PHOTOESPAÑA 2016 FOCUSES ON THE PROFUSION OF “EUROPES” WITHIN A PLURALITY OF IDENTITIES AND VISIONS OF THE CONTINENT
13/05/2016
The Festival features 330 artists in 94 exhibitions, and 16 programs and activities in 52 national and international venues, including individual shows dedicated to Bernard Plossu, Lucia Moholy, Shirley Baker, Carlos Saura, Juana Biarnés, Miroslav Tichý, Cristina de Middel, Linarejos Moreno, Vivian Maier, Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Andrea Robbins & Max Becher
The diverse visions of Europe are also represented by group shows featuring the work of Anders Petersen, Antoine D´Agata, Thomas Ruff, Juergen Teller, Anton Corbijn, Clare Strand, and Chris Steele-Perkins, among others
New festival sites include Segovia and Murcia, along with Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Alcobendas, Lanzarote and Zaragoza
Castilla–La Mancha is the first autonomous community to participate in PHotoEspaña in a unified manner, with Visions of La Mancha, a photographic survey featuring shows by Caio Reisewitz, Montserrat Soto, Jordi Bernadó, Ferdinando Scianna and John Davies, in commemoration of the 4th Centenary of the death of Cervantes
PHotoEspaña’s European venues include museums and festivals in Bratislava, Chalon Sur Saône, Dublin, Istanbul, Helsinki, London, Moscow, Paris, Riga, Rotterdam and Warsaw
32 Madrid galleries are participating in the Festival Off, with projects by Nanna Hänninen, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Basurama and Juan de Sande, among others
Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña’s principal professional forum, featuring 40 experts and 160 artists reviewing portfolios and presenting workshops and seminars, at the Centro de Arte de Alcobendas just outside Madrid
PHotoEspaña takes to the streets of Madrid with activities for the public: workshops for children and teens, contests, a photo marathon, round tables and nighttime projections
Trasatlántica, the forum for photography and visual arts in Latin America, presents portfolio reviews in Peru, Panama and Dakar, the latter city PHotoEspaña’s first incursion into Africa
La Fábrica will publish the PHotoEspaña 2016 Guide as well as 7 books and catalogues, focusing PHotoBook Week on the publication of photography books
More information at: www.phe.es
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