Shadows of the wind aims to walk with the author, Alberto García-Alix, through two blocks of his work and life, in a photographic and self-referential journey told in first person. Divided into two parts, a bridge between past and present, the exhibition becomes, unintentionally, the testimony of an era, which can be visited at the MUSAC until the 31st of January, 2016.
This work summarizes two of his main subjects and which remain a source of inspiration today: the motorcycle and the portraits. Two ways of understanding reality through photography. The bike is the first thing that García-Alix photographed when, in 1975, his father gave him a camera, a first film roll from which several snapshots with great compositional value can be picked. Thereafter, García-Alix would never separate from these two machines: the camera and the motorcycle. Both provide a vehicle for his emotions and the crossing between different paths that we see in his work.
The portrait, extended to the subject and its context, is the center of the second part of the sample and, somehow, the most intense one. This is a direct look at the life of the photographer, his friends, people who have shaped his world, with a vague boundary between professional and personal, who show the happening of time. The work is complemented by the laboratory work where he manages to find an infinite range of gray through which he retrieves the light and the moment he experienced when taking the picture.
Each boxing match is a story: a drama without words. Alberto García-Alix´s photographs are also condensed stories, silent but eloquent stories. These are images imbued with a lyricism and stripped of artifice, poetry that always finds a place to settle within the framework. Direct poetry that explodes before our eyes with the radiance of a whiplash. A vocational fighter, when García Alix concludes one of his joyful battles with images, there is only one winner standing on the canvas: his glance. A frontal view. A look of a fighter. Pure epic.
Gonzalo García Pin.
García-Alix publishes with Cabeza de Chorlito, on the occasion of this project, a publication in the form of photo book, under the title Moto and with an autobiographical text by the author, taking the artist's look on this theme in his work since the 70s until today, expanding the contents of the exhibition.
Artist.- Alberto García-Alix.
Curator.- Nicolás Combarro.
Coordination.- Helena López Camacho.
Dates.- 3rd of October, 2015 - 31st of January, 2016.
Place.- Room 2, MUSAC, Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, León.
