60 miradas a Ferrovial. José Manuel Ballester

The exhibition is a survey along the Ferrovial's work, a company that has built different infrastructures in all the world and now, in order to celebrate its 60th anniversary, they have invited the well-known photographer for making a serie of photographies of the most relevant projects.

José Manuel Ballester. Autopista del Sol. Málaga, Spain. Authorization and construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

Motorways in Dallas, Chicago or Chile; airports in Madrid, London or Gdnask, and recycling plants, ports, nuclear reactors and cultural spaces are some of many projects which the company Ferrovial has developed in its 60 years of history and which now José Manuel Ballester takes photographies for the exposition leaded by Rafael Doctor.

José Manuel Ballester shows the result of one year work of the well-known photographer, who travelled 30,000 kilometers to document company projects in 40 locations in Spain, Europe and America. Great images that invade different areas of CaixaForum Madrid show the complexity of the projects, as well as the versatility and extend of the group's work, which covers the entire life cycle of infraestructure, from planning and construction to maintenance.

In the Ballester's photographies always exist a big balance between the portrait of technical work and the own photographer miracle. The elements are showed within a metaphisic view, because it emerges the rational and explores the tension between the specific and the abstract hidden in any form of landscape.

Date.- 12th June, 2013 - 30th July, 2013.
Venue.- CaixaForum Madrid. Paseo del Prado, 36. Madrid. Spain.

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José Manuel Ballester. Arco de los Tilos bridge. Isla de la Palma, Canarias, Spain. Construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. Terminal 4 del Aeropuerto de Barajas. Madrid, España. Construcción. Imagen cortesía de CaixaForum Madrid. Fotografía © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. Crossrail. London, United Kingdom. Construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. LBJ Express motorway. Texas, USA. Authorization and construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. Birmingham City. United Kingdom. Manteninace and getion of the highways. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. Ergo Arena Sports Center. Sopot, Poland. Construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Spain. Construction and maintenance. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

José Manuel Ballester. North Tarrant Express Motorway. Texas, USA. Authorization and construction. Image courtesy of CaixaForum Madrid. Photography © José Manuel Ballester.

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JOSÉ MANUEL BALLESTER

José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) is a painter and a photographer. Degree in Fine Arts, 1984. Since then he has won various awards and scholarships. He has participated in a lot of exhibitions all over the world, including the international ARCO fair for the last ten years. His work forms part of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and it has been exhibited in Beijing, Canada, New York, London, Sao Paulo, France, Germany, Tokyo and Colombia. First Prize in Painting in the XVIII Biennial of Alexandria and the National Print Award, 1998.Premio Nacional de Fotografía 2010.

His artistic career began with a particular attention on the technique of the Italian and Flemish painting of the XV and XVIII centuries. Since 1990, he started to blend painting and photography. We can highlight, between his numerous exhibitions, Lugares de paso, Valencia, 2003; Setting Out, New York, 2003; or Habitación 523, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005; and recently Fervor de metrópolis, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011; La abstracción de la realidad, Sala Alcalá 31, Community of Madrid and DA2, Salamanca, 2011; and Espacios ocultos in the Spanish Academy, Rome, 2012. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in art fairs as ARCO, Art Chicago, Artforum Germany, Paris Photo and Art Miami and in cities such as Dallas, Paris, Miami, São Paulo, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and many others. And some more current ones like: Gli Spazi Nascosti di José Manuel Ballester Nei Palazzi di Genova, Museo di Palazzo Reale e Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa, Italy (2017), Paisajes encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco, Goya, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2016), Museos en blanco, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain (2015).

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