On Monday, October 5 was inaugurated at the high school Mayor Belagua the exhibition photographic exhibition on architecture by Antxon Hernández was inaugurated on Monday, October 5th. This consists of 33 images in which the artist from Guipuzcoa synthesizes a long career dedicated to architectural photography and which inaugurate the first of the exhibitions that the Gothic Gate -the conference room of exhibitions of Belagua- has planned for this course that has just started.

The inauguration was attended by group of students and professors, many of them from the University of Navarra. School of Architecture University of Navarra. Hernández was accompanied by Rubén Alcolea, professor of Projects at the school, and by Héctor Devesa, director of the Belagua. high school Mayor Belagua. Alcolea himself highlighted the architectural character of the exhibition. "It is neither banal nor casual that the images show stairs, one of the most representative pieces of architecture," he pointed out. "Stairs are the element that separates constructions from animals: they allow man to separate himself from the ground and colonize space and contemplate it." He also invited everyone to contemplate "carefully and passionately" Hernández's work.

For his part, Devesa emphasized the double character of educational of the sample. "On the one hand it is a exhibition of photography, as an expression of art and beauty. But it is also a exhibition of architectural photography, which will undoubtedly be of great interest to everyone, but especially to students and architects who want to come to Belagua".

The artist himself acknowledged that it is difficult for a photographer to talk about his own work because it is the way he has to express what he wants to say, without the noise of words. And he thanked the dedication and passion that, as in his case, the students of high school put into bringing contemporary art to the university community and the city of Pamplona.

Freelance for 4 years

Antxon Hernández was born in San Sebastián in 1958. He studied at the CEI in Barcelona and at Parsons School of Design in New York, where he worked as a freelance for 4 years. publishing house Upon his return to Spain, he combined his advertising work with work , mainly between Madrid and San Sebastian. As a result of his work he has had relationships with artists and architects of the stature of Richard Serra, Oteiza, Miquel Barceló, Moneo and Saenz de Oiza, among many others. He has also collaborated with numerous agencies of advertising and specialized magazines.

Antxon Hernandez's exhibition can be visited, free of charge, at the high school Mayor Belagua from Monday to Saturday, from 12.00 to 14.00 and from 19.00 to 20.00, from October 5th to November 13th.