"La Movida. A chronicle of turmoil" has been inaugurated at the 50th edition of the Les Rencontres d'Arles 2019 festival. The exhibition organized by the Foto Colectania Foundation, features photographs by Alberto García-Alix, Ouka Leele, Pablo Pérez-Mínguez and Miguel Trillo. According to Foto Colectania's press...
Throughout history, museums have provided inspiration for artists who have gone to contemplate and study the works of their predecessors on display, sometimes to follow their teachings and occasionally to challenge them. In both cases, the dialogue between the artists of the past and the...
The exhibition The Asia Principle. China, Japan, India and Contemporary Art in Spain (1957-2017) aims to draw attention to the influence of these three cultures on art in the second half of the 20th century in Spain, an influence notably visible in the work of...
"Fierce Expressionism", a new exhibition of Alberto García-Alix, will be opening in Montevideo (Uruguay). The exhibition takes place, from November 23 (2017) to March 31 (2018), simultaneously in two spaces: Xippas Gallery and the Spanish Culture Center in Montevideo. Curated by Ricardo Ramón Jarne, this...
PHOTOESPAÑA GIVES ALBERTO GARCIA-ALIX CARTE BLANCHE TO ORGANICE 6 EXHIBITIONS The exaltation of being, A heterodox gaze By Alberto García-Alix To paraphrase Lorca and to explain myself I will state that the sublime has no angel, it has an elf. Disconnected from reason, it nests in the guts and...
Doctors of the World celebrates its 30th anniversary with the exhibition "Mise au poing", at the Topographie de l'Art in Paris (France), from February 10th to March 18th 2017. Contemporary photographers Henk Wildschut participate in it: Henk Wildschut (Netherlands), Cédric Gerbehaye (Belgium), from France Válerie...
The book consists of two parts: the first, in matte paper, gathers images from 1975 –including the first photograph that Alberto García-Alix took during a motocross race in which his brother was taking part– to 2007; the second part of the book, on glossy paper,...
Shadows of the Wind, is a specific project done by Alberto García-Alix for MUSAC that builds a bridge between pasta and present, following the thread of tow bodies of photographic work that he tackled during the eighties and nineties. Materialized in the books Bikers and Los malheridos, los...
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 The winner of the annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was announced on Monday 12 May 2014: Richard Mosse. Other photographers, who were shortlisted for this year’s prize, were: Alberto Garcia-Alix, Jochen Lempert and Lorna Simpson. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014 is...