The exhibition, curated by Alain D'Hooge and Antoni Garau, presents 140 photographs, some of them unpublished for the general public, and looks back to his first images in 1967, continuing through his last series: profane Altares 2009, and until his last bodegones in 2012.
The exhibition, despite having an evident retrospective character, intends to reveal a Catany different from the traditional vision that the photographic historiography has been giving. For the curators, the life and work of Toni Catany could be defined as an incessant onwards backwards, between Llucmajor and Barcelona, between the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, between interior and exterior, between projects and Memories; among photographic processes of the past, such as the calotype or heliogravure and current technologies such as polaroid transported.
For Catany going on a trip meant to return and find oneself, a journey inside the subjects he was passionate about: bodegones [still lifes], portraits or urban landscapes. All this awakens a hunger for beauty and travel in us, which every visitor to the exhibition can enjoy.
The exhibition, despite having an evident retrospective character, intends to reveal a Catany different from the traditional vision that the photographic historiography has been giving. For the curators, the life and work of Toni Catany could be defined as an incessant onwards backwards, between Llucmajor and Barcelona, between the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, between interior and exterior, between projects and Memories; among photographic processes of the past, such as the calotype or heliogravure and current technologies such as polaroid transported.
For Catany going on a trip meant to return and find oneself, a journey inside the subjects he was passionate about: bodegones [still lifes], portraits or urban landscapes. All this awakens a hunger for beauty and travel in us, which every visitor to the exhibition can enjoy.
Within the educational program of this exhibition the topic has been extended to Canal Meetings (Wednesday at 19.00 h.), Where photography specialists such as Miquel Bezares, Antoni Garau, Olivia Maria Rubio and Laura Terré provide explanatory talks. In addition, every Saturday at 12.00 guided tours will be offered, as well as intergenerational workshops on Sundays at the same time. The program is completed with a photographic round table for adult audiences (Thursday at 19.00 h.) and Mundane Altar photographic divagations (November 26 and December 17), an open calling exploring the neighborhood and the exhibition hall, camera in hand, to Capture objects that evoke the most personal and pictorialist work of Catany.
![Ivo Precek, Pracovní tabule II [Work table II], 1965. "From the center of Europe. Czech photography, 1912-1974". Image courtesy of Juan March Foundation](/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_home_news_category_slider_desktop/public/lead-images/metalocus_fundacionjuanmarch_fotografiacheca_precek-.-pracovni-tabule-ii-1965_p01.webp?h=e382d23c&itok=PryOojGF "Ivo Precek, Pracovní tabule II [Work table II], 1965. \"From the center of Europe. Czech photography, 1912-1974\". Image courtesy of Juan March Foundation")
