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Flamenco & Photography Celebrated at Aperture Gallery in New York |
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| Written by Mason Belinkoff |
| Monday, 08 February 2010 01:29 |
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This exhibition is coproduced by Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, with the collaboration of Centro Andaluz de Flamenco, and is made possible thanks to the generous support of Antonio Banderas Fragrances by PUIG. The exhibition debuted at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla in April 2009 and is curated by José Lebrero Stals. “We are thrilled to join forces with Instituto Cervantes, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales to make possible these exhibitions about the art of flamenco as seen through the lens of the camera,” said Juan García de Oteyza, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation. “Aperture has long celebrated the intersection of photography and other art forms, including publishing the critically acclaimed photographic biography of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.”
 Whether as social phenomenon or musical expression, flamenco has been
of enduring interest and inspiration to photographers from the mid-nineteenth
century to the present. While some photographers from outside of Spain went in
search of it or encountered it by chance, to others flamenco and its
practitioners are an essential, if not innate, aspect of their cultural heritage
and their photographic work. This artistic form—also considered a way of life or
being—has generated fascination in cultured urban circles, remaining one of the
most secret, mysterious, and seductive manifestations of twentieth-century
European popular art. This exhibition of more than one hundred and fifty years of images, frequently taken by foreigners rather than Spaniards, is an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that is developed around it. Divided into two parts, this exhibition features such artists as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesc Catalá Roca, Inge Morath, Martin Parr, Michael Quinn, Man Ray, and Miguel Rio Branco. Instituto Cervantes New York is a non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. Its mission is to promote the teaching of Spanish and the co-official languages of Spain, and to contribute to the advancement of the culture of the Spanish speaking countries. Aperture—located in New York’s Chelsea art district—is a world-renowned non-profit publisher and exhibition space dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms. Aperture was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer/curator Nancy Newhall, among others. Visit : http://www.aperture.org/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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