In time. Carlos Cánovas

The museum is presenting a retrospective exhibition of the work of Carlos Cánovas. The exhibition will also feature some of the works the artist created for his project "Seventh Heaven" for the Museum's Building Bridges program.

This exhibition offers a journey through the work of photographer Carlos Cánovas, focusing on his production in relation to urban space, which he has developed in successive series from the early 1980s to the present day. His interest in peri-urban areas and the limits of cities has led him to explore different industrial and residential areas, always maintaining a poetic vision of these spaces. The museum is hosting more than a hundred photographs in this exhibition, many of which have never been seen before. The selection begins with his early work, Extramuros ( 1982-1986), developed around the city of Pamplona, and Vallès Oriental (1990), in Barcelona, in which he documents some residual aspects of a Catalonia caught between the industrial and the rural. In Paisajes sin retorno (Landscapes of No Return, 1993-94), Carlos Cánovas records industrial Bilbao in the moments prior to its transformation. His exploration of the peripheries continues in Paisaje Anónimo ( Anonymous Landscape, 1994-2006), with a selection of images that cover different Spanish cities. The exhibition concludes with Séptimo cielo (Seventh Heaven, 2007-2016), his work for the Tender Puentes (Building Bridges) art project promoted by the Museum.

CARLOS CÁNOVAS

He began his photographic career in 1972. He has won numerous awards and distinctions at various national and international photography exhibitions, and since the 1980s he has been a prolific teacher, giving specialized courses and workshops at various centers and universities, both on technical subjects and on the history of photography. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts (Bilbao), the Royal Photographic Society (Madrid), the Sala Polvorín, Ciudadela (Pamplona), and the BBK Foundation (Bilbao); and group exhibitions, notably at the Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg); the Cervantes Institute (Algiers, Oran, Casablanca, Rabat, Milan, Prague, and Rome), and the Reina Sofía National Art Museum (Madrid).