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"Before Mexican sculptor Damiâan Ortega (born 1967) rose to prominence in the contemporary art world, he was a political cartoonist. This transition was intuitive for Ortega, and his sculptures and installations maintain the piercing, satirical eye required of his former occupation. He is internationally admired for his sculptures that literally deconstruct and reconfigure commercial products such as Coke bottles or, in one of his most celebrated works, a Volkswagen Beetle. Ortega presents these vernacular objects in precise arrangements that cohere into witty representations of diagrams, faces, words and buildings. Many of these pieces, however, are suspended in the air; by virtue of the space between the objects, the resulting representations appear fragmented. This catalog, published alongside the exhibition at Centro Botâin, exclusively displays these suspended works."

Three decades of collaborative projects from a duo at the forefront of the post-photography fieldThis volume provides a 30-year overview of the collaborations between American artist Anthony Aziz (born 1961) and Italian artist Sammy Cucher (born 1958), pioneers in the field of digital art. Synthesizing reality and fiction, their work highlights pathologies associated with unfettered globalization and posthuman conditions.

An affordable primer on the brief but influential career of an early 20th-century avant-garde photographer and revolutionaryItalian-born photographer, model, actor and political activist Tina Modotti is the subject of the first installment of La Fabrica's Essentials, a new series of monographs dedicated to the most fundamental names in photography. Modotti's highly influential career in photography took place entirely during her years living in Mexico, from 1923 to 1930, during which time she was deeply entrenched in Mexico City's avant-garde scene and produced a total of just over 400 black-and-white photographs. Before developing her own practice, Modotti was Edward Weston's favorite model, then lover, darkroom assistant and ultimately, creative partner. She was also close with iconic artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, for whom she photographed many public murals. Her oeuvre, spanning portraiture to photojournalism, fuses the aesthetics of Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde photography aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by socialism and her keen political commitment.Tina Modotti (1896-1942) was born in Udine, Italy and immigrated with her family at the age of 16 to California, where she worked as an artists' model and an actress. In 1922 she moved to Mexico City where she became heavily involved with the communist party, working for the newspaper El Machete, and later founding the Liga Antifascista de México. In 1930 she was exiled and lived as a political refugee throughout Europe and in Moscow before returning to Mexico under a pseudonym in 1939, where she remained until her early death in 1942.

The unique account of Barceló's destroyed frescoThis volume compiles images of a gigantic fresco by Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló for the Françoise Mitterrand National Library in Paris for an exhibition in 2016. When the exhibition ended, Barceló removed the work, making this publication the definitive preservation of its memory.

Portraits of Caracas, writers, artists and Venezuelan culture over the past 40 yearsThis edition of La Fábrica's series PHotoBolsillo focuses on the Venezuelan photographer and poet Vasco Szinetar (born 1948). Many of Szinetar's potent works document the decline of Caracas, or Venezuelan cultural figures.

Basque photographer Ricardo Martín (1882-1936) captured his home city San Sebastián in the midst of the Belle Époque, snapping portraits of Sorolla, Chaplin, Azorín, Unamuno and Pío Baroja, among others. This publication includes his sports-related work as well as photographs from the Hispano-Moroccan war.

"Between October 2014 and June 2015, within the framework of the annual invitation to submit a candidacy, 15 artists resided in the Academia de Espaäna en Roma with a scholarship from the Department for Cultural and Scientific Relationships, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. This catalogue presents the works created by the beneficiaries of the grants during their stay in the Academy, and in line with tradition they will be exhibited in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, in Madrid"--Page 298.

Chiefly illustrations; includes short essay: Aitor Lara, "Todo es de color" = "Everything is colored" by Jordi Esteva.

Catalan photographer Samuel Aranda (born 1979) has spent the last 15 years documenting conflict, migration and social issues around the world, working frequently for The New York Times in Spain and the Middle East. This PHotoBolsillo volume celebrates Aranda's many artistic achievements and accolades.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Antiguo Hospital de Santa Marâia la Rica, Alcalâa de Henares, Spain, June 8-25, 2022, within PHotoEspaäna Festival, Spain, June 1-August 28, 2022.

The little-seen early works of an acclaimed Spanish photojournalistJavier Campano (born 1950) is known for his documentary work on the streets of Madrid. This volume compiles a selection of photographs from his early career, focusing on lesser-known aspects of his practice as well as his photographic output during his travels internationally.

Undersea photography from a prince-turned-climate activistNicknamed "The Green Prince," Hussain Aga Khan (born 1974) has dedicated his career to protecting and preserving marine life in all its forms. Through his involvement with the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and the Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Fund for the Environment, he has spearheaded efforts in disaster risk reduction and natural resource management across the globe. In recent years, Aga Khan has cultivated a private photographic practice also centered on marine and wildlife protection. This volume gathers his photographs of the ocean depths and its inhabitants, taken over several years. The eloquent narrative formed by these extraordinary images serves to inspire conversations on the global impact that oceans have on science, as well as overarching issues of environmental destruction and the extinction of species in the face of the ongoing climate crisis.

This PHotoBolsillo reviews the work of one of the greatest figures of Latin American photography, Alberto Korda. Cardinal figure in the history of Cuban art, Korda is much more than the author of the famous photograph of Che Guevara reproduced countless times all over the world. If the collective epic Cubans lived in the sixties has been identified worldwide through a universe of images of inescapable singularity, this was due to the tact, perseverance and talent of artists like him, who learned to build the visuality of this revolution. This volume shows some of his lesser known facets, such as his portraits of women and his underwater photography series

The MU exhibition comprises of eight sculptures, six of which are located in Grin Grin Park, Fukuoka, the seventh can be found at the Spanish Embassy in Tokyo. The eighth and final sculpture, entitled Dual Year and also located in Tokyo. This volume explores the MU project - from conception to reality.

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso Ibero", Centro Botâin Santander, May - September 2021.

Philippe Parreno is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Paris. A key artist of his generation, he rose to prominence in the 1990's and is regarded as one of the most innovative and intriguing international artists.

Tracing the history of documentary photography, from Walker Evans to Xavier RibasThe medium of photography has long had tenuous ties to both the truth and the arts. This volume traces the evolution of documentary photography--from its origin as a journalistic tool through its development into a distinct artistic and aesthetic form. Beginning in the 1930s with Walker Evans' foundational influence on the genre and culminating in the 1980s with the experimental color work of Anthony Hernández and Tod Papageorge, Sculpting Reality presents a careful selection of work from 18 of the most influential figures in 20th-century North American documentary photography.Photographers include: Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Ricardo Rangel, Garry Winogrand, Susan Meiselas, Tod Papageorge, Anthony Hernández, Mike Mandel, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, Bleda Y Rosa, Xavier Ribas and Ian Wallace.

Rarely seen print suites and book illustrations by the Cubist and proto-Pop pioneerPublished alongside the exhibition at the Fundación Canal in Madrid, The Search for a New Order traces the artistic evolution of Fernand Léger (1881-1955), adopting an underutilized lens: the artist's print series and works for publications. Frequently employing lithographs as his medium of choice, Léger contributed illustrations to accompany others' text--be it essays, poems or stories--and also produced his own series of thematic images. This volume centers on three of his illustration projects: Cubisme (1912-47), a manifesto penned by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger; Les Illuminations (1949), the famous collection by Arthur Rimbaud; and Cirque (1950), an independently executed ode to the circus. Viewed together, these series patently convey the variations within Léger's artistic vocabulary as he endeavored to distill the spirit of the early to mid-20th century.

Klein by Klein: the photographer's homage to the mediumHere, looking back from the perspective of his 90 years, William Klein selects his favorite works, those that he considers to be the very best he has made over the course of his long career, in order to pay homage to the medium of photography itself. This book, appropriately titled Celebration, provides a tour of his most emblematic works, traversing New York, Rome, Moscow, Madrid and Paris, in powerful black and white or striking color. The book also includes a text by the author in which he reflects upon the photographic art and explains what prompted him to make this director's cut, this exceptionally personal selection. A small-format but high-voltage volume, in page after page Celebration makes it clear why Klein's achievement is one of the summits of contemporary photography. Born in New York in 1928, William Klein studied painting and worked briefly as Fernand Léger's assistant in Paris, but never received formal training in photography. His fashion work has been featured prominently in Vogue magazine, and has also been the subject of several iconic photo books, including Life Is Good and Good for You in New York (1957) and Tokyo (1964). In the 1980s, he turned to film projects and has produced many memorable documentary and feature films, such as Muhammed Ali, the Greatest (1969). Klein currently lives and works in Paris, France. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Behind the Wall documents the second edition of an artistic project carried out during the Havana Biennial, in which the city esplanade (el Maleco n) was transformed into a street museum.

For this artist's sketchbook, Spanish painter, author and set designer Eduardo Arroyo (born 1937) created 20 drawings and then mailed them to 20 international artists, such as Bruno Bruni, William Klein and Peter Blake, to make pairs for them. This volume reproduces all 40 works. Text in Spanish only.

A generous introduction to the kinetic and op art pioneer's finest worksOver a career spanning more than five decades, Venezuelan artist Soto (1923-2005) played a fundamental role in the evolution of op and kinetic art, and postwar Latin American abstraction. Breaking away in the 1950s from the conventional separation of painting and sculpture, his practice moved progressively beyond the visual field to become emblematic of the radical shift undergone by the art object in subsequent years. Transcending the optical research of his early work, he formed part of the first group of kinetic artists in Paris together with Jean Tinguely, Iacov Agam and Victor Vasarely. Soto: The Fourth Dimension offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's influential work, from his early abstractions to his Penetrables, as well as his striking murals for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

The Arab Image Foundation (AIF) in Beirut aims to explore the act of collecting through the eyes of Mohsen Yammine, a Lebanese man who found himself compiling through the years a large collection of photographs from Tripoli and northern Lebanon.

Since 2010, Francisca Artigues, the mother of Spanish painter Miquel Barceló (born 1957), has embroidered her son's drawings. Inspired by the Mediterranean and anthropological motifs, Barceló's drawings and Artigues' reproductions on linen featuring the natural habitats of land and sea are documented in Vivarium.

This volume in the PHotoBolsillo series features the work of Spanish filmmaker, writer and photographer, Carlos Saura (born 1932). This publication collects his '50s studies of daily life in rural Spanish villages, recovering from the Spanish Civil War and repressed under the Franco regime.

This volume of the PHotoBilsillo series features the work of Jean Marie del Moral (born 1952) including his famous photos of artists and studios--Miró, Dalí, Lichtenstein, etc.--to his lesser-known street photography of New York, the Balearic Islands, Paris, Montreal, Beijing and Moscow.