The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards

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1 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards The Gaze in the Other is a collective anthological exhibition by a wide variety of photographes awarded all of whom have been awarded the Spanish National Photography Prize. The exhibition, curated by Carmen de la Guerra and Javier Díez, has been displayed as an anthology comprising the last sixty years of Spanish photography, revealing unsuspected links among the different artists work. The documentary constitution of the exhibition shows the considerable transformation of the Spanish society from the 1950's to our days, at the same time as the development of the trayectory of each artist's work. After the Spanish Civil War, pioneers such as Cualladó, Masats, Pérez Siquier or Joan Colom, portrayed Spain in black and white, as country immersed in backwardness and despair. These pioneers were followed by a new wave of creators emerging with a different distinct, such as Cristina García Rodero, Toni Catany, Humberto Rivas or Pablo Pérez-Minguez. Pérez-Minguez became a cultural catalyst with his magazine Nueva Lente and represented the connection with a new generation of pop culture aesthetics such as García-Alix and Ouka Leele, with particular working procedures, and Joan Fontcuberta, Chema Madoz, Manuel Vilariño or Bleda y Rosa, focused on a more conceptual photography.

2 The itinerary of the exhibition started at the Artendencias International Festival of Visual Arts in 2009, in Madrid, and continued travelling around the National Palace of Ajuda (Lisbon 2009), the Spanish Embassy in Tokio (2009) and the Aperture Foundation in Nueva York, displayed up to January 11 th After its international itineracy it continued travelling around

3 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards The photographers award winners gathered in this collective exhibition are: Gabriel Cualladó National Photography Award 1994 Valencia, 1925 Madrid He introduced himself in photography as a self-taught artist, at the end of the 1950's, showing through his work the real soul of someone who decides to use photography as a means of integrity and commitment. His work focuses on human figure, most of the times isolated in the scene, where this loneliness becomes the origin of the artist's dreams. Major awards: 1959 Popular Photography magazine Prize (USA) Portrait Saloon Prize by the National Library in France. Gold Medal by the Fodor Museum in Amsterdam (Holland). Alfons Roig Award, by the Council of Valencia (Spain). Europe Photography Prize. Photography Award by the Community of Madrid (Spain) 1995 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture. Cristina García Rodero National Photography Award 1996 Ciudad Real, She has been the only Spanish member in the Magnum Agency. Her work is framed in photo report, with a strong personal point of view. Major awards: 1989 Award for Best Photography Book, for Hidden Spain at the Arles Festival of Photography (Rencontres Internationales de la PhotoGraphie) in France Award Eugène Smith Humanistic Photography, in New York Award Dr. Enrich Salomon by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) in Cologne, Germany Award Kodak Fotobuchpreis, Stuttgart, Germany.

4 1993 World Press Photo Award in the category of Arts - trophy Golden Eye-, Amsterdam National Photography Award, by the Ministry of Culture, 1996 Iberoamerican Olorum Photography Award, La Habana, Cuba World Press Photo Award in the category of Dailylife, Graphic Reports in Amsterdam, Holland Bartolomé Ros Award for Best Spanish career in photography, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, 2001 Godó Photojournalist Prize, by the Fundación Conde of Barcelona Gold Medal for the Merit to Visual Arts, Spanish Government Culture Community of Madrid Award, 2007 Graphic Journalistic Award, by the European Graphic Journalists Association. Humberto Rivas National Photography Award 1997 He was born in Buenos Aires in 1937, and moved to Barcelona in His photography focuses on portraits, landscapes and the passing of time. His photographs portrait people looking straight to the lens of the camera, baring their souls with no further ambitions, aware of no fakeness possibilities. Major awards: 1997 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture, 2009 Gold Medal for Cultural Merits by the Council of Barcelona, Joan Fontcuberta National Photography Award 1998 Barcelona, He is an artist, lecturer, essay-writer, critic and promoter of spezialised art. His use of informatic tools became one of his working means interact with the audience and trace his critical point of view of reality. In 1980 he was cofunder of the magazine Photovisión. Between 1985 and 2001, the work of Fontcuberta was displayed in more that thirty museums and showrooms all over Europe, North America and Japan.

5 Major Awards: 1988 David Octavius Hill Medall, awarded by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie GDL, Germany Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, France National Photography Award by the Ministry of Culture, 1996 Olorum Ibero American Photography Award, La Habana, Cuba World Press Photo in the Category of Dailylife, Graphic Reports in Amsterdam, Holland Bartolomé Ros Award for the Best Spanish photographer career in PhotoEspaña Godó Photojournalist Prize, by the Fundación Conde of Barcelona Gold Medal for the Merits in Visual Arts, Spanish Government Prize for Culture by the Community of Madrid, 2007 Graphic Journalist Prize, awarded by the Graphic European Journalist Association Alberto García Alix National Photography Award 1999 León, He is one of the most outstanding photographers of the national artistic scene. His photographs become a testimony registring one of the most thrilling periods of the recent Spanish history, by depicting the social and cultural changes during the 1980's, with an autobiographical approach. His work is internationally well-recognized and it has been published in different media and magazines such as: Vogue, Vanity Fair or the British Journal of Photography among others. Major Awards: 1999 National Photography Award, by the Ministry of Culture, 2003 Bartolomé Ros Award, PhotoEspaña, 2004 Photography Award, by the Community of Madrid,

6 Chema Madoz National Photography Award 2000 Madrid, His exhibition career started in The Royal Photographic Society of Madrid (Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid) in 1985, and later on at the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, or Reina Sofía Museum (MNCARS), among others. His work contein the connection between different language resources through analogies, metaphores and paradox puzzles or visual metonymy, arousing an active interaction between the audience and the photographs. Major Awards: 1991 Kodak Award Spain 2000 National Photography Award, by the Ministry of Culture, Spain 2000 PhotoEspaña Award. Higasikawa Award, Overseas Photographer at the Higasikawa PhotoFestival (Japan) Outstanding Author in the Houston Fotofest Biennial. Toni Catany National Photography Award 2001 Mallorca, 1942 Barcelona As self-taught artist he was always interested in nineteenth century photography techniques, experimenting through a variety of them, from the calotype to the most recent ones like the Polaroid Transport, which oflently uses to shoot nudes, landscapes, portraits or still lifes. During the past ten years, the work of Catany has been gathered in multiple publications. Major Awards: 1990 Best Book Award in the Primavera Fotográfica in Cataluña, Spain, in recognition of Natures Mortes Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the Ministry of Culture of France European Publishers Award For Photography, awarded by the five most outstanding european photography publishers: Braus (Germany), Dewi Lewis (England), Hazan (France), Peliti Associati (Italy) and Lunwerg Editores (Spain) National Photography Award, Spain 2003 Ramón Llul Award by the Government of the Balearic Islands, National Visual Arts Award in Cataluña,

7 Joan Colom National Photography Award 2002 Barcelona, He is self-taught photographer. In 1957 he joins the Agrupación Fotográfica de Cataluña (AFAC). He took part in the 1950's generation of Spanish photographers who achieved to develop new ways of expresion in photography language and assimilated it into the avant-garde movements of its days. His photography focuses on depiction of urban life. Major Awards: 2002 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture, 2003 Gold Medal for Cultural Merits, Council of Barcelona, 2005 National Visual Arts Award, Generalitat de Cataluña, 2005 Ciudad de Barcelona Prize for Visual Arts, 2006 Cross of St. Jorge, Generalitat de Cataluña, Carlos Pérez Siquier National Photography Award 2003 Almería, He is one of the noteworthy Spanish photographic avant-garde pioneers, who accomplished to gather in the AFAL magazine an entire generation of fagnificient photographers, and participated in spreading the Spanish photography acknowledgment abroad. During the 1970's he worked in the edition of EVERFOTO, one of the most exhaustive selection of Spanish photographers ever done, which launched and promoted the Spanish photography and its acknowledgment abroad. He represented Spain in the International Meetings of Arles, in France, and at the end of the 1980's he was selected for the Kodak Library of Creative Photography by Kodak-Salvat. Major Awards: 2003 National Photography Award, by the Ministry of Culture, 2003 Gold Medal of Andalucía, Government of Andalucía, 2005 Award Pablo Ruiz Picasso for Visual Arts, Junta de Andalucía,

8 Ramón Masats National Photography Award 2004 Barcelona, He took part in the revolutionary photographic generation of the Group AFAL. His first works instigated changes within the Spanish photographic scene, at that time focused in aesthetic and post-war documentary photography. He is recognized as one of the most influential and admired photographers of his generation by bringing fresh documentary photo-report trends during the 1970's. His particular perception of daily life essence, people and places, held in high regard his creation and photography, both black-and-white and colour photography. Major Awards 1956 Luis Navarro Award for Photography, by the La Vanguardia newspaper, Cataluña, 1963 Negtor Photography Award 1964 Special Award in the Film Festival contest of Taormina, Italy, rewarding his documentary Prado Vivo Silver Miqueldi Prize in the Festival of Cinematography contest in Bilbao, Spain, rewarding his work The one who teaches Photography Award, by the Community of Madrid, 2004 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture, Ouka Leele National Photography Award 2005 Madrid, From the outset, Ouka Leele has adopted a resolutely stance pushing for the artistic value of photography, as a phenomenon inherent to life where ideas, feelings and images can be devised, and store them in her real and infinite archive. Through all her works, portraits, landscapes and still lifes, her unmistakable style is been reproduced depicting a dreamed world with surrealistic, ironical and mildness touches. She has been constantly seeking for beauty through exquisite colours and compositions, where nothing is left to chance. Major Awards: 1983 ICARO Prize for Visual Arts, by the newspaper Diario 16, 1987 she takes part in Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil Award of Culture, by the Community of Madrid, 2005 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture,

9 Pablo Pérez-Mínguez National Photography Award 2006 Madrid, 1946 Madrid He is one of the founders of the magazine Nueva Lente which its experimental essence made it stand out from the rest of the photography publications. It enhances a debate revolving photography breaking its formal rules. Besides his pictures of the movida madrileña, Pérez Mínguez has portrayed from a particular point of view a wide range of people, through iconography and his visual resources. Major Awards: 2006 National Photography Award, by the Ministry of Culture, Manuel Vilariño National Photography Award 2007 La Coruña, Photographer, poet and painter. He started his career during the 1980's, linking nature and culture. The coexistence between black-and-white and colour photography, as well as between religious and profane matters, are a constant feature in his photography, depicting the borders between life and death, or loneliness and the passingtime of life. His works are fullfilled with a tecnical composition quality and an intense poetic or philosophical sense. Major Awards: 2007 National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture, Spain 2007 Representant of Spain in the Venice Biennial, Italy Bleda y Rosa National Photography Award 2008 María Bleda was born in Castellón, in 1969, and José María Rosa in Albacete in Bleda y Rosa work together in Valencia and in London. Their work have some resemblences with Bernd and Hill Becher procedures. The photographs show spaces or scenarios with a human component and temporal dimension. Since 1992 they have been working on touring exhibitions around Spain, and foreign countries like Scottland, Portugal, United States and China. Their work takes part in a variety of collections of museums and institutions. Major Awards: National Photography Award, Ministry of Culture, Spain

10 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards After two decades of their deep careers, it is brought out the development and ripeness reached by the National Photography Award winners. As a consecuence of these National Photography Awards, photography became recognized as an artistic expression of first order, giving equal attention as to the other visual arts. The Gaze in the Other is an extensive colective exhibition bringing together for the first time all the photographers whom have been awarded the Spanish National Photography Prize. The exhibition displays a wide range of unpublished series -with a diferent line of work to the traditional ones followed by the authors- and a variety of topics from the different artists, meeting in unexpected connections: absence, bodies, stairs, backs, childhood, crowds, landscapes, couples, people, stones and flowers, religion and esotericism, portraits of celebrities, chairs. The exhibition has been formulated with a double interpretation, providing the spectator an enriching, interesting and joyfull analysis. This exhibition demonstrates the expressiveness, the potential, the originality, the excellence and quality of our photographers, going through the last seventy years of the Spanish photography history, at the same time as it puts forward brilliant connections between them. The Gaze in the Other is an exhibition which tends to gather in a single space all our master gazes, from those photographers who have been carefully observing the mutation of the scene throughout their times.

11 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards Images Joan Colom The Street,

12 Ramón Masats Mijas (2001)

13 Pablo Pérez Mínguez Torero-Lamb. 1972

14 Carlos Pérez Siquier The South's colour.1973

15 Toni Catany Untitled,. 1987

16 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards Catalogue Cataogue Edition SECRETARÍA GENERAL TÉCNICA Subdirección General de Publicaciones, Información y Documentación. Ministerio de Cultura NIPO: ISBN: DL: M Direction: Javier Díez Carmen de la Guerra Coordination: Ministerio de Cultura Resurrección Moreno Artendencias África Gómez Núñez Ángela Alcocer Monteagudo Mª Araceli Martínez Galán Raque Crespo Neuman Agustín Pino Vacas Graphic Design: Ángel Rodríguez Sánchez Reproductions: Juan Manuel Castro Prieto Laboratorio Copia Barcelona Lucam Reproducciones Sabaté S.L. Serapio Carreño Laboratorio Digital Banco de Imágenes de VEGAP Printing: Pentacrom S.L.

17 The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards More information The glaze in the other. Premios National Photography Awards Contact PROMOCIÓN DEL ARTE Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte promocionarte@mecd.es #PromociondelArte

18 CONDITIONS REPORT FOR TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITION TITLE The Gaze in the Other. The Spanish National Photography Awards EXHIBITION PRODUCTION Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Secretaría de Estado de Cultura. Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Bienes Culturales y de Archivos y Bibliotecas. Subdirección General de Promoción de las Bellas Artes TECHNICAL DATA OF THE EXHIBITION Total number of works: 71 framed photographs in different sizes. INSTALLATION: Showroom space: 250 linear metres. Required preventive conservation and suitable lighting levels for photography - including a time-limiting light control-. Graphic of the exhibition. Exhibition information handouts, invitations, promotion, etc. SHIPMENT OF THE EXHIBITION: Packing system: 12 wooden crates with different sizes; volume and weigth: 1500 kg / 9m3. Only companies specialized in art shipment, qualified in preserving and installing artworks, are selected. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION EXPENSES COVERED BY THE MINISTERIO DE EDUCACIÓN, CULTURA Y DEPORTE. Production. Coordination. Insurance. Packing.

19 EXPENSES COVERED BY THE INSTITUTION HOLDING THE EXHIBITION: Curatorial management: Fees intended for the curators: 1000 euros (ATI). Travel, accommodation and daily allowance during the installation working period and the official opening. Installation and Transportation services: Round-trip shipping. Installation and lighting of the showrooms. Graphic productions: wall texts -at beginning of the exhibition and for each series,- photographers names; object labels. Surveillance and security officers service. Unpack, installation, dismantling and repack. SEVERAL CONDITIONS WHEN HANDLING AND PACKING THE ARTWORKS: Qualified staff and protecting tools should be provided during the unpacking, install and repacking; follow the precise Packing List order details when repacking; use of impact and vibration vibro-isolatuing system in the crates; security surveillance of works shall be ensured from the time of delivery, set up, dismantling, and return. CATALOGUE: The catalogue was edited by the Secretaría General Técnica, Subdirección General de Publicaciones, Información y Documentación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (Chief Administrative Office, Department for the Documentation and Publicaction of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport). In order to get a copy of the Catalogue please contact: Tomy Lorenzo C/ Abdón Terradas, nº Madrid Fax: tomy.lorenzo@mecd.es NOTE: Once an exhibition application has been accepted, a subsequent collaboration Agreement will be signed between the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte and the institution where the exhibition will be held.