The exhibition "Atrapar la vida. Eugeni Forcano. Fotografías" presents the best known works by Eugeni Forcano, in black and white, as well as, his experimental work in color.
The exhibition, which is part of the Official Selection PhotoEspaña 2014, will be open at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando from July 18 to August 31.
A tour through his work, without claiming to be exhaustive or complete, including work by the photographer who has received the highest accolades. Daniel Giralt-Miracle, curator of the exhibition, has selected one hundred twenty five images taken between 1960 and 1974, corresponding to some of the issues that seduced the photographer, as Barcelona Development, Rural life, Banyoles. Market Day, Gypsy People, The magic of the holidays, forms of dictatorship, Priests and nuns, human miseries, Life on the Street, The Seduction of an instant or types of character.
A final section of the exhibition, Experimental Photography, showing twenty images taken between 1980 and 1995, representing the period with which Forcano experimented with color and light as imagers, and, moreover, is the culmination of his life professional. All this is complemented by a selection of magazines and books that reproduced the photographer's work, from the National Library of Spain and the private collection of Daniel Giralt-Miracle, in addition to the projection of the chapter Forcano included in the project; La voz de la imagen.
The exhibition is organized by Subdirección General de Promoción de las Bellas Artes del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte in collaboration with the Royal Academy and is included in the official section of PhotoEspaña 2014.
Eugeni Forcano was National Photography Prize 2012 and is one of the foremost chroniclers of Spain in the last years of the war and the Franco regime. The exhibition is part of the Official Selection PhotoEspaña 2014, which opened two exhibitions in July: Masks of Alberto Schommer in the Museo del Prado and Self Portrait, Alberto García-Alix in the Fine Arts.
Eugeni Forcano borns in Barcelona in 1926, although his family originated and lives in Canet de Mar, a town in which he spends his childhood and youth, and where he set his first photo lab. In 1949 he joined the Fotogràfica Agrupació de Catalunya until 1960 but his dedication to photography is amateur. It is precisely this year when, following winning the summer photo contest held annually by the weekly Destino, decides to leave his job and pursue photography professionally. He starts by reports in black and white social aspect in Barcelona, but soon runs throughout Catalunya seeking chronic reflect life in towns and cities.
Later makes forays into the world of fashion and advertising and by choice ends his career researching the color. His work has earned many awards, among them the City of Barcelona Photography Prize (1963 and 1976), the Gold Medal for Artistic Merit from the City of Barcelona (2009) and the Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the National Photography Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (2012).
