Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez
04/03/2018.
[Madrid] Spain, 21.02>04.2018
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Observer, behind the lens of his camera, in black and white, Ricardo Jiménez freezes the urban scenes of his hometown in Venezuela.
Caracas, 1982. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
The colonel has someone to listen to him. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
Chance guarded. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
Sea is white. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
Caracas, 1983. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
Caracas, 1990. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
A magical and mysterious tour. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
There are no more heroes. Photos from the car by Ricardo Jiménez. Photograph © Ricardo Jiménez
La Fábrica exposes the work of one of the most prominent photographers of the contemporary Venezuelan scene, Ricardo Jiménez.
Through his nightly images, taken from his car, Jiménez offers us a privileged perspective on the city of Caracas and its inhabitants.
Through his nightly images, taken from his car, Jiménez offers us a privileged perspective on the city of Caracas and its inhabitants.
Description of project by La Fábrica
Ricardo Jiménez (Caracas, 1951) looks at the city of Caracas from the privileged position granted by being on board a car. Pedestrians, landscapes, characters of the city are captured by the gaze of this photographer, faithful heir of the rolling images of figures such as Walker Evans or Robert Frank.
La Fábrica exhibits for the first time in Spain the work of the Venezuelan photographer in the show Photos from the car, composed of 24 photographs that were also included in the number of the PhotoBolsillo collection, published last December.
The exhibition is a visual journey that relates his search for those fleeting moments that surprise him.
At the opening will be present the researcher Horacio Fernández and the curator Vasco Szinetar, director of the Urban Photography Archive, a Venezuelan foundation dedicated to saving the country's photographic memory.
Ricardo Jiménez is a walker, one more of the prolific tradition of mobile photographers. Jiménez uses the car as a mobile observatory from which to record silhouettes and backlights.
The black and white images of Ricardo Jiménez refer to dreams and the night, two of his main themes. His photographs are the record of a lonely traveler surprised by the urban, fascinated with the poetic that come to have seemingly banal situations.
The city that Ricardo Jiménez shows us is the one that can be seen from the car and as the poet Igor Barreto, a collaborator of Ricardo Jiménez points out, are:
"photographs where the characters transmit attention to themselves and the things that surround them: they communicate peace and balance in their relationships and, what is more interesting, they are or seem to be silent".
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Dates
from February 21th to April, 2018. Schedule.- from Monday to Saturday 11 – 21h; Sunday 11 to 17 h.
Venue
La Fábrica, Calle Alameda 9, 28014 Madrid. Spain
Curators
Vasco Szinetar, principal of Archivo Fotografía Urbana.
Director La Fábrica
Alberto Anaut
Organized by
PHotoBolsillo / La Fábrica
Ricardo Jiménez
Born in Caracas in 1951, Jiménez began to have contact with photography in the mid-70s. He trained as a photographer at the Frías de Caracas School, the Neumann Design Institute, Sir John Cass School of Art and the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, among other centers.
In 1978 he completed his first series, Inscapes, which shows urban interior landscapes. A year later he exhibited his first photographs with the Group Encounters at the Gallerie Manchester.
In 1982, she participated in the collective exhibition Los Venezolanos, curated by María Teresa Boulton and Paolo Gasparini at the Photographer's Gallery in London. And two years later his work is part of the collective exhibition 49 years of artistic photography in Venezuela, at the São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil, organized by Boulton. In 1985 he made his first solo exhibition and that same year he received the Luis Felipe Toro Photography Prize.
From that moment he combines advertising and editorial photography with collective and individual exhibitions.
He collaborates with magazines such as Manager of Venezuela, Horizontes de Avensa, Complot, Ocean Drive, Espacio, architectural magazine and Global Finance of New York, among others.
His photographs are part of the Banco Mercantil collections (Caracas); Ignacio and Valentina Oberto (Caracas); National Library Autonomous Institute (Caracas); Stanislas and Leticia Poniatowski (Bogotá), Alexis Fabry (Paris) and Archivo Fotografía Urbana (Caracas).
In 1978 he completed his first series, Inscapes, which shows urban interior landscapes. A year later he exhibited his first photographs with the Group Encounters at the Gallerie Manchester.
In 1982, she participated in the collective exhibition Los Venezolanos, curated by María Teresa Boulton and Paolo Gasparini at the Photographer's Gallery in London. And two years later his work is part of the collective exhibition 49 years of artistic photography in Venezuela, at the São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil, organized by Boulton. In 1985 he made his first solo exhibition and that same year he received the Luis Felipe Toro Photography Prize.
From that moment he combines advertising and editorial photography with collective and individual exhibitions.
He collaborates with magazines such as Manager of Venezuela, Horizontes de Avensa, Complot, Ocean Drive, Espacio, architectural magazine and Global Finance of New York, among others.
His photographs are part of the Banco Mercantil collections (Caracas); Ignacio and Valentina Oberto (Caracas); National Library Autonomous Institute (Caracas); Stanislas and Leticia Poniatowski (Bogotá), Alexis Fabry (Paris) and Archivo Fotografía Urbana (Caracas).
