The XIX edition of the International Festival PhotoEspaña 2016 photography and visual arts dedicated this year his vision to photography in Europe, with several offices in several Spanish cities and 11 countries in Europe.
From 1 June to 28 August, 94 exhibitions were held with 330 artists from different countries of the world, it bears the slogan “Europes” and will focus on authors of the past and contemporaries they have been less present in previous editions of the event.
At a press conference, the director of PhotoEspaña 2016, María García Yelo, recalled that completes the European thematic editions of 2014 dedicated to the look of Spanish photography, and 2015 oriented to Latin America.
stressed that programming, mainly some of the individual and collective exhibitions in Madrid, show European developments in recent decades, but also the plurality of photography on the continent.
Among these exhibitions highlighted “Transitions. Ten years that transformed Europe “in the Fine Arts spanning 1979 with the rise of Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) to 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the Conde Duque Cultural Center presents the exhibition “At the gates of paradise. photo essay on the migrant, the homeless, the exiled, the refugee and stateless person “, and the Cibeles Center exhibition” Portrait photography in Europe since 1990 “.
Casa de America will present the exhibition “Und jetzt? (Now what?) “, The Cuban José A. Figueroa, on the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Also, “intimate Cartografías, an approach to interpersonal relations,” a selection of the Transatlantic section 2015 in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile.
The portfolio of Trasatlántica 2016 will reach Peru, Panama, and for the first time on the African continent will also be in Dakar, Senegal.
In its 2016 edition exposures extend the Madrid suburb of Alcala de Henares and Alcobendas, and Spanish cities of Segovia, Murcia, Lanzarote (Canary Islands) and Zaragoza.
The Community of Castilla-La Mancha joins with projects in Toledo, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara and Albacete this year to commemorate the fourth centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes.
The director of Festivals and Art Factory, Claude Bussac, presented the European section extending to 11 mainland cities: Bratislava (Slovakia), Chalon sur Saone, Paris (France ), Dublin (Ireland), Istanbul (Turkey), Helsinki (Finland), London (UK), Moscow (Russia), Riga (Latvia), Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Warsaw (Poland).
PhotoEspaña is organized by thirty-governmental organizations, cultural institutions, private companies, galleries and private collections in different cities, coordinated by the photography center Factory.
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