20170305_MUN_ExpoCarlosCanovasInauguration

The Museum has inaugurated the exhibition "In Time" by Carlos Cánovas, which will be open to the public in Pamplona until October 1.which will be open to the public in Pamplona until October 1. Subsequently, thanks to the ICO Foundation's partnership , it will also be on view at the ICO Museum in Madrid, from June to September 2018.

Curated by Juana Arlegui, sample is a selection of 130 photographs, more than half of them unpublished, printed in large format, representing the photographic work of Cánovas around the urban landscape, a line of work maintained over time by the author, from the 80s to the present. "Exhibiting a large part of my file here, in a museum of eminently photographic origin like few others, has been a great challenge for me and also an honor", Carlos Cánovas, who is interested in the spaces where nature and the city converge, to create images with a strong poetic and aesthetic dimension, wanted to thank at the beginning of his presentation .

The Museum's director , Jaime García del Barrio, wanted to highlight that the author has been linked to this museum since before his birth. "He started his project Séptimo Cielo, more than ten years ago, within our artistic production program called Tender Bridges. That series has had a long development that extends to the present and is somehow also the origin of this exhibition "In Time" that we present today."

Likewise, Jaime García del Barrio explained that there are many authors who point to Cánovas as a slow-paced walking artist. A wandering observer on the frontier of the urban, of the human activity that shapes our post-industrial landscape. His photographs are poetic monuments built at intermediate moments that precede or recall great social and industrial changes that leave traces in the space we inhabit. His exploration has had as a scenario the blast furnaces, the estuary of Bilbao or the industrial landscape of the Vallés de Barcelona, but also environments that are very close to us. Since the 80's he has dedicated his attention to Pamplona in particular. His latest work, Séptimo cielo, takes place entirely in Cizur Menor, a town on the outskirts of the city, where he has left testimony of his documentary poetics.

The sample presents the work chronologically and distributed in six series.The series called "Paisajes sin retorno" on the Bilbao estuary in 1993 and 1994 has been recognized as a work of reference letter on Spanish urban landscaping and has become "testimony of a city that had decided to change, abandoning heavy industry to turn to the cultural, with all that this implies in the landscape" said Cánovas. "The images of Bilbao project a certain nostalgia for the imminent disappearance of landscapes and human activities. In fact, I took photographs during the last two days of activity of the blast furnaces," he stressed.

For his part, the president of the Fundación ICO, Pablo Zalba, highlighted the importance of the protocol de partnership signed with the Museum: "this protocol strengthens what has been a constant line of work of the Fundación ICO in its almost 25 years of existence: that of establishing partnership agreements with other institutions, both public and private, that pursue the same goals. issue We are convinced that this is the only way to make the most efficient use of our resources, to be more ambitious and to reach a greater number of beneficiaries". The agreement signed will make it possible to show next year at the ICO Museum the exhibition inaugurated today. Pablo Zalba pointed out that "we could not fail to bring the work of Carlos Cánovas to the ICO Museum, as with it we will complete the cycle of photographers who have best reflected the periphery of the Spanish urban landscape in their work ".

Carlos Canovas

Carlos Cánovas began his photographic activity in 1972. Until 1980 he won numerous awards and distinctions in photography salons and, from that year, he began to develop his work staff and to exercise an activity B professor , giving workshops and specialized courses in various centers and universities, both of technical nature and history of photography, as well as in relation to his own work, about which he has published several books. His work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, such as those held at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao) or the high school Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM, Valencia), and group exhibitions, including those held at the high school Cervantes in various countries, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) or at the high school Cultural de México (Washington).