Joaquim Gomis
dal 30/5/2002 al 31/7/2002
Segnalato da
30/5/2002
Joaquim Gomis
Fundacio Joan Miro', Barcelona
As part of Barcelonas 'Primavera Fotografica 2002' the Joan Miro' Foundation will be organising an exhibition of photographs by Joaquim Gomis (Barcelona, 1902-1991). The show, selected by Juan Naranjo, contains around 150 photographs arranged in six sections.
As part of Barcelonas "Primavera Fotogrà fica 2002" the
Joan Miró Foundation will be organising an exhibition of
photographs by Joaquim Gomis (Barcelona, 1902-1991), a
friend and collaborator of Joan Miró, Josep LluÃs Sert and
Joan Prats and the first president of the Foundations
Board of Trustees.
The show, selected by Juan Naranjo, contains around 150
photographs arranged in six sections: The modern view,
The poetry of objects, "Photoscops", Form - a road to
abstraction, Tormented beauty and The body. His idea is to
illustrate some of the unknown aspects of Gomis output,
such as his photographs of nudes, and at the same time
offer a new interpretation of his work by showing a large
amount of unpublished material.
Joaquim Gomis was one of the first creative artists in
Spain to use a modern language in his photographs, both
in the selection of subjects (urban life, technology,
architecture and advertising) and in his treatment of them
(birds eye and worms eye views, fragmentation and
exploration of form). He developed this personal language
through his choice of shots and frames and his treatment
of light, which gave a poetic air to his photographs.
Together with Joan Prats he created "photoscops", a
compilation of photographs on the same subject arranged
sequentially, which he published in a series of books from
the forties to the sixties. It was from these publications
and from projections and exhibitions that his work became
known to the public, for until then he had taken
photographs for his own purposes and they had not been
seen outside his circle of friends.
Gomis also played a fundamental role in promoting modern
art as a result of his role in setting up ADLAN (Amics de
lArt Nou) and the Club 49. In addition, as a consequence
of his links with Barcelona, he founded and was the first
president of the Associació dAmics de Gaudà and took
part in the creation of the Joan Miró Foundation.
The exhibition aims to make known to a wider public the
work of Joaquim Gomis a man of any talents who was
a collector, businessman, patron of the arts and one of the
most outstanding Spanish photographers of the twentieth
century.
Fundacio Joan Miro
Parc de Montjuïc s/n 08038
Barcelona
t. 934439470