The Castilla-La Mancha Community is completely included in the PHotoEspaña program for the first time, and it does it so with the project Visions of La Mancha, which brings together five exhibitions of great national and international photographers.
Visions of La Mancha is a project created "on purpose" to commemorate the fourth centenary of the Miguel de Cervantes death. Here, the photographers Caio Reisewitz, Montserrat Soto, Jordí Bernadó, Ferdinando Scciana and John Davies cross Castilla La Mancha to shot different aspects of the Community: the landscape, the city and its people, cultural heritage, traces of Don Quixote or science and technology.
Visions of La Mancha seeks to by an update for the Castilla-La Mancha's image, deepens into its history, its past, its present and its future. Images that stay as witnesses to the changes that have occurred, and what remains over time.
Caio Reisewitz. Wits of today. Albacete Museum.
The photographs of Caio Reisewitz (Sao Paulo, 1963), one of the most internationally renowned contemporary photographers Brazilians realize the industrial power of a community apparently anchored in its agricultural past.
Caio Reisewitz has traveled through different cities of the Community and photographed its technology companies, astronomical centers, hydrogen centers, photovoltaic institutes, power plants and wine farms with origin designation. His images of Airbus of Illescas in Toledo, the Astronomical Center of Yebes in Guadalajara, the Hydrogen National Center or GICC Thermal Power Plant of Puertollano in Ciudad Real, where they develop technology aimed at achieving a sustainable model of power generation, using solid fuels cleanly low economic value, show a community in the development of its potential.
Montserrat Soto. Primitive data 5. Gallery. Museum of Ciudad Real
Primitive data 5. Pinacoteca is a photographic series of the artist Montserrat Soto, made in 2015, portraying Golden Age works, mostly by artists from La Mancha or artist who have had a relation with it, in which appears a direct link to the book and its representation. The project includes some images of paintings created after the invention of printing and containing the iconography of the book. As an art gallery, the artist relates them about how these icons are represented and how they are presented in the paintings. Her idea is to reveal the intentions with which the book - as image with complex structures - is used to generate new ideas associations. In Primitive data 5, the information featuring the image of a book opened to its own meaning in the structure of the art work and in the interrelation with other ones.
Jordi Bernadó. Traces of Don Quixote. Cuenca Museum
Jordi Bernadó (Lleida, 1966), winner of the Laus Awards, 1999, for his book Good Newsy PHotoEspaña for Best Photography Book of the Year and Best Art Book Award by the Ministry of Culture, 2002, for his book Very Very Bad News, he has traveled different parts of the Community seeking the footsteps of Don Quixote. With a great observation capacity and the twist of humor and irony that characterizes his work, Bernadó has traveled cities like Almodovar del Campo, Madridejos, Puerto Lápice, El Toboso, Villarta de San Juan, Daimiel or Campo de Criptana and he has found statues of Don Quixote riding his horse and wearing his sword in the middle of nowhere, crowning a farm’s gate or announcing the arrival in a city; the name of Dulcinea used in antique shops or pubs, Quixote motifs decorating the curtains on the houses doors or the typical mills of La Mancha’s landscape.
Ferdinando Scianna. The city and its people. Museum of Guadalajara
In the winter of 2015, Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, Italy, 1943)- one of the great Italian reporters belonging to Magnum Agency- traveled through various Community’s cities shoting people. Photographs taken in cities that he visited - Albacete, Almagro, Guadalajara, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Toledo, among others - aware both the architectural wealth of the Community and the strong presence of religious elements. These highlight the magnificence of Infantado Palace’s facade, the indoor space in the Cuenca’s Cathedral, or the Toledo’s Cathedral. Scianna also portrays different generations of its inhabitants.
John Davies. Landscapes of La Mancha. John Davies. Santa Cruz Museum of Toledo.
John Davies (Durham, UK, 1949)- one of the most renowned English landscape photographers and contemporary documentary- has come to some natural parks of the Community and he has shot landscapes in black and white and color. Davies has traveled the Río Dulce Natural Reserve, the Calares del Río Mundo y de la Sima Natural Park, the Hoz gorge and the Alto Tajo Natural Park realizing the rich landscape of the Community. His images taken during the fall 2014 show us a landscape sometimes with a lush vegetation and other with a poor one, with stony places and high cliffs, with rocky mounds that show the stratifications produced by wind erosion, with deep chasms and skies shrouded in clouds. Accurate and carefulness images bathed in a soft light, images with great emotional and symbolic drama that refer to painting William Turner.
For years, Davies has photographed not only the English countryside and the England’s industrial transformation, especially in the vicinity of Liverpool, but also France, Italy, Spain. Places where nature and industry, past and future coexist, making visible the evolution through certain informative elements.
Visions of La Mancha is a project created "on purpose" to commemorate the fourth centenary of the Miguel de Cervantes death. Here, the photographers Caio Reisewitz, Montserrat Soto, Jordí Bernadó, Ferdinando Scciana and John Davies cross Castilla La Mancha to shot different aspects of the Community: the landscape, the city and its people, cultural heritage, traces of Don Quixote or science and technology.
Visions of La Mancha seeks to by an update for the Castilla-La Mancha's image, deepens into its history, its past, its present and its future. Images that stay as witnesses to the changes that have occurred, and what remains over time.
Caio Reisewitz. Wits of today. Albacete Museum.
The photographs of Caio Reisewitz (Sao Paulo, 1963), one of the most internationally renowned contemporary photographers Brazilians realize the industrial power of a community apparently anchored in its agricultural past.
Caio Reisewitz has traveled through different cities of the Community and photographed its technology companies, astronomical centers, hydrogen centers, photovoltaic institutes, power plants and wine farms with origin designation. His images of Airbus of Illescas in Toledo, the Astronomical Center of Yebes in Guadalajara, the Hydrogen National Center or GICC Thermal Power Plant of Puertollano in Ciudad Real, where they develop technology aimed at achieving a sustainable model of power generation, using solid fuels cleanly low economic value, show a community in the development of its potential.
Montserrat Soto. Primitive data 5. Gallery. Museum of Ciudad Real
Primitive data 5. Pinacoteca is a photographic series of the artist Montserrat Soto, made in 2015, portraying Golden Age works, mostly by artists from La Mancha or artist who have had a relation with it, in which appears a direct link to the book and its representation. The project includes some images of paintings created after the invention of printing and containing the iconography of the book. As an art gallery, the artist relates them about how these icons are represented and how they are presented in the paintings. Her idea is to reveal the intentions with which the book - as image with complex structures - is used to generate new ideas associations. In Primitive data 5, the information featuring the image of a book opened to its own meaning in the structure of the art work and in the interrelation with other ones.
Jordi Bernadó. Traces of Don Quixote. Cuenca Museum
Jordi Bernadó (Lleida, 1966), winner of the Laus Awards, 1999, for his book Good Newsy PHotoEspaña for Best Photography Book of the Year and Best Art Book Award by the Ministry of Culture, 2002, for his book Very Very Bad News, he has traveled different parts of the Community seeking the footsteps of Don Quixote. With a great observation capacity and the twist of humor and irony that characterizes his work, Bernadó has traveled cities like Almodovar del Campo, Madridejos, Puerto Lápice, El Toboso, Villarta de San Juan, Daimiel or Campo de Criptana and he has found statues of Don Quixote riding his horse and wearing his sword in the middle of nowhere, crowning a farm’s gate or announcing the arrival in a city; the name of Dulcinea used in antique shops or pubs, Quixote motifs decorating the curtains on the houses doors or the typical mills of La Mancha’s landscape.
Ferdinando Scianna. The city and its people. Museum of Guadalajara
In the winter of 2015, Ferdinando Scianna (Bagheria, Italy, 1943)- one of the great Italian reporters belonging to Magnum Agency- traveled through various Community’s cities shoting people. Photographs taken in cities that he visited - Albacete, Almagro, Guadalajara, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Toledo, among others - aware both the architectural wealth of the Community and the strong presence of religious elements. These highlight the magnificence of Infantado Palace’s facade, the indoor space in the Cuenca’s Cathedral, or the Toledo’s Cathedral. Scianna also portrays different generations of its inhabitants.
John Davies. Landscapes of La Mancha. John Davies. Santa Cruz Museum of Toledo.
John Davies (Durham, UK, 1949)- one of the most renowned English landscape photographers and contemporary documentary- has come to some natural parks of the Community and he has shot landscapes in black and white and color. Davies has traveled the Río Dulce Natural Reserve, the Calares del Río Mundo y de la Sima Natural Park, the Hoz gorge and the Alto Tajo Natural Park realizing the rich landscape of the Community. His images taken during the fall 2014 show us a landscape sometimes with a lush vegetation and other with a poor one, with stony places and high cliffs, with rocky mounds that show the stratifications produced by wind erosion, with deep chasms and skies shrouded in clouds. Accurate and carefulness images bathed in a soft light, images with great emotional and symbolic drama that refer to painting William Turner.
For years, Davies has photographed not only the English countryside and the England’s industrial transformation, especially in the vicinity of Liverpool, but also France, Italy, Spain. Places where nature and industry, past and future coexist, making visible the evolution through certain informative elements.
