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This afternoon, the exhibition 'Ana Torralva' is inaugurated in the Regional Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena (Muram), under the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment.
Theory and Game of the Goblin ', consisting of a total of 65 black and white photographs that compose a broad retrospective of images related to the world of flamenco.
The director general of Cultural Heritage, Juan Antonio Lorca, presented with the Granada photographer, closely related to the port city, this sample that has had the collaboration of Cajamurcia.
"Torralva shows his talent as a portrait painter, as well as his ability to capture, in static images, the whole movement, art and, ultimately, the flamenco 'duende' and all his poetic load," Lorca said.
The joy, grief, strength, elegance and sensuality of cante, dance and the flamenco touch are reflected in the photographs of Torralva, who not only sets his objective on the body or face of the portraits, but also on His hands and feet, 'freezing' gestures, palms and heels.
For the sample of the Muram has been a thorough selection of works and, according to Lorca, "some of them are shown to the public for the first time."
The retrospective, he added, "includes images made since 1985, as a sequence of Camarón, to the most current, and collects portraits of renowned artists such as Paco de Lucia, Enrique Morente, Estrella Morente, El Cigala, Carmen Linares, Remedios Amaya, Farruquito , Alba Heredia and María Pagés, among many others ".
To make his snapshots Torralva visits the home or the rehearsal places, where the artists perform performances before the camera in which a game of complicity is established that the images exposed now in the Muram transmit, penetrating into the inner world of the creators and Shaping his personality.
In the exhibition, as an epilogue, there are landscapes of the Sierra Minera de La Unión-Cartagena, of artists such as the singer Pencho Cros, the cartagenero Francisco Contreras 'El Bongui' or of flamenco sagas like the Piñana or the Fernandez, memory and Present of the International Festival of the Cante of the Mines of the Union.
Also, you can see two videos: 'The encounter with the Fernandez family' and 'Belén Maya.
The feminine in the dance '.
Juan Antonio Lorca highlighted "the growing interest in the discipline of photography that is demonstrated in the exhibitions of regional museums, especially the Muram, a center that has significantly expanded the number of activities and continues to increase visitor numbers , Since in the first half of 2017 they have increased more than 30 percent, surpassing 17,000 people. "
In 'Ana Torralva.
Theory and game of the duende ', the photograph also joins, according to the director general, "one of the great arts and identity of our country, flamenco, recognized as a World Heritage Site by Unesco and very present in Our Region through festivals of great importance as the Cante of the Mines of La Unión or el and Lo Ferro ".
The exhibition will be open until November 5, from Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
On Saturdays, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and on Sundays and public holidays, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Trajectory
Ana Torralva, Gaditana by birth and cartagenera of adoption (lived several years in the port city, where her family lives, and spends her time in the Region), graduated in Fine Arts in Valencia and Madrid and specialized in art and photography.
She began as a photographer in the newspaper El País, where she worked between 1983 and 1995, first from Valencia and later from Madrid, and also published in El País Semanal and Babelia.
She has shown her photographs in numerous cinemas in Spain and other countries in Europe, as well as in America, and has established herself as one of the most well-known Spanish portraitists.
Source: CARM
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