Once again this year the Museo ICO in Madrid (on the first of June) will be hosting one of the exhibitions of the PHotoEspaña festival, and it does so under the direction of Juan Baraja. The exhibition entitled "Against all that glitters: Efectos del tiempo" presents the vision of a different perception of the relationship between architecture and space through his photographs.

With multiple locations, his aim is to capture in his work the state of different spaces that have been forgotten in time and abandoned.
The exhibition of Juan Baraja will consist of eight series of photographs that make up a large classification and selection of the author. It is one of the most complete collections of the photographer, so far.

The names of the eight selected series are: Norlandia, Experimento Banana, Cerezales, Águas Livres, Parnaso, Hipódro- mo, Utopie Abitative and Y vasca / Euskal Y.

Juan Baraja works with the relationships that arise between architecture and the management of space through photography. Baraja travels with his camera through different points of the European geography, all of them diverse, but with a thread that unites them: they are spaces forgotten by time. For Alfredo Puente, curator of Juan Baraja's exhibition at the FCAYC (2020),
 
"Juan Baraja recovers a way of facing something in order to imagine it through fragments, with a different composition, far from the parameters that make the complete something rational and apprehensible".
Alfredo Puente.

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Alfredo Puente.
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01.06>11.09.2022.
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Museo ICO, Calle Zorrilla, 3. Madrid, Spain. Visiting hours.- Tuesday to Saturday.- 11 am-08 pm. Sundays and public holidays: 10 am-02 pm.
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Juan Baraja Rodríguez. Toledo, 1984. Bachelor of Fine Arts UB University of Barcelona.


Juan Baraja works with the relationships that arise between architecture and space management through photography.

The journey and the experiences of the human being in the built spaces perpetuate an emotional relationship on which Baraja reflects from very different fields and points of view. Structures, material and light build these places.

The precise and careful composition for each image characterize the result of the analysis made by the photographer, without forgetting the feeling that arises in each place from the experience itself.  And the fact is that both lines and constructive elements, far from appearing novel, show Baraja's subjective look, where light plays an essential role, characteristic not only of the atmosphere of the place, but also of the photographic technique itself.

We enter a meticulously studied landscape that transcends beyond the specific place and allows us to fix our attention on every detail.

There is no doubt about his particular work methodology, that which always imposes a slow rhythm necessary to dedicate enough time to each shot, that which orders and fixes the thought for its subsequent translation to the final format.

 

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