BALLESTER NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
11/11/2010.
José Manuel Ballester
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960), wins National Photography Award for their innovative capacity. Argued that the jury awarded the prize "for his personal career, from the arts and crystallized rigorously in the field of photography, unique interpretation of architectural space and light, and for his outstanding contribution to the renewal of photographic techniques."
Main Hall (CBD ) 2005 Photograph/paper Kodak Profesional Endura / 256,4 X 178,5 cm. METALOCUS 022.
Untitled (yellow river 4) 2005 Photography on Fuji crystal archiv / 64.2 X 109.2 cm. METALOCUS 022.
sala blanca_1_rijksmuseum 2005_traspasar el vacio.
New cafa_2_la gran ciudad en la china actual.
Fabrica Lina Bo Bardi_2_2007_fervor de metropolis
Habitación Mao 2, 2005. Photography on Fuji Cristal Archiv. / 122,3 X 166,9 cm. METALOCUS 022.
Shanghai 6 2006. Photography on Fuji Cristal Archiv. / 72,2 X 110 cm. / 28,43 X 43,31 inch. METALOCUS 022.
Logo Web Jose Manuel Ballester
For José Manuel Ballester, reshaping the mental view of reality by means of craftsmanship does not seem to consist only of the freezing of time through a space in an image; he does not even limit himself to being a notary of the existence of a place. Ballester establishes a visual discourse of a reality, which when frozen, transcends the action which man is producing in it, to establish a metalinguistic discourse on the ways of inhabiting and creating a place. Understanding place as Yin Fu Tuan would propose, as the space where man interacts with other individuals or with a specific space.
These spaces reflected in his photographs acquire the condition of place when, due to their absent presence or explicit presence, people are used as plots, and the condition of establishing a narrative discourse on hyperscale, power, dynamism, change, mutation, sensed movement, as opposed to the inert architectural, urban or infrastructural object.
.../... If art shows us this diversity, the potential of its architecture and urban planning, when Ballester shows it to us, it seems to want to go at breakneck speed, even ahead of Western proposals, in a delirious process of creation of the future.
His view seems to be a clearing in the stressful forest of urban growth, a view which brings past memories with flashes of memories which are yet to come.Heterotopies?
Abstract from the text published in METALOCUS 022 by José Juan Barba.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN METALOCUS.-
022 METALOCUS. China | José Manuel Ballester
023 METALOCUS. Espacios Ocultos. Distritocu4tro Gallería. Madrid. España | Hidden Spaces. Distritocu4tro Gallery. Madrid. Spain | José Manuel Ballester
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JOSÉ MANUEL BALLESTER
José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960) is a painter and a photographer. Degree in Fine Arts, 1984. Since then he has won various awards and scholarships. He has participated in a lot of exhibitions all over the world, including the international ARCO fair for the last ten years. His work forms part of the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and it has been exhibited in Beijing, Canada, New York, London, Sao Paulo, France, Germany, Tokyo and Colombia. First Prize in Painting in the XVIII Biennial of Alexandria and the National Print Award, 1998.Premio Nacional de Fotografía 2010.
His artistic career began with a particular attention on the technique of the Italian and Flemish painting of the XV and XVIII centuries. Since 1990, he started to blend painting and photography. We can highlight, between his numerous exhibitions, Lugares de paso, Valencia, 2003; Setting Out, New York, 2003; or Habitación 523, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005; and recently Fervor de metrópolis, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011; La abstracción de la realidad, Sala Alcalá 31, Community of Madrid and DA2, Salamanca, 2011; and Espacios ocultos in the Spanish Academy, Rome, 2012. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in art fairs as ARCO, Art Chicago, Artforum Germany, Paris Photo and Art Miami and in cities such as Dallas, Paris, Miami, São Paulo, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and many others. And some more current ones like: Gli Spazi Nascosti di José Manuel Ballester Nei Palazzi di Genova, Museo di Palazzo Reale e Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa, Italy (2017), Paisajes encontrados: El Bosco, El Greco, Goya, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain (2016), Museos en blanco, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain (2015).
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JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
José Juan Barba (1964) architect from ETSA Madrid in 1991. Special Mention in the National Finishing University Education Awards 1991. PhD in Architecture ETSAM, 2004. He founded his professional practice in Madrid in 1992 (www.josejuanbarba.com). He is an architecture critic and editor-in-chief of METALOCUS magazine since 1999, and he was advising different NGOs until 1997. He has been a lecturer (in Design, Theory and Criticism, and Urban planning) and guest lecturer at different national and international universities (Roma TRE, Polytechnic Milan, ETSA Madrid, ETSA Barcelona, UNAM Mexico, Univ. Iberoamericana Mexico, University of Thessaly Volos, FA de Montevideo, Washington, Medellin, IE School, U.Alicante, Univ. Europea Madrid, UCJC Madrid, ESARQ-U.I.C. Barcelona,...).
Maître de Conférences IUG-UPMF Grenoble 2013-14. Full assistant Professor, since 2003 up to now at the University of Alcalá School of Architecture, Madrid, Spain. And Jury in competitions as Quaderns editorial magazine (2011), Mies van der Rohe Awards, (2010-2022), Europan13 (2015). He has been invited to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 2016 as part "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione".
He has published several books, the last in 2016, "#positions" and in 2015 "Inventions: New York vs. Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, Piranesi " and collaborations on "Spaces of Exception / Spazi d'Eccezione", "La Mansana de la discordia" (2015), "Arquitectura Contemporánea de Japón: Nuevos territorios" (2015)...
Awards.-
- Award. RENOVATION OF SEGURA RIVER ENVIRONMENT, Murcia, Sapin, 2010.
- First Prize, RENOVATION GRAN VÍA, “Delirious Gran Vía”, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
- First Prize, “PANAYIOTI MIXELI Award”. SADAS-PEA, for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture Athens, 2005.
- First Prize, “SANTIAGO AMÓN Award," for the Spreading of Knowledge of Architecture. 2000.
- Award, “PIERRE VAGO Award." ICAC -International committee of Art Critics. London, 2005.
- First Prize, C.O.A.M. Madrid, 2000. Shortlisted, World Architecture Festival. Centro de Investigación e Interpretación de los Ríos. Tera, Esla y Orbigo, Barcelona, 2008.
- First Prize. FAD AWARD 07 Ephemeral Interventions. “M.C.ESCHER”. Arquin-Fad. Barcelona, Sapin 2007.
