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13/2/2014

Jose' Manuel Ballester / Madrid 1910-1935

Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid

Madrid 1910-1935
Visual fragments, sequences and contrasts of a city in transformation

A visual memory of the transformation that Madrid underwent in the first third of the last century.

The exhibition, Madrid 1910-1935, conceived from the documental resources that are housed in Conde Duque and the History Museum, brings together a visual memory of the transformation that Madrid underwent in the first third of the last century. This was a transformation that was based on the predominant urban principles of the age and which, although principally affecting infrastructure, also changed the city’s daily life.

Organised by the General Directorate of Museums and Music, The Madrid History Museum, Municipal Newspaper Library, Madrid Digital Memory Library and Conde Duque, with the collaboration of the City Archive.

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José Manuel Ballester
Glimpses of Asturias. Allumar

The beautiful photographs retain intact all of his creative qualities, discovering the region’s industrial and natural landscapes with the romantic clarity that defines his work.

The beautiful photographs by José Manuel Ballester for the Project, Glimpses of Asturias. Illuminate retain intact all of his creative qualities, discovering the region’s industrial and natural landscapes with the romantic clarity that defines his work and that has remained present in it throughout his long career, inspiring a poetic intimacy. Between 2010 and 2013, Ballester has taken more than 5,000 photographs of Asturias, visiting almost every corner of the region and giving special attention to the central area and axis of the region’s three largest cities, where for the last century and a half, nature and industry have lived together in diverse industrial environments.

José Manuel Ballester is not an artist of architecture, although the majority of his work is inspired by it. In each composition, he registers presences that are no longer there, that have disappeared or that have not appeared yet. Although his work began three years ago, along with the construction process of the Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre in Avilés, other industrial environments have also gained importance in the project that, finally, has been entitled, Allumar, a word from the Asturian language that has a variety of meanings, including, ‘to illuminate, to give birth and to enchant.’

Image: José Manuel Ballester

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