The museum inaugurates the work that the Canadian artist Lynne Cohen made for the program "Tender Bridges".
- "Almas Gemelas" is a monographic exhibition that sample for the first time the photographs that Lynne Cohen took in some buildings in Pamplona and its surroundings, such as the Parliament of Navarra, the Congress Palace and Auditorium of Navarra, the Fitero Spa and the University of Navarra, among others.
The Museum has inaugurated "Twin Souls", a monographicexhibition of the work that the Canadian artist Lynne Cohen (Wisconsin, United States, 1944 - Montreal, Canada, 2014) made in 2008 for the program "Tender Bridges". This is the first time that the 11 large-format images that Cohen photographed in some spaces in and around Pamplona, such as the University of Navarra, the Parliament, the Baluarte and the Fitero spa, among others, will be shown to the public. The inauguration opens the congress International Inter ≈ photography and architecturewhich establishes an academic reflection between these two media and co-organized by the Museum, the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra (ETSAUN) and the project Photography and Modern Architecture in Spain (FAME).
Lynne Cohen visited the University of Navarra in 2008 to participate in the artistic creation program "Tender Bridges," which proposes a dialogue between contemporary artists and others belonging to the Museum's Collection."The artist discovered many coincidences in the formal strategies of 19th century photographers and her own work, such as neutrality, flat lighting, the image without artifice and above all letting things speak for themselves, that is, letting the most banal objects speak. What she does of her own free will, the artists in our Collection did because of the technical needs of the time," explained one of the curators of the sample, Javier Ortiz-Echagüe.
The photographer was inspired by the work of artists belonging to the Collection such as Jean Laurent, Louis Leon Masson, Louis de Clercq, and other anonymous representatives of an anodyne and stereoscopic photography .
The sample, installed in the Museum Tower, consists of 11 large-format photographs, a video with the artist's words and two showcases with works from the Museum's Collection.
For the development of the exhibition, the Museum's curatorial team has had the support of Lynne Cohen's widower, Andrew Lugg. "She used to speak of her work as a partnership and was fortunate enough to find people in Pamplona and at the University who were happy to let her poke around in the enclosures they had at position. If she were still alive, she would make a point of emphasizing how much the opportunity to participate in the project and the Museum's photography collection meant to her," Lugg has emphasized in a text dedicated to his wife.
"Although there is this absence of the human, in reality, her work is full of human traces and she was a discoverer of traces and treasures," said Valentín Vallhonrat, from the Museum's Artistic Direction committee .
Lynne Cohen is a photographer recognized worldwide for herphotographic work work . Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous shows, including No Man's Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen at the National Gallery of Canada in 2002 and at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2003; Lynne Cohen: Cover, at Le Point du Jour in Cherbourgh-Octeville, France, in 2009; and Double Mixte, at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 1995. She also participated in the 2012 Biennale of Canada and the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. The artist received the award 2005 Governor General's Award in Visual and average Arts and the award Scotiabank Photography Award in 2011.