Portal de Cartagena
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On Thursday, July 18, the exhibition 'Under the Sign of the Moon' by the Portuguese Valter Vinagre opens to the public in the Byzantine Wall hall.
Until September 30, visitors to the exhibition will have access to a territory occupied by a tribe immersed in a collective party.
The artist here makes a spontaneous 14-year ethnographic observation summarized in 36 photographs.
The delegate councilor of Culture of Cartagena, Carlos Piñana, has presented the exhibition and visited it with the author of it, Valter Vinagre.
The curators of the exhibition, which is part of La Mar de Arte, are the Portuguese Rui Prata and the Spanish Paco Salinas.
The Raiano Cultural Center in Idanha-a-Nova collaborates and the project has the support of the UNESCO Territory Program.
Piñana, has recommended the visit to this exhibition, noting that the purpose of the same "of great draft" and "extraordinary" is "that the public, when looking at the picture, reflect on the impact that may have the images" .
The exhibition is the result of the work of 14 years of research and documentation on a festival held every two years in the Portuguese town of Idanha-a-Nova.
The author of this collection of images, Valter Vinagre, said that the idea that led him to do it is "the way to be in freedom and in contact with nature" of the attendees at the event.
This, he continued, contrasts with "the loss of the soul" in a context of "technology, with more and more going to the cities and less to the countryside".
According to the Portuguese photographer, despite the passage of time, "everything remains the same" in this music festival that takes place every two years in Idanha-a-Nova.
Regarding the profile of the artist, the curator of the exhibition Rui Prata stressed that Valter Vinagre is "one of the most consistent photographers in photographic documentarism.
His projects are from years of visual investigation. "
The other curator of the show, Paco Salinas, has remarked, on the other hand, the fact that in 'Under the sign of the moon', the images do not have a caption.
"Here what you see you have to interpret, that seems to me a singularity of the exhibition, which is a direct sensation between what the photographer collected and yourself".
When contemplating the photos of the exhibition, the viewer's gaze is framed in respect to the participants in the festival.
Vinagre shows in your photographs what you see clearly without hiding anything.
The event in this area of ​​Portugal poses, according to experts, a new way of observing the world and interacting with it.
With this exhibition, the photographer Valter Vinagre challenges the viewer to train his look, his respect towards the object portrayed and to reflect on the scope of the photographs in the current world.
The visiting hours will be from 10 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm from Tuesday to Friday and on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Avelãs de Caminho (Anadia, Portugal) in 1954, Valter Vinagre studied photography at AR.CO (Center of Art and Visual Communication, Lisbon) between 1986-1989 and began his career as a photographer at the end of the 80s of the 20th century , making individual exhibitions and participating in collective exhibitions and initiatives.
Starting with a photograph close to the documentary record, his work went on to internalize a more reflective exercise on the image, creating discourses on the meanings associated with the landscape, the journey and the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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