Sunday, 31 January 2010

THE XAVIER MISERACHS PHOTOGRAPHIC BIENNIAL AND “ON THE THRESHOLD OF CHANGE”.



The next Friday, September 26, at 19,30h in El Museu del Suro in Palafrugell, Girona, begins the V Biennial Xavier Miserachs that will be open till the 19 of October, an homage to the great photographer that spent his last years in this Costa Brava village. I have the great pleasure to participate in this Biennial with my exhibition “On the Threshold of Change” and with a little speech about Xavier Miserachs.
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ON THE THRESHOLD OF CHANGE” (Life in Spain during Transition)
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This exhibition is a photographic document about the life in Spain during the seventies and the beginning of the eighties. All started when in the year 2000, reviewing old photographs, I found one of the very fist pictures I took, in Bellvitge, still a teenager, using my father’s Contaflex. I realized that time had given this image an important added value that, perhaps, was not there in the moment I took the photo.
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BELLVITGE. L'HOSPITALET DE LLOBREGAT 1970

That was the starting point, together with the students fight in Franco’s last years that I photographed when I started to study Economics at Barcelona University, to go through all my stock. I ended up with a documentary photo collection that journalist Xavier Vinader named “On the Threshold of Change”.
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BARCELONA. FACULTAD DE ECONOMICAS 1971
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Carolina Martinez, who had worked in Magnum offices in Paris,comisariated an exhibition showed in Salamanca, San Sebastián and Istanbul accompanied by a Clemente Bernad text. Now it will be exhibited, by the first time, in Catalonia, thanks to the Xavier Miserachs Photographic Biennial and Silvia Omedes, Photo Social Vision president.
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BARCELONA. FUNERAL POR UN GUARDIA CIVIL 1976
SEVILLA. EL PALMAR DE TROYA 1977

EXTREMADURA. SINDROME DEL ACEITE DE COLZA. 1981

MADRID. ELECCIONES GENERALES 1982.

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