The MUN exhibits Rafael Levenfeld's unpublished artistic bequest
The MUN opens this afternoon a sample with the most outstanding photographic work of its former artistic director
FotoManuelCastells/The curators of the exhibition, Ignacio Miguéliz (left) and Valentín Vallhonrat (right) with the director of the MUN, Jaime García del Barrio.
The University of Navarra Museum opens today, Wednesday 9, the exhibition "Rafael Levenfeld. Fotógrafo"(Rafael Levenfeld.Photographer), which includes previously unexhibited work by the artist who was his artistic director . A masterclass with Valentín Vallhonrat (curator of the sample together with Ignacio Miguéliz) and photography expert Santiago Olmo will take place at 7 p.m., followed by the opening of the conference room Torre. The capacity of the masterclass is full.
MUN's director , Jaime García del Barrio, recalled his "polyhedral" figure for the multiple roles he played in the world of photography: in 1980, he founded the magazine PhotoVision together with Joan Fontcuberta, Ignacio González and Adolfo Martínez; he also curated numerous exhibitions for institutions such as Fundación "la Caixa", the Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya (of which he was advisor), Fundación Telefónica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Museo Universidad de Navarra, of which he was artistic director until his death; without forgetting his own artistic production.
Rafael Levenfeld (1955 - 2023) began his first photographic series in 1976. Valentín Vallhonrat has highlighted the efforts of both Levenfeld and his generation to give photography a place and an understanding that it lacked at the time, outside of areas such as competitions, groups or the university world, as well as his "fierce commitment" to the artistic space.
His works credited him as one of the young people who played a leading role in the renewal of photographic languages in Spain. Vallhonrat highlighted the originality of his works, capable, for example, of transforming "apparently anodyne" spaces, as heir to a tradition of surrealism that endows places with "an ironic point" through the singular appearance of his own figure.
Deeply knowledgeable about the production processes of photography, Levenfeld included photographic intervention in some of his creations, first guide: through painting techniques, illustration or the employment of chemicals; and, later, incorporating the possibilities offered by digital media, which allowed him to experiment with works composed of multiple wefts or layers, playing with different fabrics, Materials (such as glass or soap) and textures, resulting in the creation of new worlds and spaces, to, as Vallhonrat has pointed out, "make fiction".
In short, the sample presents an "unpublishedwork of great quality and originality", said the curator, which makes this a exhibition "to enjoy and see the details in which great wisdom is hidden".
