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Space río_Caballerizas Mills hosts the exhibition "Spain, festivals and rituals" with 119 photographs by Cristina García Rodero, newly elected full member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency photojournalist.
The exhibition "Spain, festivals and rituals" shows the beauty of the towns and people of our country in traditional festive events.
It is an anthropological and staff organized some traditions from the seasons.
The exhibition includes images of the Fallas, Carnival, Easter, pilgrimages and fairs, "Mayo" and "May Cruces, bulls, Corpus, San Juan, Christmas, Epiphany, Moros y Cristianos ... This is the first time Cristina García Rodero performs a solo show after being named a full member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency.
Cristina Garcia Rodero (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1949) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1968-1972) where he taught photography until 2007.
He has combined his teaching with photographic creation became one of the best known Spanish photographers in the national and international.
Since 1973 and for twenty years has been to investigate and photograph the traditional festivals of the people of Spain.
Since 1990 has expanded its scope to the Mediterranean, America, Asia and Africa.
As indicated in the book "Spain.
Festivals and rituals "published in 1993, the anthropologist William A.
Christian Jr "Since 1973, Cristina García Rodero has devoted all his spare time and all its resources, in a stubborn, almost obsessive attempt to capture the pathos, complexity, vigor and beauty of the people and the people of Spain in exceptional times and passengers of the parties, to make this work well requires a lot of love, patience and generosity.
His personal vision to find those moments where the public mask and private face intersect and extraordinary and bland overlap, avoiding the holidays too stereotypical or formal.
Cristina waits patiently for the unexpected, improvised, feels open and direct sympathy for the rural people who still know how to laugh, mourn, pray, wonder and rejoice in the street.
The result is a document of the human condition, caught at point of particular intensity of the annual cycle.
Your file photo, well sorted, is an invaluable resource for the history, culture and art of the peoples of Spain.
Its value in this regard has already been recognized, particularly by The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica (California), where there are 6,000 photographs scheduled for public consultation.
People find themselves in this file photo a treasure for future generations.
In these photographs will be two kinds of art.
One is the art tenacious, humane, and lively sense of humor of Garcia Rodero when composing and select these images.
The other is the art, anonymous and ephemeral, which she pays tribute: the women and men, boys and girls who decorate their streets with paper flowers and branches arranged in the Corpus street altars with pictures, vases and throws; prepare bread and artistic threads for offerings, embroidered banners for the processions and mantles for pictures, sewing traditional costumes dancing, inventing fantastic masks and costumes for carnival masks or carefully reconstructed old, adorn their horses with paper flowers, ribbons and banners and work in secret for weeks or even months to surprise the public with glowing crosses in May or sculptures for the fires.
When you look at these pictures, imagine there at the party, with all senses alert.
These images contain the smell of roses and smoke, the firing of shotguns, the patatún of drums, the music a little tune from local band, the purr of the rosary, praise in verse from the balcony of city hall, songs, burlesque couplets, the night alive, the frightened horse neighing, where men with their parties know better than anyone raising a time out of time and share it with others. "
Cristina García was awarded by Spain hides the prize for Best Book of the Year (Arles, 1989) Eugene Smith Award for World Press Photo, in the category of Arts (Trophy Golden Eye, Amsterdam, 1993).
National Photography Award Ministry of Culture of Spain (Madrid, 1996), Award of Photojournalism Conde de Godo (Barcelona, 2000) Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture (Madrid, 2005), Culture Prize the Community of Madrid for his career (Madrid, 2006), Alfonso Sanchez Journalism Award Chart Graphics Journalists Association of Europe (Madrid, 2007).
He worked in the Vu Agency since 1990 to 2005.
His publications include "Hidden Spain" (1989), "Spain, Holidays and Rites" (1993) and "Europe: the South" (2000), "Grabarka.
O Monte das 6,000 crosses.
Unha Orthodox pilgrimage in Poland "and" Cristina Garcia Rodero.
PhotoBolsillo (2001), "Rituals in Haiti" (2001) and "A Santiago pilgrimage in Haiti" (2004) and "Mary canvas, Goddess of Water Eyes" (2008).
Some pictures of the sample are part of the permanent exhibits of museums, art centers and foundations such as the Museo del Prado, Reina Sofia Museum, Museum of Art would go Tehe Marugame Moder Spanish Contemporary (Japan), Museum of Art Center for Creative Photography ( Tucson, USA), Museum of Fine Art (Houston, USA), Seattle Art Museum (Washington, USA) IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centre Julio Gonzalez in Valencia, Meadows Museum (Dallas, USA), Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas ) ...
The exhibition, which first occupy all the halls of Space río_ Mills Stables, has been organized in collaboration with Magnum Photos France.
A press conference attended Hascoet Emmamuelle representing the agency, the artist and the Executive Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Murcia, Dona Fátima Barnuevo.
The sample is added to the forty-second edition of the International Folklore Festival of the Mediterranean.
Will be open from 10 September to 9 November.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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