Within the context of the new exhibition 'The Architecture Gallery' which has been recently opened we bring you the photographer Adrià Goula, about we have published before several works for different architecture projects from architects as Josep Lluis Mateo and others.

In addition to architectural photography, Adrià Goula, one of the photographers of reference of our country, does personal works, as the Monocroms series, shown below as part of the opening of  'The Architecture Gallery'.

"Show photo as a new independent and self-sufficient object, and not just as a window into another reality. I am interested to look not appealing image, but is retained in the photograph itself, in the photographic print itself. Out of perspective, or perhaps better window, do not enter any space, in any other reality. In this time when we are constantly running away from our everyday life, television, film, resvistas, internet, constantly featuring images that absorb us and lead us to other worlds. This proposal aims at confronting the viewer with an image that allows you to escape and let you indulge in the beauty of the real, imperfect.

The Monocroms project is, in a way, image and metaphor of this. This series began with the meeting, in a journey through the United States, these buildings with doors and windows boarded up. All painted one color to mask removal openings. We see nothing in them , they have no depth , everything is on the surface. In these pictures it seems that we can enter the photo window, but slows us down and impermeability of the frontal image. Stuck in a narrow space between our world and a space -window becomes impenetrable. The photographic representation itself is a metaphor for what is happening to us, windows and doors are tapidadas. No communication between inside and outside. You can not enter. As scenes of Roman theaters, which were built without architectural background, here the city has become a mere decoration. But there is no space object. Only traces remain of this confinement. There is no transparency, we have to recreate the picture itself, the formal characteristics of the image and the object described: graphic aspects, geometries, textures, colors, details, relationships between parts and the whole, series, singularities... These are images that suggest an open window, but finally closed again; images that look vibrates between the figurative and the abstract "

BlackP7C was a finalist for the 2012  AENA awards and the Monocroms series published in the catalog.

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Adrià Goula Sardà (Barcelona, 1973) was formed in the School of Architecture in Barcelona where he obtained a degree in architecture in 2000 and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in 2007. He works as an architect in various offices in Barcelona (Enric Miralles (EMBT) and Coll-Leclerc arquitectos, etc..) and Paris (Yves Lion architectes et urbanistes) and in 2005 founded his firm "aH! arquitectura" together with Helen Silvy-Leligois.

Alongside professional start in photography of architecture, which will become its main activity. In this area, performs work for renowned architects locally and internationally (Yves Lion, Josep Mias, Josep Lluis Mateo, Eduard Bru, Vicente Guallart, Fermin Vazquez (b720 architects), Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores, etc.), and to various public and private institutions (City of Barcelona, Barcelona Metropolitan Area (MMAMB) Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona (CCCB), Musée des Monuments Français, Aéroports de Catalunya, Escofet, etc..)

Has published several monographic books: "On building of Josep Lluis Mateo" (Ed. Actar), "b720" (TC quadernos), " Ciutat Vella de Barcelona: memòria urbà d'un proces" (Ed. Criteria) and "Barceloneta Market of Josep Mias "(Ed. Actar) and has collaborated with multiple books and magazines, national and international (METALOCUS, AV, Domus, Abitare, Quaderns, AMC, Frame, On diseño, Arquitectura y Diseño, C3, Detail, etc ...). He has also been a professor of photography at the Escola Sert in Barcelona, has participated in several workshops and has lectured at various universities and schools.

He also developed a personal photo work beyond the architecture, that has been exposed individually in Paris ("NY" in Salón de Torigny, November 2003), Bordeaux ("Murs" in June 2009 and "Vietnam" in April 2011 in Atélier Dartois) and Barcelona ("NY" in June 2004 and "De-Construcción" in June 2010 in the Col.legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya). Currently, he's preparing an exhibition at the Gallery Kowasa in Barcelona for September 2012. He also published a book of his personal work "De-Construcción" by Fundación Esteyco in November 2009.

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