SKINS. Photo Exhibition of Juan Muguruza
Belpart organized SKINS, first art exhibition of the photographer Basque Juan Muguruza. The exhibition opened at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid 28 March 2012. Was attended by the President of the Community of Madrid Doña Esperanza Aguirre and the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Gonzalo Nieto.
The exhibition remained in Madrid 28 March to 20 May then continue its tour to Valencia in the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia 28 June to 16 September and Barcelona in 2013.
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This is the first example of this artist whose career has developed in the world of advertising with photography as the main field of expression. With it aims to highlight, through this series of works, the results of their latest research and concerns being expressive nature channel that pours its concern and curiosity about the environment in which we live every day. Exposure content is embodied in a total of 40 pictures in which the artist is reeling ideas and suggest reasons pointing an approach to the varied and infinite world of vegetation, and in particular of trees, focusing on a single detail, the epidermis of the. In this manner, in Skins, Juan Muguruza proposes a visual tour of the area of the varied textures vegetables that are sometimes rough, velvety or simply other porous, in which an extensive palette of shades that cover all varieties of greens and ochres unimaginable areas have brought hundreds of shades, lead the viewer to move through a surprising way in an enchanted forest, but absolutely real.
Juan Muguruza, with this group of works, focuses his gaze on the bark of trees, hence the name Skins exposure. The artist's view expands on an approach to radiate increased, together with the chromatic contrast mere, whole palette of emotions epidermal playing with the concept and its inherent qualities and attributes. In each of the images of this sample suggesting physical and metaphysical functions of the skin makes sense and adds nuance to multiple tasks assigned to it from the protection function, feelings and transmission communication between the interior and exterior.
The artist, in this his first encounter with the exhibition experience, he shows in his works proposed route, how its bark in plants can absorb nutrition elements for survival and how this species, as in the rest of life on Earth, reflected the mystery of the life cycle where the time coordinate is the determinant of a process in which the natural evolution meets, inexorable, showing the growth stages of, regeneration, and aging, according to the different moments that capture the works.
The sample was developed in the field of exceptional RBG (CSIC), an institution that promotes knowledge, care, conservation and enjoyment of plants and fungi and their natural environment. A goal that achieved by scientific research, the collection and exhibition of diverse botanical specimens and development of educational and outreach programs. www.rjb.csic.es. This quarantine of large format photographs that make up this exhibition Juan Muguruza had as regards the natural environment of their own habitat, as they are integrated into what is their generic universe to be located on the promenade of Carlos III's Royal Botanic Gardens, CSIC, central avenue of the institution that houses the sample, under trees and surrounded by greenery, allowing clearly reaches dialogue between the work and its origin.
After passing by the Royal Botanic JRDIN Madrid the exhibition was installed in the Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia where he stayed from 28 June to 16 September 2012. www.uv.es/jardibotanic
