The American photographer Robert Adams at the Reina Sofía
15/01/2013.
Museo Reina Sofia MNCARS [MAD] Spain. 15/01 > 20/05/2013
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metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The Reina Sofia Museum presents the first major retrospective to be held in Europe American photographer Robert Adams.
Ranch Northeast of Keota, Colorado, 1969. Silver gelatin print, 18.9 x 23.2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Photography courtesy of MNCARS.
Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1969. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 14.3 x 15.1 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Frame for a Tract House, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1969. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 15,2 x 15,2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
In a New Subdivision, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1969. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 15,2 x 15,2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1968. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 15,1 x 15,2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Quarried Mesa Top, Pueblo County, Colorado, 1978. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 22,7 x 28,3 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Longmont, Colorado, 1979. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 12,7 x 12,7 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Edge of San Timoteo Canyon, looking toward Los Angeles, Redlands, California, 1978. (Borde del San Timoteo Canyon, mirando hacia Los Ángeles, Redlands, California) Impresión de gelatina de plata, 31,8 x 39,1 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Santa Ana Wash, Redlands, California, 1983. (Impresión de 1991) Impresión de gelatina de plata, 20 x 13,2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Untitled, Untitled, from the series Listening to the River, 1985-1987. (Sin título, de la serie Escuchando el Río) Impresión de gelatina de plata, 20 x 13,2 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Sitka spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry Countly, Oregon, 1999-2000. (Picea Stika, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregón) Impresión de gelatina de plata, 42,9 x 34,3 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Next to an Old-Growth Stump, Coos Countly, Oregon, 1999-2003. (Kerstin junto a un tocón maduro, Coos County, Oregón) Impresión de gelatina de plata, 27,9 x 22,5 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
Southwest from the South Jetty, Clatsop County, Oregon, 1992. Impresión de gelatina de plata, 22,4 x 27,8 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, adquirida gracias a las donaciones de Saundra B. Lane, Trellis Fund y Janet and Simeon Braguin. Fotografía cortesía del MNCARS.
This is the first great retrospective in Europe on North American photographer Robert Adams (Orange, New Jersey, 1937), widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential chroniclers of the American West.
Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs. The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs will offer a unique opportunity to see Adam’s most important works. Each of Adam’s major projects will be represented, from his early pictures of quiet buildings and monuments erected by settlers of his native Colorado, continuing with selections from his acclaimed series The New West and Summer Nights, or his most recent images of beaches and migratory birds in the Pacific Northwest. Also, a wide range of texts taken from his writings, indispensable to understand his creative practice, will be included. The exhibition will feature nearly 300 photographs in black-and-white, dated between 1965 and 2007, proceeding from the Yale University Art Gallery, owner of the artist’s complete archive.
In a career spanning four decades, Adams has developed a photographic work known for its austerity. The show will trace through images the engagement between the artist and American life and his pursuit of redemptive light and beauty amidst mankind’s relationship with the natural world. Robert Adams: The Place We Live weaves together the diverse aspects of the photographer’s work into a cohesive epic of the American experience in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Dates.- 15 January – 20 May 2013.
Place.- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Building Sabatini. 3rd floor. Madrid.
CREDITS.
Organised by.- Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) in colaboration with Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Curated by.- Joshua Chuang y Jock Reynolds.
Coordinated by.- Rafael García.
Itinerary.- Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Alemania (summer 2013) // Jeu de Paume, París (autumn 2013) // Media Space, Londres (spring 2014) // Fotomuseum Winterthur, Suiza (summer 2014).
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ROBERT ADAMS
Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937, and moved later with his family to Denver, Colorado. After receiving a PhD in California, he returned to Colorado in 1962 as an assistant professor of English at Colorado College. Disturbed by the rapid transformation of the Colorado Springs and Denver areas, Adams began photographing a cherished landscape newly replete with tract homes, highways, strip malls, and gas stations.
Since his beginnings as a photographer, photography publications have had a main position in his practice. Books such as Perfect Times, Perfect Places; Listening to the River and Pine Alley demonstrate that Adams has also been devoted to recording the glory that remains in the West. Additionally, he has written insightful and eloquent essays on the practice and goals of art, which have been collected in the volumes Beauty in Photography (1981) and Why People Photograph (1994). Since 1997 he has lived in Oregon, the landscape of which has been the subject of his last 20 years of work.
Adams’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Denver Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as well as a major midcareer retrospective organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989. Among the artist’s many awards is the Spectrum International Prize for Photography (1995), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2006), and the Hasselblad Award (2009).
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