'Landscapes framed. European photographic missions, 1984-2019 ' Exhibition at the ICO museum
26/05/2019.
[MAD] Spain 7/06/19 > 8/09/19
metalocus, ÁLVARO MUÑOZ
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On June 6, 2019, the photographic exhibition "Paisajes framed, European Photographic Missions, 1984-2019" opens at the ICO museum, curated by Frits Gierstberg and included in the PHotoEspaña19 program that collects the work of 60 photographers in 7 countries. These photographs were taken in Europe between 1984 and 2019 and try to show the evolution of the European landscape between those years.
Gabriele Basilico Le Tréport (Seine Maritime), 1985 Serie Bord de mer, Mission photographique of la DATAR Bibliothèque nationale of France. Image courtesy of © Archivio Gabriele Basilico, Milano.
Ralph Hinterkeuser “Estamos aquí”, Seclin, 2001 Serie Lille Metropolis Mission photographique Transmanche n°. 25, 1991 CRP / Centre régional of the photographie Hauts-de-France. Image Courtesy of © Ralph Hinterkeuser.
Bernard Plossu without title, 1992 SerieRoute Nationale 1 Mission photographique Transmanchen°. 10, 1992 CRP / Centre régional of the photographie Hauts-de-France. Image courtesy of © Bernard Plossu.
Marilyn Bridges, Bridges and viaduct over Oise river, Ohis, 1992 Serie A vista de pájaro Mission photographique Transmanche n°. 21, 1996 CRP / Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France. Image courtesy of © Marilyn Bridges 1992.
Michel Kempf without title, 1989 Highway Series A26 Calais-Reims Mission photographique Transmanchen°. 2, 1989 CRP / Centre régional of the photographie Hauts-de-France. Image courtesy © Michel Kempf.
Guido Guidi Serie Laboratorio di fotografia 1. Rubiera, 1989 Linea di Confine per la Fotografia contemporanea - Rubiera, Reggio Emilia, Italy. Image courtesy of © Guido Guidi.
Walter Niedermayr Serie TAV. Viadotto Modena (TAV Linea veloce Bologna-Milano),2005 Linea di Confine per la Fotografia contemporanea - Rubiera, Reggio Emilia, Italia. Image courtesy of © Walter Niedermayr.
Gerry Johansson Kropp, 1991 Misión Ekodok-90, Suecia Cortesía del fotógrafo. Image courtesy of © Gerry Johansson.
![Joachim Richau Stairs next to the river Oder, mayo de 1995 Serie La isla de Kietz cerca de Küstrin, 1994 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Joachim Richau.](https://www.metalocus.es/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_news_carousel_item_desktop/public/metalocus_landscapes-framed_european-photographic-missions1984-2019_09.jpg?itok=mqH5SI42 "Joachim Richau Stairs next to the river bridge Oder, mayo de 1995 Serie La isla de Kietz cerca de Küstrin, 1994 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Joachim Richau.")
Joachim Richau Stairs next to the river bridge Oder, mayo de 1995 Serie La isla de Kietz cerca de Küstrin, 1994 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Joachim Richau.
![Monika Lawrenz Walk with apple trees Gross Pankow a Guhlsdorf, dirección Guhlsdorf, 10 de mayo de 1995 Serie Paseos con frutales en Prignitz, 1995 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Monika Lawrenz.](https://www.metalocus.es/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_news_carousel_item_desktop/public/metalocus_landscapes-framed_european-photographic-missions1984-2019_10.jpg?itok=qTNvcZPh "Monika Lawrenz Walk with apple trees Gross Pankow a Guhlsdorf, dirección Guhlsdorf, 10 de mayo de 1995 Serie Paseos con frutales en Prignitz, 1995 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Monika Lawrenz.")
Monika Lawrenz Walk with apple trees Gross Pankow a Guhlsdorf, dirección Guhlsdorf, 10 de mayo de 1995 Serie Paseos con frutales en Prignitz, 1995 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Monika Lawrenz.
Meret Wandeler, Ulrich Görlich Long-term photographic observation of Schlieren, 2010 Zurich University of the Arts / Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Suiza. Image courtesy of © Meret Wandeler © Ulrich Görlich, VEGAP, Madrid, 2019
Iosif Király Sibiu, 2011 Misión RO_Archive, Romania. Image courtesy of © Iosif Király.
Daniel Gherca Corabia, 2014 Mission RO_Archive, Iosif Király Sibiu, 2011 Misión RO_Archive, Romania. Image courtesy of © Iosif Király.. Image courtesy of © Dani Gherca.
Christina Capetillo Granite quarry Bertelegård, Paradisbakkerne, Bornholm, 2009 Misión Lugares. Dinamarca en transición Brandts - Museum of Art & Visual Culture. Image courtesy of © Christina Capetillo.
Janne Klerk Fyns Hoved, 2008 Brandts - Museum of Art & Visual Culture. Image courtesy of © Janne Klerk, VEGAP, Madrid, 2019.
Josef Koudelka, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1988. CRP / Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France. Image courtesy of © Josef Koudelka / Magnum Photos.
This photographic compilation the ICO museum tries to make people reflect on the transformation of the landscape from the photographer's eye. In these photographs, the different social changes, such as mine closure, urban growth or the abandonment of crops, were translated into the modification of the European landscape.
The exhibition brings together eight long-lasting photographic proposals carried out in Europe from 1984 to 2019. The exhibition shows the work of almost sixty photographers, accompanied by the numerous publications that were published in the context of the selected missions: Mission photographique de la DATAR (France), Mission photographique Transmanche (France), Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea (Italy), Ekodok-90 (Sweden), Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Photography and memory] (Germany), Long-term photographic observation of Schlieren (Switzerland) ), RO_Archive (Romania) and Places. Denmark in transition (Denmark).
These research have in common the reflection on the landscape in transformation through the work of the photographers, although they differ a lot in the way of doing it. When the photographer has carte blanche, he can interpret the landscape with complete freedom.
The exhibition brings together eight long-lasting photographic proposals carried out in Europe from 1984 to 2019. The exhibition shows the work of almost sixty photographers, accompanied by the numerous publications that were published in the context of the selected missions: Mission photographique de la DATAR (France), Mission photographique Transmanche (France), Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea (Italy), Ekodok-90 (Sweden), Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Photography and memory] (Germany), Long-term photographic observation of Schlieren (Switzerland) ), RO_Archive (Romania) and Places. Denmark in transition (Denmark).
These research have in common the reflection on the landscape in transformation through the work of the photographers, although they differ a lot in the way of doing it. When the photographer has carte blanche, he can interpret the landscape with complete freedom.
"The landscape is culture. It is the expression of a living community and the sediment of the way that community has had to shape its existence. Or, as the influential American landscape painter John Brinckerhoff Jackson said, landscape is history made visible "
Frits Giertsberg, curator of the exhibition
The major transformations of the European landscape during the 1970s and 1980s were largely due to the decline of heavy industry and the closure of mines. On the other hand, the rapid growth of the service economy and mass tourism, and the increase in mobility in general, required significant adaptations of the landscape. Technological innovations changed traditional agriculture and, with it, also the landscape, which from then on housed other crops, and on a much larger scale.
The progressive decline of traditional agriculture resulted in a migratory flow to the big cities, while their centers were emptied and peripheral neighborhoods emerged. In many large cities, the consequence was an exponential growth of the outskirts.
The French project of the DATAR, in the eighties, was an important source of inspiration for other promoters of photographic research on the landscape. Its incidence is explained both by the ambitions and the magnitude of the project, as well as by the cast of photographers selected to participate in it. The DATAR was a special initiative of an official agency whose objective was the planning of the territory. The planning of the photographic research responded, among other things, to the awareness that future changes in the French landscape would have drastic consequences for a significant number of people.
The exhibition shows the work of almost sixty photographers, accompanied by the numerous publications that were published in the context of the selected missions: Mission photographique de la DATAR (France), Mission photographique Transmanche (France), Linea di Confine per la Fotografia Contemporanea (Italy), Ekodok-90 (Sweden), Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Photography and memory] (Germany), Long-term photographic observation of Schlieren (Switzerland), RO_Archive (Romania) and Places. Denmark in transition (Denmark).
![Joachim Richau Stairs next to the river Oder, mayo de 1995 Serie La isla de Kietz cerca de Küstrin, 1994 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Joachim Richau.](https://www.metalocus.es/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_news_gallery_deskop/public/metalocus_landscapes-framed_european-photographic-missions1984-2019_09.jpg?itok=z8UTaSKK "Joachim Richau Stairs next to the river bridge Oder, mayo de 1995 Serie La isla de Kietz cerca de Küstrin, 1994 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Joachim Richau.")
![Monika Lawrenz Walk with apple trees Gross Pankow a Guhlsdorf, dirección Guhlsdorf, 10 de mayo de 1995 Serie Paseos con frutales en Prignitz, 1995 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Monika Lawrenz.](https://www.metalocus.es/sites/default/files/styles/mopis_news_gallery_deskop/public/metalocus_landscapes-framed_european-photographic-missions1984-2019_10.jpg?itok=6zfAyGu9 "Monika Lawrenz Walk with apple trees Gross Pankow a Guhlsdorf, dirección Guhlsdorf, 10 de mayo de 1995 Serie Paseos con frutales en Prignitz, 1995 Misión Fotografie und Gedächtnis [Fotografía y memoria], Alemania Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst Cottbus und Frankfurt (Oder). Image courtesy of © Monika Lawrenz.")
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Curator
Frits Gierstberg
Photographers
Lewis Baltz, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu, Michele Bressan, Marilyn Bridges, Christina Capetillo, Valentin Cernat, Krass Clement, John Davies, Tim Davis, Paola De Pietri, Raymond Depardon, Claude Dityvon, Robert Doisneau, Tom Drahos, Jean-Louis Garnell, Peter Gerdehag, Daniel Gherca, Albert Giordan, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Ulrich Görlich, John Gossage, William Guerrieri, Guido Guidi, Rudolf Hartmetz, Ralph Hinterkeuser, Nicolai Howalt, Gerry Johansson, Michel Kempf, Iosif Király, Janne Klerk, Josef Koudelka, Monika Lawrenz, Philippe Lesage, Carl-Johan Malmberg, Andrei Mateescu, Elmar Mauch, Vlad Mihailescu, Francesco Neri, Walter Niedermayr, Raluca Paraschiv (Ionescu), Bernard Plossu, Bas Princen, Jürgen Rehrmann, Joachim Richau, Sophie Ristelhueber, Henrik Saxgren, Christian Schwager, Stephen Shore, Larisa Sitar, Gunnar Smoliansky, Trine Søndergaard, Meret Wandeler, John S. Webb, Thomas Wolf.
Schedule
From June 7 to September 8, 2019. Hours.- Tuesday to Saturday: 11.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Sundays and holidays: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Closed: Mon. Free entrance
Venue
Museo ICO, C/ Zorrilla, 3, Madrid. Spain.
Frits Gierstberg
Frits Gierstberg (Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1959) studied art history at the University of Leiden and specialized in contemporary art, architecture, film and photography. He was an extraordinary professor of photography at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 2006 to 2010, where he taught theory of documentary photography in the Department of Media and Journalism.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and a curator at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, both in Rotterdam. He is coauthor of The Dutch Photobook (Aperture), among other publications. In 2013 he was the guest curator of the XIII Gjon Mili Exhibition at the Kosova National Art Gallery in Pristina.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and a curator at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, both in Rotterdam. He is coauthor of The Dutch Photobook (Aperture), among other publications. In 2013 he was the guest curator of the XIII Gjon Mili Exhibition at the Kosova National Art Gallery in Pristina.
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