Miami, Feb 3 (EFE).- Four Spanish National Photography Prize Winners, Alberto García-Alix, Chema Madoz, Ouka Lele and José Manuel Ballester, exhibit at the “Miradas de Asturias” exhibition, which opens on May 8 in Miami (Florida), his artistic works “from the most absolute freedom” around the essence of this Principality located in the northwest of the country.
The exhibition, organized by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation and the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami (CCEMiami), reflects in more than twenty photographs the “unique and personal vision” of this group of renowned photographers on Asturias and its people, he indicated. the CCEMiami in a statement.
The exhibition will take place outside Barry University, whose Department of English and the Study of Languages and Cultures has collaborated on this initiative.
“Miradas de Asturias” is a long-term patronage project of the aforementioned foundation that consists of commissioning Spanish photographers, all of them National Photography Award Winners, to carry out an artistic work around this autonomous community and region of northern Spain. .
Alberto García-Alix (León, 1956), photographer, audiovisual creator, writer and editor, winner of the Enaire Foundation Photography Career Award 2022, confirms in “Patria querida”, that it was exhibited in the first edition of “Miradas de Asturias”, in 2013, his ability to fix a “poetic and intense look” on nature in its masses of grays and blacks and “the weight of an entire people in the faces of the characters.”
From the painter and photographer José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960), who from 1990 focused on architectural photography, some of the more than 5,000 snapshots that he took in Asturias between 2010 and 2013 are collected, «collecting all its corners ».
The Ballester pieces selected for this project “discover inhospitable, active, isolated or unfinished spaces that treasure intimate poetics” and show a region where “the force of nature prevails even in industrial spaces.”
The work “Where the light takes me”, by Ouka Lele (1957-2022), the most outstanding photographer of La Movida in Madrid, also a painter, poet and audiovisual director, captures “a world full of spells and questions, dominated by fantasy and imagination.
The fourth artist, Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958), investigates in “The immobile traveler”, from the manipulation of images and everyday objects, the “new aspects of their symbolic capacities”.
It is the “idea of Asturias” itself that becomes the object to observe in “The Immobile Traveler,” the statement says.