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Indepth Arts News:
"Alberto Garcia-Alix: Tell Me Words Of Love In Spanish"
2002-04-18 until 2002-05-24
Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Tell Me Words Of Love In Spanish will consist of
Alberto Garcia-Alix's intensely passionate,
photographic views of Madrid and the unique
personalities who have been inhabiting the Spanish
capital during and since the post-Franco era, known
as La Movida. This exhibition of silver gelatin prints from
the late 1980's to the present aims to examine the role of the
artist as both participant and creator of the culture-at-large
from its earliest stages on the fringes of society to its
evolved stages within the mainstream.
Tell Me Words Of Love In Spanish will include
portraits of Rossy de Palma (star of the films of
Pedro Almodovar), Johnny Thunders, and Martin
Kippenberger.
Alberto Garcia-Alix is the winner of the 1999 National
Photography Prize of Spain. Mr. Garcia-Alix is the
foremost photographer to emerge from Spain's La
Movida, the post-Franco era of free, and often
flamboyant, individual expression. A devotee of
motorcycles and tattoos and an aficionado of underground
art, Mr. Garcia-Alix is also a publisher of poetry books and
the cultural journal, El Canto de la Tripulación.
Mr. Garcia-Alix's work has been exhibited in Madrid,
Barcelona, Brussels, London, Manchester, Havana,
and Manila. In 1998, a survey exhibition of his career
to-date was presented at El Círculo de Bellas Artes
in Madrid during the inaugural edition of,
PHotoEspana, Madrid's annual photography festival.
Mr. Garcia-Alix's work is in the collection of the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid;
the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid;
the Banco Caja de Burgos, Burgos; the Banesto Bank,
Madrid; Coca-Cola Spain, Madrid, and other
prominent institutions.
This will be Mr. Garcia-Alix's first exhibition in North
America.
IMAGE:
ALBERTO GARCÍA-ALIX
Jana y Perdita
1997
Silver gelatin print
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