Interactions. Javier Vallhonrat
WORKSHOPSWITH JAVIER VALLHONRAT
| Workshop in Maladeta | Workshop on generating photography projects |
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| Date: September 4 to 6 | Date: September 11 to 13 |
| Location: Maladeta Massif, Pyrenees of Huesca | Location: University of Navarra Museum |
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Workshop to be held at the starting point of the project |
The workshop approaches creativity as a set of skills and processes that we deploy through artistic exploration, experimentation, and action. |
| Further information | Further information |
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The University of Navarra Museum is hosting a new exhibition that occupies the six rooms on the -1 floor, with 1,200 m² of exhibition space. Interactions, 2011-2015,isthe most recent collection of works by artistJavier Vallhonrat. This exhibition brings together a total of 52 photographic works, seven videos, and a video installation, structured in five distinct parts: 42ºN - Standard Drift - Margin Record - Limit Friction - Eolionimia. |
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| Interacciones has been developed in high mountain environments and extreme weather conditions. The artist has worked in these areas, creating images that confront uncertainty and unpredictability with the human need for control and predictability. This project is understood as an exploration of the mountain experience, the fragility of man in the face of nature and extreme conditions, but also as a questioning of different modes of landscape representation. | |||
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The experience of the slow passage of time and the uncertain space of the high mountains occur in conditions that foster a state of vulnerability. In these circumstances, the perception of the ecological and geoclimatic niche of the high mountains, alien and threatening, gradually transforms into a perception of an equally vulnerable place where knowledge and immediate experience can dialogue in the face of conditions of uncertainty. |
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| Interacciones originated from Javier Vallhonrat's participation in the Tender Puentes project, promoted since 200202 by the Museum to create contemporary works based on the historical pieces preserved in the Museum. For this project, the photographer focuses his attention on two photographs of the Maladeta massif in the Huesca Pyrenees, taken by Viscount Joseph Vigier after climbing from Luchon to Portillón de Benasque at an altitude of 2,440 meters in the summer of 1853. Vigier's images are the starting point for a dialogue with one of the first photographers to confront the mountain from direct experience. This work is the result of 42ºN, aof the parts that make up Interactions. | |||
IMAGES OF INTERACTIONS (2011-2015)
The artist: Javier Vallhonrat
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His major solo exhibitions include those at the Taidemuseo in Porin, Finland, France, the Santa Monica Museum in Barcelona, the National Photography Center in Paris, the Telefónica Foundation, and Canal de Isabel II in Madrid. Notable group exhibitions include those at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1988; the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, Madrid, in 1991; the La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona, in 1992; the Cartier Foundation, Cahors, France, in 1994; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, in 1996; the Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, in 2001; and the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 2006. His work is present in the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Banco de España Collection (Madrid), the Maison Européene de la Photo (Paris), The Marsh Collection (London), the International Polaroid Collection (Boston), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia), and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean of Luxembourg (Luxembourg). Javier Vallhonrat's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 1995 National Photography Award from the Ministry of Culture, the Award of Excellence from the Society of Newspaper Design in the US, the Silver Award from New York Times Magazine, US, 1994, the Art Directors Club 76th Annual Awards, US, the Bartolomé Ros PhotoEspaña Award 2007, and the Community of Madrid Photography Award 2009.
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