This exhibition of photos by Alberto García-Alix, on show at the Maison Européene de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris from 21 October 2014 to 25 January 2015, brings together a selection of the León-born photographer’s best work of the past five years. Through leaps in time, these photographs establish dialogues with other works from the artist’s past, paying special attention to unpublished works that help contextualise the photographer and his oeuvre.
To cite Alberto García-Alix, Un horizonte falso (A false horizon) is “a world of altered presences trapped in an instant of eternal silence. Here the visible is a metaphor of itself and of a thought. Thought as a revelation fuelled in a monologue that is stretched over a horizon. A false horizon...”
The ambiguity of photography, life, death… Portraiture and self-portraiture, defying natures, urban landscapes and plays on scale dominate García-Alix’s snapshots in this project.
The exhibition is organised by the Maison Européene de la Photographie (MEP) with the collaboration, in addition to AC/E, of the artist’s main galleries: Kamel Mennour (Paris) and Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid). RM publishers have been entrusted with the exhibition catalogue.
To cite Alberto García-Alix, Un horizonte falso (A false horizon) is “a world of altered presences trapped in an instant of eternal silence. Here the visible is a metaphor of itself and of a thought. Thought as a revelation fuelled in a monologue that is stretched over a horizon. A false horizon...”
The ambiguity of photography, life, death… Portraiture and self-portraiture, defying natures, urban landscapes and plays on scale dominate García-Alix’s snapshots in this project.
The exhibition is organised by the Maison Européene de la Photographie (MEP) with the collaboration, in addition to AC/E, of the artist’s main galleries: Kamel Mennour (Paris) and Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid). RM publishers have been entrusted with the exhibition catalogue.