Photographer Manolo Laguillo has made submission of his work "Las provincias 2014-2015", within the program Tender Puentes del Museo. award Comunidad de Madrid at the last SUMMA contemporary art fair and Full Professor of the University of Barcelona, Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953) is the latest addition to the list of the 16 authors who are part of the project Tender Bridges.

Zamora, Palencia, Soria, Teruel, Segovia, Cáceres, Ciudad Real and Jaén are the 8 provincial capitals that are the protagonists of Manolo Laguillo's work. The 64 large-format diptychs (120cm. X 45 cm.) that make up his artistic project are an X-ray and an experiment on the limits of photography. These cities present very particular physical characteristics. They do not belong to the rich periphery of the country, nor to the center, and their role, with little growth over the last century, places them in the background. The transition with the countryside, an environment that these cities possess, resembles that which almost all cities in Spain had 100 years ago, when industrialization was practically non-existent. There is also still no solution of continuity between the dense urban core and the countryside. This physical characteristic is related to its size, which is sufficiently contained so that, without having to resort to the airplane, it is almost possible to take them in at a glance. Manolo Laguillo thanks Hahnemühle's sponsorship .

Pierre Gonnord and Luis Gonzalez Palma, the following deliveries

Manolo Laguillo thus joins the list of 16 authors who have cast their gaze on the history of photography. Roland Fischer, Ángel Fuentes, Manuel Brazuelo, Lynne Cohen, Jordi Bernadó, Sergio Belinchón, Gabriele Basilico, Xavier Ribas, Jorge Ribalta, Carlos Cánovas, and national award winners María Bleda and José María Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta and Javier Vallhonrat, are some of the photographers who have participated in the program so far. Meanwhile, photographers Pierre Gonnord and Luis González Palma are in the final stages of production of their works.

The program brings together more than 400 works and 15 publications.

International distribution publications

The publications in this Collection are now widely distributed in Spain, Europe, the United States and Latin America (Chile, Colombia and Mexico) through Trama publishing house.

In the words of Manuel Ortuño, its director, "for this subject of books and catalogs, and even more so for a university museum, the dissemination and circulation of these works and its projects among the academic and artistic community in Spain and beyond our borders is essential, as the Museo Universidad de Navarra has understood, and for this reason important efforts are being made".

Specialized bookstores, museums and the most important libraries around the world will be able to disseminate this program of artistic creation and publishing house. They can also be purchased online at the University of Navarra Museum website (museo.unav.edu) and at portal Amazon in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The price is 12,5€/unit.

Tender Bridges is a curatorial project promoted by the Museum since 2002, curated by Santiago Olmo and Rafael Levenfeld. It aims to put contemporary artists in dialogue with the primitive ones, since the Museum's Collection traces the history of photography in Spain, from its origins (the first dates back to 1848) to the present day, focusing on photography from its documentary aspect in relation to the real and the imaginary.