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Space Molinos del Rio Stables is filled with black and white portraits by Juan Ballester (17/03/2011)

The shows 'human Panorama', which can be visited until June 16, brings more than 50 photographs

The Department of Culture back to work with a gallery of Murcia.

On this occasion, Space Río_Caballerizas Mills organized an exhibition of Juan Ballester hand in hand with the art gallery Chys of Murcia.

The exhibition, which will be open until 16 June, brings together more than fifty photographs from the author.

A selection of nearly forty years of the life of this photographer who has dived on file, more than 30,000 negatives, to show fifty black and white photographs are a wonderful opportunity to remind people "who have gone through his life. "

The shows 'Panorama People' meets, including photographs, portraits of painters, writers, poets, singers or bullfighters thus offering a superb analysis of the protagonist's psychological portrait

An exhibition presented by the current place of photography and that makes us think, as the author in the catalog, on the position of the photographer himself outside his work.

Thus, Ballester said that "the picture only makes sense and deserves to be when done as portrait. And, of course, deserves to be photographed only human presence, their mark, because, in obedience to the fundamental interest of the photograph, only the signal external, unique and unrepeatable human, must be perpetuated. "

The collaborative project with art galleries in the city of Murcia was born three years ago.

During this time, the cooperation project has allowed to publicize the work of nine art galleries, the T20 and Angie Aurora Mecca through four exhibitions.

Chys Gallery is the oldest of which are open now in Murcia, as it became operational in 1972.

Ballester (Murcia, 1952) began to take pictures of a self-taught in 1973.

In 1976 he took part in what was his first exhibition.

In May 1979 solo exhibition at the gallery Chys work on portraits of painters Murcia.

Image is part of the Group and its members performed alongside several exhibitions during the years 1979 and 1980.

In 1987 he finished a monograph on the world of bullfighters set out in the gallery Chys of Murcia.

In 1989 he presented a paper about the figure of the painter Ramon Gaya as outlined in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona.

Subsequently extended this exhibition is on display at the Cervantes Institute in Paris, Rome and Lisbon, as well as the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid.

In 1993 performs a flamenco singers work presented in the headquarters of the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Union and Teatro Romea de Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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