MICTLÁNJOAN FONTCUBERTA
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"Mictlán is an experimental jewel that crystallises in an original artist's book, printed in a signed edition limited to 100 copies. It is presented in an anmate case and the body consists of nine sheets, each one with a different type of paper: kraft, butter, revolution, education, bond, estraza, grey lead, among others. The graphic design has been the responsibility of Ramon Pez, who has excelled in one of his most brilliant achievements".
Joan Fontcuberta
In his exploration of photography in connection with values of truth and memory, in recent years Joan Fontcuberta has been developing the Trauma project, a poetic and conceptual journey diving into historical photographic archives. In them Fontcuberta is interested in those images in a traumatic state, images that are ill due to deterioration caused by humidity, mould or microorganisms. Images that are in the last gasp of representation, reduced to ghostly traces in which the memory fades: their link with reality broken, the visual information is lost and their condition as a document vanishes.
In 2019 Fontcuberta turned to a selection of Mexican archives and took more than a thousand shots from rickety glass negatives. In this beautiful, tragic and sombre Mexican suite, glimpses of the country's history still emerge: the Revolution, dramatic milestones, public figures, social and family life... The collection of these graphic records ranges from portraits of Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata and executions to weddings and christenings and identity photos, from folklore and traditions to landscape and monumental heritage.
Includes the essay MICTLÁN: UN ENSAYO DE HAUNTOLOGÍA FOTOGRÁFICA | MICTLÁN: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HAUNTOLOGY written especially for the book by the author.
(in English and Spanish)
JOAN FONTCUBERTA
Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) is an artist, essayist, teacher and exhibition curator. His creative work deals with the conflicts between nature, technology, photography and truth, and has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and monographic publications over the last four decades. His work has been shown in institutions such as the MoMA, New York (1988); the Musée Cantini, Marseille (1990); the Art Institute, Chicago (1990); the IVAM, Valencia (1992); the MNAC, Barcelona (1999); the MUA, Alicante (2001); the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2001); and ARTIUM, Vitoria (2003).
Recent solo exhibitions include Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (2013); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2014); Science Museum, London (2014); Cosmocaixa, Barcelona (2015); Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (2015); Canal de Isabel II, Madrid (2015); Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona (2016); DA2, Salamanca (2016); Galeria Àngels Barcelona (2016); Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá (2016); Palazzo Boncompagni / Biennale Fotografia e Industria, Fundazioni Mast, Bologna (2017) .His works are in collections such as MoMA (NY), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), San Francisco MoMA, National Gallery of Art (Ottawa), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Musée National d'Art Contemporain - Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MEP (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MACBA (Barcelona) and MNCARS (Madrid).
As a lecturer he has been a visiting professor at various international institutions such as Harvard University and Le Fresnoy. Centre National des Arts Contemporains, France. He has published several books on subjects related to the history, aesthetics and pedagogy of photography: El beso de Judas. Fotografía y Verdad (Ed. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 1997); La cámara de Pandora. La fotografí@ después de la fotografía (Ed. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2010); and La furia de las imágenes. He has been the artistic director of biennials such as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles (the most important photography festival in the world) and the Mois de la Photographie in Montreal, and in 2013 Joan Fontcuberta was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation's international prize. In Spain he has received the National Photography Prize (1998) and the National Essay Prize (2011). In 2012 he received the Premio Nacional de Cultura Artes Visuales from the Catalan government, in 2015 the Premio de Cultura (Photography) de la Comunidad de Madrid, and in 2016 the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona in Humanities.
SPECIAL EDITION
Handmade photobook
Printed on 8 different papers
Presented in an Amate paper box Special edition of 100 numbered and signed.
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All photographs were taken with a SONY ALPHA A7RIV camera.
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE ARCHIVES THAT MADE THE PHOTOGRAPHS ON MICTLÁN POSSIBLE:
Fototeca Pedro Guerra de la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas de la UADY. Fototeca Nacional Pachuca, Mérida Fototeca Pedro Guerra, Fundación Televisa, MAF CDMX, and Colección Acevedo-Mansour, Colección de Estudio Fernando Osorio Alarcón.
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