Portraits. Photographs from the MAPFRE Collection

Inauguración:
29 de octubre, 19:00 h

Clausura:
7 de febrero de 2016

Colección MAPFRE

Curador:
Carlos Gollonet

Museo de la Ciudad de México
Pino Suárez 30, Centro Histórico, del. Cuauhtémoc
Distrito Federal
T.: 5522 9936 y 5491 1615

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The Fundación Mapfre will exhibit for the first time in the world a selection of its photographic collections, focused on the theme of the portrait. The exhibition is organized around three central points: «Cities», «Communities» and «Artists and models». Without presenting a historical or encyclopedic interpretation, the exhibit recognizes the influences and parallels among different artists who produced work from 1916 to 2013.

The selection exhibited presents a rather open conception of the portrait and includes images that are as fleeting as the very life in the streets, where the majority of the figures photographed are strangers to the camera. We will enter the intimate space of the family; we will glimpse into the artist’s studio; we will witness the vindication of human rights, as well as the photographer’s inquiry into him or herself through the self-portrait. We will even attend the portrait of the absent person through his intense presence in an abandoned space. In the different settings where these images take place, there are moments of shared joy, of solitude and desperation, of silence and hubbub, of loss and death; moments that are the substrate of the photographic image.

Includes: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Joan Colom, Dayanita Singh, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Emmet Gowin, John Gutmann, Jitka Hanzlová, Graciela Iturbide, Richard Learoyd, Helen Levitt, Anna Malagrida, Fernando Maquieira, Lisette Model, Nicholas Nixon, Robert Frank, Fazal Sheikh, Paul Strand y Garry Winogrand.