On May 13th at 8 pm the opening of the Joan Fontcuberta’s exposition “The Crisis of History” will take place in Kaunas Photography Gallery. During the event, Joan Fotcubeta himself together with exhibition curators Alison Nordström and Cale Garrido will discuss the project and will guide us virtually through the exhibition space.
The exhibition opening will be livestreamed on “Kaunas Gallery” Facebook page.
Time of the event: May 13th 8 pm.
The event will be held in English.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Kaunas Photography Gallery to present famed Spanish artist in his Lithuanian debut.
Renowned artist Joan Fontcuberta will showcase 25 years of work in the exhibition Joan Fontcuberta: Crisis of History from May 13th to June 27th, 2021. Widely shown in Europe and North America, this will be his first exhibition in Lithuania. The exhibition includes three projects featuring previously unknown images that expand and challenge our ideas of history and art.
The Artist and the Photograph (1994-98) presents photographic sketches by Picasso, Miró and Dalí, offering new insights into both painting and the nature of photography; Trepat (2014) examines the results of a 1930’s project to document a Spanish factory by such luminaries as Walker Evans, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Moholy-Nagy, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray; X.B. resurrects the forgotten oeuvre of Ximo Berenguer (1947-1978), a young street photographer little known at the time of his premature death, whose recently rediscovered work captured the energy and grit of Spain in the 70s, at the end of the Franco era.
“Fontcuberta is a brilliantly original artist, curator, writer, historian, and educator,” says Alison Nordström, exhibition curator. “His work examines the role of photography as a shaper of knowledge and we are privileged to bring these three complex installations to Kaunas for the first time”.
The catalogue of the exhibitionis can be purchased: https://shop.kaunasgallery.lt/en/product/joan-fontcuberta-crisis-of-history/
Conceived by: Joan Fontcuberta
Curators: Alison Nordström, Cale Garrido
Designer: Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė
Special thanks: Simone Kessler
Exhibition will take place until June 27th.
Exhibition is funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Embassy of Spain in Lithuania.