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3/6/2014

PHotoEspana

Different venues, Madrid

For this 17th edition, the Festival will be focussing on Spanish photography, highlighting its richness, energy and sheer variety through a survey of figures and approaches ranging over several generations, from the earliest days of photography right up to today.

The 440 visual artists taking part in PHE14—70% of whom are Spanish—include leading figures such as Josep Renau, Joan Vilatobà, Ortiz Echagüe, Eugeni Forcano, Alberto Schommer, Ramón Masats, Cristina García Rodero, Cristóbal Hara, Alberto García-Alix, Pablo Genovés, Jordi Socías, Pilar Pequeño, Cristina de Middel, Ricky Dávila, Rosell Meseguer, Linarejos Moreno, Miguel Ángel Tornero and Óscar Monzón.

The Festival includes 108 exhibitions curated by experts like Joan Fontcuberta, José María Parreño, Josep Vicent Monzó, Oliva María Rubio, Rafael Levenfeld, Valentín Vallhonrat, Cristina Zelich, Luis Díaz Díaz, Iñaki Domingo, Charlotte Cotton, Iñaki Bergera, Horacio Fernández, María Millán and Julio César Abad.
The venues for PHE14 will be Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Cuenca, Getafe and Zaragoza; although this year, as an exception, 8 exhibitions will be held in six other cities.

Other events on the programme include photography workshops, portfolio viewings, guided tours, family workshops, screenings, a photobook fair and two competitions: A Day in the Life of Madrid and Photographic Memories.

The 17th edition of PHotoEspaña, a festival that was recently awarded the Gold Medal for the Fine Arts, will run from 4 June to 27 July, although many of the exhibitions will stay open throughout August and September.

Trasatlántica PHotoEspaña, a forum for photography and the visual arts in Latin America organised in conjunction with the AECID, will be held in October and December.

PHotoEspaña 2014, the 17th edition of this international Festival of photography and visual arts, will run from 4 June to 27 July 2014, with 108 exhibitions of work by 440 artists, 317 of whom are Spanish and the other 123 of 36 different nationalities.

Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Getafe, Cuenca y Zaragoza will be the venues for the Festival, which this year will be focussing on Spanish photography.
Last March, the Council of Ministers awarded PHotoEspaña the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. The award is a tribute to all the administrations, museums, art centres, galleries, foundations, companies, photographers and cities whose joint efforts and collective commitment year after year ensure the Festival’s success. The award comes at a time when PHotoEspaña is embarking on a new stage in its career. After 17 years, the festival is adopting a different perspective, embracing a whole range of themes and names with a view to providing a plural, multifaceted view of photography. Over the next three years, the Festival programme will be focussing on specific geographical areas, in order to ensure a broader survey of local developments in photography and showcase their force and energy.

PHE14 will explore the visual arts in Spain over the whole of the twentieth century to the present day, even taking in part of the nineteenth century, with a view to showcasing their richness and sheer variety. The programme seeks to give greater coverage to well-known photographers, but also to highlight the work of younger, less-known artists. It aims to surprise, to reappraise the work of certain groups and movements, and to highlight the photography of artists whose careers deserve to be more widely known. By means of this broad programme of exhibitions, PHotoEspaña looks at the past, the present and the likely future, at the native, constantly side by side with the international, at well-known names alongside others that were hitherto largely unknown. It offers a major visual reflection on Spain as the meeting point for a variety of different approaches, creating a lively, organic self-portrait.

See you there. Spanish photography
The exhibition programme for PHotoEspaña 2014 examines the work of classical photographers in exhibitions like Photography in Spain, 1850-1870, at the Biblioteca Nacional de España; this selection from the Library’s photography collection, curated by Isabel Ortega with Amparo Beguer and Belén Palacios, surveys a key period in the history of Spanish photography through an examination of pioneering figures. The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and Calcografía Nacional has teamed up with the University of Navarra to stage José Ortiz Echagüe. North Africa, a wide-ranging selection of portraits, landscapes and architecture photographs taken by Ortiz Echagüe on trips to Morocco, curated by Javier Ortiz Echagüe. The Museo Nacional del Romanticismo will focus on the work of Joan Vilatobà, a leading exponent of Spanish pictorialist photography, in an exhibition curated by Josep Casamartina i Parassols.

Espacio Fundación Telefónica is hosting the first-ever retrospective of a leading Spanish avant-garde photographer. ARISSA. The Shadow and the Photographer. 1922-1936, curated by Valentín Vallhonrat and Rafael Levenfeld, comprises over 160 prints from negative collections held by Fundación Telefónica and the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya. The Museo ICO is organising Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain, 1925-1965, an exhibition curated by Iñaki Bergera which focuses explicitly, for the first time, on the role of photography in Spanish Modernist architecture.

The Fundación Banco Santander is staging three exhibitions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, looking at the past, present and future of Spanish photography. Josep Renau. The American Way of Life, curated by Josep Vicent Monzó, showcases the work of a major exponent of photomontage and poster production, through a series that launches a bitter attack on US imperialism and the American lifestyle. The collective La Palangana is the object of a thorough appraisal curated by José María Parreño, which examines a little-known but crucial episode in the history of Spanish photography, with work by Cantero, Cualladó, de Guzmán, Dolcet, Gómez, Gordillo, Masats, Ontañón, Rubio Camín and Vielba. Finally, Joan Fontcuberta is curating Photography 2.0, an exhibition looking at the work of around twenty photographers born after 1970, which offer a critical review of the changes undergone by Spanish photography in a globalised, post-capitalist world marked by the mass production of images.

The Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC is hosting two exhibitions produced by the General Subdirectorate for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. So Near, So Far. Documentary Photography in the 1970s, organised in conjunction with Fundació Foto Colectania and curated by Cristina Zelich, reviews the work of leading exponents of documentary photography in Spain: Koldo Chamorro, Cristina García Rodero, Cristóbal Hara, Fernando Herráez, Anna Turbau and Ramón Zabalza. In the Memory, curated by Julio César Abad and Oliva María Rubio, builds on the rediscovery of the work of Piedad Isla to examine the work of five other Spanish female photographers exploring the role of memory, in a personal and social sense.

Contemporary creation in Spain is the main focus of an exhibition at the Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa. P2P. Contemporary Practice in Spanish Photography is a project curated by Charlotte Cotton with Luis Díaz Díaz and Iñaki Domingo from the 30y3 team, which examines the most innovative practical and theoretical developments in Spanish photography through the work of 24 artists. The Fundación Lázaro Galdiano has teamed up with the Instituto Polaco de Cultura to look at the interaction between two photography collectives, NOPHOTO and Sputnik, in a joint exhibition entitled Mapping the Blind Spots, which focuses on two countries, Poland and Spain, in a survey of the economic situation and the way it is represented in the media.

Solo shows by Spanish photographers
The programme for PHotoEspaña 2014 includes solo shows by Spanish artists of different generations and with different approaches. Amongst the exhibitions by well-known photographers, the Círculo de Bellas Artes will be the venue for Self-Portrait, a highly-personal survey of the work of Alberto García-Alix, curated by Nicolás Combarro, and Nostos, an equally personal project by Navia, curated by Carmen Martín Eizaguirre. Chema Conesa is the author of Paper Portraits at the Sala Comunidad de Madrid-Alcalá 31, curated by Ramón Masats and Alberto Anaut; while Eugeni Forcano, winner of the 2012 National Photography Prize, is the subject of the retrospective Catching Life at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, curated by Daniel Giralt-Miracle.

The Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales will be looking at the work of Xavier Mulet in M. Ardan, the Great Nineteenth-Century Traveller while Estela de Castro is exhibiting a gallery of around 70 portraits of leading contemporary Spanish photographers at Tabacalera. Espacio Promoción del Arte. The young photographers Sara Ramo and T. S. Abboud will be exhibiting their projects Penumbra and All the Things That Are Not There at Matadero Madrid.

Two exhibitions focussing on the photobook
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Acción Cultural Española are organising Photos and Books. Spain 1905-1977, a survey of the history of Spanish photobooks, curated by Horacio Fernández, which ranges from the early twentieth century to the mid-1970 through a selection of copies belonging to the Museo Reina Sofía’s collection. The Biblioteca Nacional de España is hosting an exhibition of The Best Photobooks of the Year, a selection of around one hundred Spanish and foreign photobooks published during the past year, all of which are candidates for the PHotoEspaña 2014 Award for Best Photobook.

Guest projects
The Official section of PHotoEspaña includes a number of guest projects by foreign photographers. The Fundación Loewe is organising Brushstrokes, a tribute to the charismatic figure of Lillian Bassman curated by María Millán; the Loewe shop on Serrano will host a selection of unique pieces by a woman who revolutionised fashion photography.

The Casa de América is hosting three exhibitions by Latin-American artists: Latent Effect. Ten Latin-American Photographers, jointly organised by Sesc and the Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, looks at works by ten photographers from Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, selected during portfolio viewings by PHE in São Paulo and Caracas; Chile en fiesta, a project by Catalina Darraidou looks at popular festivities all over Chile; and finally, Gigantos by Raquel Brust is a series of supersized portraits of anonymous people projected onto urban elements.

Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Getafe, Cuenca and Zaragoza, venues for PHE14
Cultural institutions, galleries and exhibition spaces in these five towns will be taking in the PHE14 celebration of photography with a rich and varied programme open to all photographic styles and trends.

Alcobendas will be the venue for five solo shows. Around thirty photographs highlighting the career of Marta Soul will be displayed along the Bulevar Salvador Allende. The Centro Cultural Anabel Segura will be hosting the exhibition Just Like That, a new project by Fernando Maquieira. The Centro de Arte Alcobendas is staging exhibitions by the leading contemporary photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia; an American rising star Nancy Newberry, winner of the last Descubrimientos PHotoEspaña award; and the well-known Spanish photographer Rafael Sanz Lobato.
Zaragoza City Council is staging two group shows at the Centro de Historias. History: Artists’ Views questions various ways of representing reality through work by eight artists that highlights the prints, wounds and scars left by history. Witnesses to the Arab Revolts provides an account of the “Arab Spring” as seen through the eyes of six internationally-acclaimed Spanish photojournalists. La Lonja will be exhibiting photographs taken by Rafael Sanz Lobato between 1960 and 2008. Finally, the Carolina Rojo Gallery is organising Photographs G/K, an exhibition of recent work by Luis Gordillo.

For the eighth year running, Cuenca Town Council will be working with PHotoEspaña, with an exhibition at Fundación Antonio Saura. Casa Zavala entitled Surprising Affinities; this group show comprises a selection of photographs by over 120 artists, from the collection of Le Château d’Eau in Toulouse, France.

Alcalá de Henares has worked with PHotoEspaña for the last six years. This year, it is organising Crossroads, an urban exhibition in which pictures from the official section of PHE14 will hang from balconies along the Calle Cardenal Cisneros.
Getafe Town Council is backing PHotoEspaña 2014 with Get your Portrait Taken!, a project in which local residents are invited to sit for leading portrait photographers, and thus play a leading role in an exhibition covering the façade of the Centro de Arte Ciudad de Getafe.

Twenty exhibitions make up OpenPHoto
PHotoEspaña is presenting shows backed by foreign embassies and cultural institutes, schools, museums and foundations as part of its OpenPHoto programme. The Alliance Française de Madrid is hosting a retrospective of winning entries in its photo competition. CentroCentro Cibeles is staging three exhibitions: A Day in the Life of Madrid; Guests of the Present; and work entered for the Fundación ONCE 5th International Art Biennial. The Casa de Velázquez is organising a group show by photographers attached every year to the Institution. COAM is hosting NYC – TYO by Manuel San Frutos, organised by Samsung- Fnac Callao is exhibiting work by Manuel Zamora, winner of the PHE OjodePez Award for Human Values, while Fnac Castellana is hosting work by Sofía Moro. Fundación ONCE’s Galería Cambio de Sentido is presenting a project by Koen Suidgeest. At the Galerie du 10, the Institut Français de Madrid is staging Encounters in Contemporary Photography 1+1=12. The Hotel de las Letras is the venue for the group show The Passing Gaze. España; while the Goethe-Institut Madrid is exhibiting work by André Lützen and Julian Röder. Photos by Simona Rota will be on show at the Instituto Cultural Rumano. The Fundación Mutua Madrileña Gallery will be showcasing the winning entries for its online competition Sport and Values, while the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas is presenting work by Mindaugas Grabenas in a show organised by the Lithuanian Embassy. There will also be exhibitions at Blank Paper, EFTI, the Escuela Universitaria de Artes y Espectáculos-TAI, the Istituto Europeo di Design and Real Sociedad Fotográfica.

41 art galleries are involved in Festival Off
Festival Off comprises a selection of exhibitions organised by Madrid’s private art galleries. Forty-one photo and video projects will make up this section, which aims to promote and develop the photography market. One of these galleries will receive the Festival Off Award, given every year by an independent jury to the gallery hosting the best exhibition.

PHE14 in Almería, Cádiz, Logroño, London, Toulouse and Arles
As an exception, and to mark the focus of this year’s festival on Spanish photography, the programme will for the first time include exhibitions hosted by the Andalusian Photography Centre in Almería, the Kursala in Cádiz, and La Casa de la Imagen in Logroño. Thanks to international partnerships, work by Chema Madoz will be shown at Les Rencontres d’Arles, and photographs by Ricky Dávila at the 12 Star Gallery in London, while the group show Inhabited Landscapes will be staged at Le Château d’Eau in Toulouse.

Photographic Memories competition, and workshops for children and young people at Fundación Canal
PHotoEspaña and Fundación Canal are jointly organising Photographic Memories, a competition in which entrants are invited to create an exhibition of their own memory by selecting and combining medium-format pictures by leading Spanish photographers. After explaining their choice and telling their own story on camera, their videos will be uploaded to the competition website, and a jury will select the best story and two runners- up. Also, on several Saturdays in May and June, the water tower and gardens of the Fundación will be the venue for workshops aimed at getting children and young people used to the principles of digital photography.

A Day in the Life of Madrid
Madrid City Council, Samsung and PHotoEspaña are organising the online competition A Day in the Life of Madrid, which aims to create a huge, collective portrait of everything happening in Madrid in the course of 24 hours. The 24 best photographs will be screened in the Plaza de Callao and will later be exhibited at the CentroCentro Cibeles.

COAM will be the venue for the exhibition NYC – TYO, by Manuel San Frutos, a project exploring two great metropolises through photographs published in real time thanks to the total 4G connectivity and image quality of the Samsung Galaxy NX.

Flashing, Dazzling, Breaking Away. Screenings at Espacio Fundación Telefónica
From 4-6 June, Fundación Telefónica and PHotoEspaña are organising a programme of screenings covering a wide-ranging selection of work by contemporary Spanish photographers. The programme, directed by Alejandro Castellote comprises three sections: Heavy Metals, No Comment and Blurred Boundaries. Each section, curated by Manuel Sonseca, Julián Barón and Nerea Ubieto, respectively, will be accompanied by a round table discussion of various aspects of artistic creation.

Photography Training for Professionals
In 2014, PHotoEspaña has organised portfolio viewings in São Paulo and Caracas, within the framework of Trasatlántica PHotoEspaña. The Madrid event, Descubrimientos PHE, will be held from 3 to 5 June at the Centro de Arte Alcobendas. Seventy previously-selected photographers will show their work to 22 photography experts, including: Kim Knoppers, curator at the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam; Pippa Oldfield, head of programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Itala Schmelz, director of the Centro de la Imagen; and Roger Tooth, head of photography at The Guardian, The Observer and guardian.co.uk.

PHotoEspaña and the Madrid Regional Government are organising Campus PHE Grandes Maestros, a series of photography workshops led by internationally-acclaimed photographers. Rafal Milach, Jordi Bernadó and Ricky Dávila will run two-day workshops at various venues in Madrid during June. This year, Fundación Banco Sabadell is offering a programme of grants for students. To mark the exhibition Photography 2.0, Joan Fontcuberta will give a master class at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

Zaragoza will be hosting a new edition of Campus PHE Book Publishing, aimed at photographers who are currently working on publishing projects. This year’s lecturer will be Juan Valbuena.

For the second year running, Lanzarote is organising the PHotoWalk, where participants travel around the island with photographer Ricardo Cases, gaining a chance to record their surroundings, discuss their own photographic experiences and learn new techniques.

Activities for all the public
TheFestival offers guided tours round the various exhibitions, and family workshops aimed at familiarising families with the whole exhibition programme. La Fábrica will be hosting two public activities: a Photobook Fair comprising around one hundred self-edited and self-published photobooks, and Talk PHoto. From Photography to Contemporary Communication, a working session and conversation about photography and communication with graphic designers and art directors who have worked with PHotoEspaña, organised by Nadie. The Creative Think Tank. Cineteca Matadero will be screening Don’t Call Me a War Photographer, a CANAL + documentary about a new generation of Spanish photojournalists. CANAL+ will also be offering a selection of festival content via CANAL+XTRA and YOMVI.

PHotoEspaña Goes Underground
The Madrid Metro is joining forces with PHotoEspaña to create an unexpected new exhibition space. Travellers on the Metro will be able to take part in the Festival through posters on station platforms, which will give them access to an exclusive selection of pictures from the Festival.

smart, official PHotoEspaña car
Since 2005, smart has been the official car for PHotoEspaña. Every year, it has supported the Festival by providing Mobile Information Points. Five smart cars will drive around the city giving visitors all the information they need to make the most of the Festival.

PHotoEspaña Books
Every year, PHE publishes the most useful guide to Festival exhibitions and events, the Guía PHE. Three art centres will be publishing catalogues for their exhibitions: Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain, 1925-1965; La Palangana; and Chema Conesa. Masterpieces. All these can be purchased at bookshops and official PHotoEspaña sales outlets.

Image: Gustavo Lacerda. "Marcus, Andreza and André". From the series "Albinos", 2014 © Gustavo Lacerda

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