FACE TO FACE The portrait at Foto Colectania Collection

Texts in English Exhibition

Idea and production Fundació Foto Colectania

Curator Pepe Font de Mora

Production of the adaptation of the exhibition for its circulation Culture. Arts Promotion Office of the Provincial Council of Barcelona

Circulation Culture. Arts Promotion Office of the Provincial Council of Barcelona Participating councils

Graphic design Fons Gràfic

Educational service A Bao A Qu

Related activities A Bao A Qu Fundació Foto Colectania

Transport and setting Jorge Bravo

Frames Acutangle

Insurance Willis

Catalogue

Editing and production Press and Communications Department

Technical coordination Culture. Arts Promotion Office of the Provincial Council of Barcelona

Design and layout Fons Gràfic

Printing Agpograf, SL

Photographs © Alberto García-Alix, António Júlio Duarte, Inês Gonçalves, Jorge Couto Guerra, Humberto Rivas, Rafael Sanz Lobato, Alberto Schommer, Miguel Trillo, Toni Vidal, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2013

© Of the other authors, the authors themselves

Cover photograph Alberto García-Alix. Benedicte, 1987

A selection of pictures from the exhibition can be found in the Catalan version of this catalogue

2 At the Diputació de Barcelona (Barcelona Provincial Council) we are strongly committed to backing those cultural initiatives that aim to bring creative talent to the wider public. That’s why, in conjunction with the Foto Colectania Foundation and based on their photographic collection, we have organised the travelling exhibition entitled “Face to Face”. The display explores the portrait genre from the 1950s to the present day and is made up of numerous photographs, texts, a space for documentation, an education service and related complementary activities. This catalogue presents a work by each of the photographers featured in the exhibition: Josep M. Casademont, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Francesc Català-Roca, Toni Catany, Joan Colom, Gabriel Cualladó, António Júlio Duarte, Manuel Ferrol, Albert Fortuny, Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Inês Gonçalves, Jorge Guerra, Fernando Lemos, Ramón Masats, Xavier Miserachs, Nicolás Muller, Leopoldo Pomés, Humberto Rivas, Pablo San Juan, Rafael Sanz Lobato, Alberto Schommer, Ricard Terré, Miguel Trillo and Antoni Vidal. Since the late 1990s, the Diputació de Barcelona has presented travelling exhibitions in the province’s town councils by means of the Visual Arts Programme of the Office of Artistic Promotion (ODA). The objective of this initiative is to give support to local policies promoting contemporary art and contributing to the training and professionalisation of municipal visual art technicians, as well as providing town councils with contemporary art dissemination projects, mainly travelling exhibitions, and offering services and resources linked to the displays for educating audiences. The methodology of this programme is focused on working on the basis of town councils’ needs, diversity and potential; collaborating with institutions, curators, artists, companies and professionals of reference; and seeking a balance between excellence and dissemination.

3 I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the cooperation provided by the Foto Colectania Foundation, the collaboration of all town councils taking part in this travelling initiative and the work of the professionals involved in making this face to face possible. Our intention is to offer resources to visitors to contextualise, explore in depth and open a dialogue with the subjects and philosophy of the exhibition and with the artists participating in it, contributing, in short, to an enriching coming- together of contemporary art and the people in our towns.

Mireia Hernàndez Deputy Member for Culture of the Diputació de Barcelona

4 The Foto Colectania Foundation is a private, non-profit organisation founded in Barcelona in 2002 with the aim of promoting photography and encouraging photography collecting through exhibitions, activities (conferences, seminars, trips) and catalogue editions. Foto Colectania has its own photography collection that comprises more than 3,000 works by Spanish and Portuguese authors from 1950 until today. It also has a library with free access to the public and a conservation vault, where the photography collection is stored together with photographer Paco Gómez’s archive (donated by his family in 2001) and the deposit of several private collections. The Foto Colectania Foundation has always sought the alliance and involvement of organisations and institutions, be they public or private, to carry out its activity. A significant part of its work consists in the programme of travelling exhibitions, the aim of which is to share and disseminate the Foto Colectania collection at both the national and international level. The “Face to Face” exhibition, jointly organised with the Diputació de Barcelona provincial government, responds to this spirit of cooperation and diffusion of the Foundation.

Foto Colectania Foundation

5 Photography changed our way of seeing and thinking about art. Concepts as elementary as perspective, movement or capturing the moment were redefined from the appearance of this discipline. Following the 19th century, painting was obliged to reinvent itself and find new paths. It was the painted portrait however which most suffered that profound transformation, losing its documentary function due to the proliferation of photographs. A good deal of this transformation was motivated, on the one hand, by the democratisation of the cartes de visite, a type of small photograph which, as its name indicates, was used as a calling card. And on the other hand, it was driven by the change in paradigm represented by maintaining a pose for seconds for a photo to be taken, instead of the days required to be portrayed in paint. The word portrait comes from the Middle French of the 1560s, being the past participle of portraire, meaning to portray or depict. Through photography, “Face to Face” shows how the portrait concept has evolved beyond its etymological definition, how it has progressed from mere representation, and reminds us that the genre has been one of the most attractive forms of this medium, as it refers to something extremely close to us: ourselves, and other people. The “Face to Face” exhibition is a magnificent model of collaboration between public and private organisations which has been made possible thanks to the Diputació de Barcelona’s Office of Artistic Promotion (ODA). Rather than a general review of the photographic portrait, the display sets out to showcase outstanding examples of Spanish and Portuguese photography from the 1950s up to the present day, through the Foto Colectania collection. It explores various kinds of portraiture and re-

6 examines this genre by employing different sub-themes, both at the formal level with close-ups, group photos and body language, as well as at the portrait level, with children and adolescents, celebrities and self- portraits. Humberto Rivas often said that during photographic sessions and precisely due to the subject’s awareness of being in front of the camera, a dispute would develop, on occasions a bitter struggle, between the image the subject wished to project and that which the photographer was attempting to reveal. Photographers know that this face to face can have only one winner.

Pepe Font de Mora Director of Foto Colectania Foundation and curator of the exhibition

7 Josep Maria Casademont

(Barcelona, 1928-1994)

Josep Maria Casademont was Biographies a photographer, teacher and photography editor and one of the driving forces behind the Barcelona photography scene of the 1960s and 70s. He directed the Sala Aixelà gallery from 1959 to the mid-seventies, where he organised numerous photographic exhibitions, such as “Terré, Miserachs, Masats II”, “Colom, Maspons y Ubiña”, “Paco Gómez y Gabriel Cualladó” and “Mario Giacomelli”. He also brought now well-known authors like Toni Catany, Colita, Jordi Blassi, Ton Sirera, Manel Esclusa and Joan Fontcuberta to the public attention. In 1963 he created the magazine Imagen y Sonido, which was published up to 1975 following an editorial line very close to photographic documentalism and the work of photography associations. Casademont was also a pioneer in many other fields, such as cinema, and was one of the first to attempt to systematise the history of Spanish photography. In 1978 the Gustavo Gili publishing house commissioned him to compile the appendix corresponding to Peter Tausk’s book on the history of Spanish photography. The Casademont archive may be found in the Museu d’Art Contemporani in Barcelona, where it is currently being inventoried. Further information: www.macba.com

8 Juan Manuel Castro Prieto Francesc Català-Roca

(Madrid, 1958) (Valls, Tarragona, 1922 – Barcelona, 1998)

A self-taught photographer, Juan Francesc Català-Roca worked and Manuel Castro Prieto’s relationship learned the photography profession with the medium began in 1977. with his father, Pere Català i Pic, who Following years of practice and a was one of the leading representatives member from the early 1980s of of Catalan avant-garde photography. the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Francesc Català-Roca became Madrid (Royal Photographic Society independent in 1948, opening his own of Madrid), he opened the “Contraluz” laboratory and embarking on a long laboratory. In 1990 he travelled to and influential personal career. He Cuzco, Peru, to print the photographic collaborated in numerous publications, plates produced by Martin Chambi, the such as Destino, Gaceta Ilustrada and fruit of his experiences in that country La Vanguardia. Under commission subsequently appearing in the form of by gallery owner and patron Aimé his book Perú, viaje al sol (Peru, Trip Maeght, he began to do reports to the Sun), which was accompanied on plastic artists, including Joan by an exhibition presented in Madrid, Miró (with whom he enjoyed a close Paris and Bolzano (Italy), among other friendship), Chillida and Guinovart, cities. Castro Prieto’s work has been among others. In 1983 he received the awarded several prizes, outstanding National Plastic Arts Prize from the among which are the PHotoEspaña Spanish Ministry of Culture, awarded Bartolomé Ros Award in 2002 for to a photographer for the first time, his career as an author, and the and in 1992 was presented with the Community of Madrid Photography National Plastic Arts Prize of the Award, which gave rise to the Government of Catalonia. Several exhibition and catalogue of the same extensive anthological exhibitions title, Extraños (Strangers). have been dedicated to him, of note Further information: among them those of the Centre d’Art www.castroprieto.com Santa Mònica (1997), the Joan Miró Foundation (2002), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2003) and more recently at the Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation (2010). His archive and legacy is managed by his sons and the Association of Architects of Catalonia. Further information: www.catala-roca.com

9 Toni Catany Joan Colom

(Llucmajor, Mallorca, 1942) (Barcelona, 1921)

Toni Catany began very early on to Joan Colom came into contact with experiment with non-conventional photography at the age of 36 when he photographic techniques. Following joined the Agrupació Fotogràfica de years spent learning on an old Catalunya (Photographic Association camera, he started a series of of Catalonia). He also joined the El black-and-white photographs using Mussol (The Owl) group, made up by the calotype process (negatives on photographers such as Jordi Munt and paper and copies printed through Ignasi Marroyo, with whom he shared contact). Whilst carrying out his work the same effervescent and innovative with the calotypes that brought him spirit focused on direct photography international fame he continued to lacking aestheticism. Colom roamed use more conventional techniques to the streets of Barcelona’s Raval photograph (first in black and white district constantly. With the ability to and later in colour) the recurring go unnoticed and with a surprising themes in his work: landscapes, still sense of rhythm and movement, he lifes and nudes. He has published captured the neighbourhood’s most reportages on Israel, Libya, Egypt and unusual and day-to-day scenes the Balearic Islands, among others, without interfering in its reality. In and books have been published of 2002 Joan Colom received the National many of his series. His work forms Photography Prize from the Spanish part of important collections and Ministry of Culture in recognition has been exhibited both in Spain and of the historic value of his personal internationally. contribution to Spanish photography. He also received the National Visual Arts Prize in 2004, as well as other artistic and cultural awards in more recent years. The exhibition “Raval”, curated by Agnès Sire and using works from the Foto Colectania collection, was presented at the Henri Cartier- Bresson Foundation in Paris in 2006, and subsequently travelled to the Folkwang Museum in Essen (Germany) and the FOAM in Amsterdam. In 2006 the Steidl publishing house published the book of the same title. In 2012 Joan Colom donated his archive to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

10 Gabriel Cualladó António Júlio Duarte

(Massanassa, 1925 – Madrid, 2003) (Lisbon, 1965)

Gabriel Cualladó moved to Madrid in António Júlio Duarte studied 1941, where a decade later he took photography at ArCo, a school which his first photographs. A member of is fundamental to understanding the the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de importance of the 1990s generation Madrid (Royal Photographic Society of Portuguese photographers. Like of Madrid), in 1957 he joined the other members of this group, he had Asociación Fotográfica Almeriense solid training – rounded off at the (AFAL – Photographic Association of Royal College of Art in London – in Almeria) and came into contact with addition to a certain unease with other photographers who shared his international artistic movements and innovative interest in photography. a vocation for developing a creative He was successful in numerous career in photography. He worked with competitions, though popular acclaim the weekly magazine Expresso from would arrive with his being awarded 1989 to 1992 and won the prestigious the first National Photography Prize by Kodak Award in Portugal in 1990. He the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1994 has taken part in the festivals of Braga and his work being deposited in the and Coimbra, as well as in projects IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), such as “Still” for the Museo das as a result of the solo exhibition Comunicaçoes, and “Macau”, along devoted to him in this museum in with Paulo Nozolino in Culturgest. 1989. His vocation as an amateur Duarte continues to produce personal photographer was matched by his series, such as “Oriente Ocidente – enthusiasm as a collector, a field in East West” and “Peepshow”. which he was pioneer in Spain. Further information: www.antoniojulioduarte.pt

11 Manuel Ferrol Albert Fortuny

(Cabo Vilano, 1923 – A Coruña, 2003) (Barcelona, 1946)

Manuel Ferrol abandoned his Albert Fortuny began as a professional engineering studies to take up photographer in 1966. Since then photography. He opened his first studio and in addition to his work for in Betanzos in 1950, moving to Vigo in numerous publishing houses and 1953 and finally settling in cultural institutions he has developed A Coruña in 1955, where he specialised an intense artistic activity as a in portrait photography and set out photographer, with personal projects on his career as a photojournalist. focused mainly on the theatrical world. From 1953 he worked in documentary Of particular interest are the two film as a still photographer, and books he has had published, Un segon some years later for the No-Do de moltes taules (Ed. de l’Eixample, and the Spanish broadcaster TVE. 1994) and El Teatre del Teatre (Ed. In 1957 the Comisión Católica de Triangle, 2000), both centred around Emigración (Catholic Emigration the theatre. His work has been shown Commission) commissioned him to in countless monographic exhibitions, make a reportage about the massive outstanding among which were those embarkation of emigrants from A presented in the Barcelona Textile and Coruña, a project which would lead Clothing Museum, the Spanish Centre to his wider recognition and the more in Perpignan, the Tartessos Gallery extensive dissemination of his work. in Barcelona, the Malic Theatre and, Manuel Ferrol was posthumously under the title “A RAJATABLA”, in awarded the Bronze Medal of Galicia. Barcelona’s Caligrama Gallery. Further information: Further information: www.manuelferrol.com www.albertfortuny.com

12 Alberto García-Alix Cristina García Rodero

(León, 1956) (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1949)

In 1976 Alberto García-Alix published Cristina García Rodero graduated in his first photos in the magazine Star. Fine Arts in 1972 from the Faculty Some five years later he held his first of Fine Arts of the Complutense solo exhibition in the Buades Gallery University of Madrid, but as early in Madrid and subsequently directed as in 1968 she had already begun together with Ceesepe the short film taking photographs in the university El día que muera Bombita (The Day world. In 1973 she initiated a project Bombita Dies). In 1989 he established researching and gathering data on the group La Tripulación and the festivities, traditions and rites, first magazine El Canto de la Tripulación. in Spain and subsequently in other In the 1990s he launched the book parts of the world. The results seemed Bikers (1994) and in 1998 presented to confirm, incessantly, that truth is his retrospective exhibition (1977- stranger than fiction, and to explain 1998) in the Círculo de Bellas Artes in a kind of exoticism to which we feel Madrid, along with its corresponding in some way drawn. Her relationship book-catalogue. He received the with the land, rural life, the cycle National Photography Prize in 1999, of the seasons and the weather is and since then has exhibited in profound and personal. Cristina García numerous centres, with his work being Rodero has participated twice in the represented by the Juana de Aizpuru, Venice Biennale and has been awarded Chantal Crousel and Kamel Mennour numerous prizes, notable among galleries. Though his entire career which are the Planeta Photography has been dedicated to photography, Prize (1983), the New York based clearly recognisable and falling within Eugene Smith Prize for Humanistic the category of black-and-white Photography for her project entitled documentary stills of both a social Vida tradicional, fiestas, cultos y ritos and personal nature, since his long en el Mediterráneo Europeo (1989) stays in France and China in 2007 and (Traditional life, festivals, cults and 2008 he has made a surprising foray rites in the European Mediterranean), into video to document his images, the 1996 National Photography Prize which he accompanies with his own from the Spanish Ministry of Culture voice and texts. He has held numerous and, in 2000, the Bartolomé Ros exhibitions, outstanding among which Award for the “best professional track was the retrospective “De donde no record in photography in Spain”. She is se vuelve” (2008) in the Museo Reina currently a member of the prestigious Sofía in Madrid. Magnum Agency. Further information: Further information: www.albertogarciaalix.com www.magnumphotos.com

13 Inês Gonçalves Jorge Guerra

(Málaga, 1964) (Lisbon, 1936)

Inês Gonçalves studied photography Jorge Guerra created a good deal of in London and has since developed an his most emblematic work during intense and wide-ranging professional the 1960s. In addition to photography experience. She worked in the press, he has carried out other activities on the weekly newspaper related to design and the cinema, and O Independente, was photographic he directed the Canadian magazine editor of the magazine Kapa and OVO for more than ten years. The has collaborated regularly on the sadness and authenticity of his 1967 illustration of books. In recent years photographic chronicle of Lisbon in the she has concentrated more closely times of the dictatorship earned him on fashion. Among other venues, her a place in the annals of Portuguese work has been exhibited in the Círculo post-war photography. He was the de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Paris subject of an anthological exhibition International Fashion Photography in the Cultural Centre of Belém in Festival and the Encontros de 2000, which presented works produced Fotografia in Coimbra. Such exhaustive during the exodus which took him to activity has not however prevented her Angola, London, Italy, Mexico and, from taking on more personal work, finally, Canada. such as the Cape Verde project, which she was able to realise thanks to the support of the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Photography Centre. The easily recognisable portrait and landscape roots of Inês Gonçalves creative style result in commissions such as her recent book on Goa appearing increasingly more like personal undertakings.

14 Fernando Lemos Ramón Masats

(Lisbon, 1926) (Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, 1931)

Fernando Lemos studied painting at Ramón Masats began working as the National Society of the Fine Arts a press photographer for various (SNBA) in Lisbon and started out as a newspapers. He was soon recognised designer in the world of advertising. for his work as a photojournalist and Closely linked to Portuguese surrealist his special intuition for capturing groups, he is considered the leading the most immediate reality without representative of this movement in manipulating it. In 1957 he moved photography, with his most valued to Madrid, and from there travelled work being produced between 1949 around the peninsula working as and 1953. He moved to Brazil in a photographer for the magazine 1952. He describes himself as having Gaceta Ilustrada. That same year done something of everything in he joined the AFAL (Photographic life and as having two homelands, Association of Almeria) group, and the one that made him and the together with photographers Gabriel one he helped make. An amateur Cualladó, Francisco Ontañón and Paco by conviction, he experiences the Gómez, founded the group called La photographic process as a puzzle of Palangana. Since 1965 Masats has the unconscious through the highly been combining his photographic intuitive overexposure of negatives, practice with cinema and the creation be they of the portraits he made of his of documentaries. He has published colleagues in the surrealist group or of several books, and his work has been the structured settings he creates for exhibited on numerous occasions, of his compositions. In 1994 the Modern note among them the retrospective at Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid Foundation in Lisbon dedicated a in 1999. He was awarded the National retrospective exhibition to his work. Photography Prize in 2004. Further information: Further information: www.fernandolemos.org www.ramonmasats.com

15 Xavier Miserachs Nicolás Muller

(Barcelona, 1937-1998) (Orosháza, Hungary, 1913 – Asturias, 2000)

Xavier Miserachs abandoned his Nicolás Muller spent his youth in medical studies to devote himself Orosháza, studying law and political entirely to photography. A member sciences. The Nazis’ persecution of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de of Jews led to his moving to Paris Catalunya (Photographic Association in 1944, where he worked with of Catalonia), he presented his first such magazines as Regards, France exhibition there in 1957 together Magazine and Paris Match and with photographers Ricard Terré established contact with Picasso, and Ramón Masats, subsequently Brassaï and Capa, among others. having a second version of the display Following a brief stay in Portugal and shown at the Sala Aixelà gallery. A nine years in Tangiers, Muller was tireless traveller, he collaborated on invited by the Revista de Occidente many magazines and newspapers, to hold an exhibition in Madrid. In including the Gaceta Ilustrada, Interviú, 1947 he finally settled down in the La Vanguardia and Bazaar. Xavier Spanish capital, where he opened a Miserachs is counted among the photographic studio in which he would photographers that best reflected take many of his famous portraits the oppressive atmosphere in Spain of intellectuals of the day. Muller between the post-war period and held solo exhibitions in Tetuan and the economic boom of the 1960s, Tangiers, as well as in Spanish cities incorporating the refreshing trends of such as Madrid and Barcelona. In 1985 the new international documentalism. the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias This period and its images are devoted a major display to him entitled recorded in his book Barcelona. Blanc “Instantáneas de una vida”, and i negre (1964). Alongside his work two years later he took part in two in journalism and publishing, for significant exhibition projects, the first many years he worked intensely to in Pamplona with “Diálogos con la disseminate photography. He was a luz”, and the other in Lyon (France), cofounder of the Eina School of Art with the collective display dedicated and Design and its first photography to Spanish photographers “Echos professor. Miserachs died in 1998, d’Espagne”. In 1998 he participated in the same year he received the Creu the exhibition “La Escuela de Madrid” de Sant Jordi (Cross of Saint George) at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo awarded by the Government of in Madrid, sponsored by the Spanish Catalonia. A highlight among the Ministry of Culture. That same year different displays of his work that have and on the occasion of his seventy-fifth been held was the 1992 anthological birthday, his native town of Orosháza exhibition “Xavier Miserachs. 1 segon dedicated an exhibition to him and he i 25 centèsimes” (Xavier Miserachs. 1 revisited his birthplace as a guest of Second and 25 Hundredths) curated the Hungarian government. A major by Alain Dupuy. This photographer’s retrospective of his work was held archive is currently deposited in in Madrid in 1994, accompanied by the Museu d’Art Contemporani in publication of the corresponding Barcelona. catalogue Nicolás Muller Fotógrafo. Further information: www.miserachs.com 16 Leopoldo Pomés Humberto Rivas

(Barcelona, 1931) (Buenos Aires, 1937 – Barcelona, 2009)

Leopoldo Pomés acquired his first In parallel to his work as a painter, camera in 1946. In the 1950s he came in 1955 Humberto Rivas extended his into contact with the avant-garde production to include photography. group Dau al Set, formed among In 1957 he studied Fine Arts at the others by the poet Joan Brossa and Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos painters Tàpies, Ponç and Cuixart. Aires and was appointed photographer The first exhibition of his work for the Instituto Torcuato di Tella. took place in 1955 in the Galeries He would not move to Barcelona Laietanes in Barcelona. Since then until 1976, but as from then he he has not ceased to work and show complemented his artistic activity with his creations in such institutions as that of teaching photography in various the Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía schools, including the IDEP and (1995), the Palau de La Virreina (1997), Fórum, as well as at the universities the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid of Salamanca, Cantabria and Terrassa. (2001) and the Michael Hoppen Gallery Rivas’ photographic oeuvre has (2010). His work may be found in become consolidated as the paradigm the collections of the MNAC (Museu of sobriety and simplicity, qualities Nacional d’Art de Catalunya), the amply displayed in his series of IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), portraits and landscapes. He received the Foto Colectania Foundation the National Photography Prize from and the Mick Jagger Collection. In the Spanish Ministry of Culture in parallel to photography, Leopoldo 1996. Pomés developed his professional Further information: career in the world of advertising and www.humbertorivas.com institutional communication, where he created campaigns which have transformed him into one of the most respected names in the sector. In 2006 he abandoned this field to dedicate himself exclusively to his photographic work. In 2012 the Foto Colectania Foundation recovered one of Pomés’ hitherto unpublished projects through the exhibition and book entitled Barcelona 1957.

17 Pablo San Juan Rafael Sanz Lobato

(Logroño, 1960) (Seville, 1932)

Since 1989, Pablo San Juan has Sanz Lobato enrolled in the Real worked as a freelance photojournalist, Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid (Royal collaborating with a variety of Photographic Society of Madrid) in newspapers and magazines. His 1964, only to leave a few months later. projects have taken him to Asia In 1966 he founded the La Colmena and the Middle East as well as to (Beehive) group alongside other numerous countries of Europe, photographers including Corcho, Africa and Latin America. His works Sigfrido de Guzmán, Canedo and have also been published in various de Blas, and in 1972 participated in signature books, such as Monzón, the creation of the Grupo-5 together the Frontera series and Visión with Corcho, Vila Masip, Sanchis Mediterránea, whose exhibitions Soler and Sáenz. A pioneer of the have been shown in venues in Spain, anthropologically-based humanistic Morocco, France and England. In his reportage, Sanz Lobato is one of the latest work, Botánica, he abandons the most significant and at the same time documentary line to throw himself into forgotten members of what came to still lifes, employing a technique which be known as the “Madrid School”. His dates back to the analogue mediums, photographs have been exhibited in more specifically, one based on the Sala Aixelà gallery in Barcelona Polaroid photographs. Pablo San Juan (1971) and the Colegio del Rey is currently based in Valencia. Foundation in Alcalá de Henares (1990) Further information: and published in various magazines, www.pablosanjuan.net catalogues and yearbooks, including Imagen y Sonido, Nueva Lente and Fotógrafos de la Escuela de Madrid (1988). In 1996 he brought together his most recent portraits in the exhibition entitled “Rafael Lobato. Retratos”, and in 2010 he participated, alongside Cristóbal Hara, in the “Trabajos de campo” exhibition, organised by the Foto Colectania Foundation. Since his very beginnings, Sanz Lobato has produced photography focused on traditional scenes of country life, provincial towns, festive traditions and portraits. In 2003 he received the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts for his body of anthropological documentary work, and in 2011 he was awarded the National Photography Prize.

18 Alberto Schommer Ricard Terré

(Vitoria, 1928) (Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, 1928 – Vigo, 2009)

Alberto Schommer was introduced Ricard Terré began in the art world as to photography by his father, Alberto a painter and caricaturist, and did not Schommer Koch, a German living in begin to practice photography until Vitoria, the city in which he opened 1955, when he came into contact with a studio in the 1940s. Alberto members of the Agrupació Fotogràfica Schommer junior moved to Madrid de Catalunya (Photographic in 1966, where he soon rose to fame. Association of Catalonia). In 1958 In 1971 he received the prize for the he joined the AFAL (Photographic best industrial documentary, and Association of Almeria) group, and three years later held two important went on to become part of its steering exhibitions, “La dulce violencia” and committee and to participate in all of “Tierra fermentada”. He was elected its activities. At the end of the 1960s best photographer of the year in 1979. he gave up photography, but took Schommer’s photographic oeuvre it up again in 1982, participating in reflects the history of Spain, and the various collective and solo exhibitions. author himself has declared that He is considered one of the most “photography is the authentic witness outstanding photographers of his of time”. The setting, clothing, make- generation, and his international up and objects all play an important exposure grew further at the hand role in his portraits. His most brilliant of the Vu agency in Paris. In 2008 he works include Relatos psicológicos, received the Bartolomé Ros Award Descubrimientos, Máscaras and for the best career in photography, Actitudes. In Documentos Schommer awarded by the PHotoEspaña (1996) he creates a visual chronicle photography festival. Outstanding of his 20 years of life in Spain, since among his many series are those 1975. He is now a photographer of dedicated to Easter Week and the recognised prestige to whom the religious world. Spanish government awarded the Further information: 2008 Medal of Merit in Fine Arts. www.ricardterre.com Schommer has been a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) since 1996.

19 Miguel Trillo Antoni Vidal

(Jimena de la Frontera, Cadiz, 1953) (Menorca, 1934)

Miguel Trillo has documented the A distant relative of the photographer evolution of the young urban tribes of Lorenzo Miguel, Antoni Vidal entered Spain. He began to photograph young the world of the image at the hand people in his immediate surroundings of Pedro Martorell. His photographic in the 1970s, moving in the 1980s to production in Menorca from 1951 to Madrid where he portrayed people in 1968 focused on the preservation the “movida” (the Madrilenian scene). of natural environments, with rural It was during this period that he held architecture, landscapes, portraiture his first exhibitions, first in the Ovidio and the work of artisans being Gallery (1982) and the Sala Amadís recurring themes in his photographs. (1983) and subsequently in the h2O He began to work as a professional Gallery (2004). He took part, in 2007, in photographer in 1968 in Barcelona, the “Recorridos” exhibition, organised presenting his first exhibition in the by the Foto Colectania Foundation and Sala Aixelà gallery. This was also the presented in Oviedo and Barcelona. In venue for the exhibition that would the early 1990s he produced a portrait bring him greater renown, “Artistas of Spanish youth in small provincial catalanes contemporáneos” (1970), capitals for the El País newspaper. showing portraits of 19 prominent Miguel Trillo has lived in Barcelona Catalan artists and writers of the day, since 1994. among them Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. He went on to hold numerous displays at both the national and international levels. His most poetic and sensual spirit is abundantly present in the works he produced in the 1990s, such as Vegetales and Vestidos de cebolla. Antoni Vidal developed a long and accomplished professional career characterised by its versatility and technical mastery in a photographic oeuvre which is coherent and full of lyrical feeling, and which manages to highlight the dignity and beauty of the simplest of things.

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Cerdanyola del Vallès Martorell 15th May – 28th July 2013 9th May – 22nd June 2014 Museu d’Art de Cerdanyola Muxart. Espai d’Art i Creació Contemporanis C/ Sant Martí, 88. Cerdanyola del Vallès Pl. de les Hores, s/n. Martorell Tel.: 935 914 130 Tel.: 937 742 233 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Cornellà de Llobregat Mollet del Vallès 5th September – 26th October 2013 27th June – 21st September 2014 Espai d’Art Moritz. Centre Cultural Joan N. Museu Municipal Joan Abelló García-Nieto C/ Berenguer III, 122. Mollet del Vallès C/ Mossèn Andreu, 17. Cornellà de Llobregat Tel.: 935 445 099 933 779 911 (ext. 1480) E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Web: www.museuabello.cat nou.cornellaweb.com/ca/cultura.asp Igualada Caldes de Montbui 26th September - 16th November 2014 10th January - 2nd March 2014 Museu de la Pell d’Igualada i Comarcal de Thermalia. Museu de Caldes de Montbui l’Anoia Pl. Font del Lleó, 20. Caldes de Montbui C/ Doctor Joan Mercader, s/n. Igualada Tel.: 938 654 140 Tel.: 938 046 752 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.thermalia.cat www.igualada.cat

Terrassa 8th March – 24th April 2014 Sala Muncunill Pl. Didó, 3. Terrassa Tel.: 937 397 000 / 937 887 080 [email protected] www.terrassa.cat/artsvisuals

Oficina de Difusió Artística Comte d’Urgell, 187 - Edifici del Rellotge - 1a planta 08036 Barcelona Tel. 934 022 683 [email protected] www.diba.cat/cultura