubts and its searches, the traces of his
memory of places and time.
When he met Miquel Barceló in his studio in Paris back in 1985, while he
was preparing his first exhibition at the Castelli Gallery in New York,
Jean-Marie del Moral had no way of knowing he was about to embark on an
extraordinary voyage that would turn him into a privileged witness of the
life and creative development of that unknown young painter, who has
attained great fame today. The photographer felt the same sensation that
he had experienced some years earlier when he entered the studio of
another great painter, Joan Miró: an authentic revelation that changed his
career and transformed him from a news reporter to a chronicler of
contemporary art. Then he met Antonio Saura, Miguel Ãngel Campano, Antoni
Clavé, Baltasar Lobo and many other artists.
The result of his work, now exhibited at the IVAM, has been published in
the catalogue Los estudios de Barceló, which gives us an opportunity to see not
only the work but also the
human being who observes and transforms what he sees into art. Two glances
that have travelled together over two decades for our enjoyment.
JEAN-MARIE DEL MORAL.- Born in France in 1952, the son of Spanish
republican exiles, Jean-Marie del Moral has trained his camera on the
private studios of important painters, a world that has fascinated him
since he first met Joan Miró in 1977. His great collection of pictures
conforms an intense exploration of the private creative universes of many
painters of international repute, including, apart from Miró, Sam Szafran,
Soulages, Fenosa... The resulting pictures show naked or sophisticated
interiors, but always concerned with his preoccupation for the object, the
decoration and artists in the midst of their crowded studios concentrating
to the limits of their inspiration.
Jean-Marie del Moral's photographic work can be found in both public and
private collections all over the world. His pictures of Barceló were shown
for the first time at the international exhibition in Arles, France, in
1988. He has published books on the studios of Miró, Picasso and Van Gogh,
and is a well-known collaborator of Vogue, Travel & Leisure, World of Interiors,
Art Kunstmagazin, El PaÃs, Beaux Arts, The Observer, Time and Figaro Madame,
among other publications. He has also made several documentaries, like Ram Dam,
for the French Canal 3 or a series of portraits of artists: Pierre Soulages,
Yvon Lambert,
Richard Texier, Mariscal, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Picasso and things
and, in 1992, Barceló's studios. His work as a photographer has been shown
in a series of important exhibitions, such as Los tiempos de la pintura in the
Musée Donjon, in Niort (1987), or the one held a year later at the
GalerÃa Eude in Barcelona. In 1989 he exhibited at the International
Photography Encounters in Arles and he has been present at the FIAC
through the Catalan gallery Carles Taché. He has published various books
of photographs, among which it is worth mentioning Photographies, brought out by
the Association L'Oeil.
At the present time, he dedicates himself to photography, the publication
of books and the making of documentaries.
Image: 4 de octubre de 1998[1]. Interior de la iglesia
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