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Interactions. Javier Vallhonrat

Name: Interacciones. Javier Vallhonrat
Start: 2015-05-13T10:00
End: 2015-05-13T20:00
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WORKSHOPSWITH JAVIER VALLHONRAT

Workshop in the Maladeta	Workshop for the generation of photographic projects

Date: September 4 to 6	Date: September 11 to 13
Location: Maladeta Massif, Pyrenees of Huesca	Venue: Museo Universidad de Navarra
Workshop to be held at the starting point of the project. Interactions by Javier Vallhonrat.	The workshop approaches creativity as a set of skills and processes that we deploy through artistic exploration, experimentation and action.
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The Museo Universidad de Navarra is presenting a new exhibition that occupies the six rooms on floor -1 with 1,200 m2 of exhibition floor. Interactions, 2011-2015, constitutes the most recent body of work by artist Javier Vallhonrat. This exhibition brings together a total of 52 photographic works, seven videos and a video installation, structured in five different parts: 42ºN - Standard drift - Register of the margin - Limit friction - Eolionymy.
Interactions has been developed in high mountain and extreme weather environments. The artist has worked in these environments creating images where uncertainty and unpredictability confront the human need for control and predictability. This project is understood as an exploration of the mountain experience, the fragility of man in the face of nature and extreme conditions, but also as a questioning of different modes of representation of the landscape.
The experience of the slow passage of time and the uncertain space of the high mountain occur in conditions that foster a state of vulnerability. In these circumstances, the perception of the ecological and geoclimatic niche of the high mountain, alien and threatening, is gradually transformed into a perception of an equally vulnerable place where knowledge and immediate experience can dialogue in the face of conditions of uncertainty.
The origin of Interacciones is the participation of Javier Vallhonrat in the project Tender Puentesproject, promoted by the Museum since 2002 by the Museum to create contemporary work taking as a starting point the historical pieces preserved in the Museum. For this project, the photographer focuses all his attention on two photographs of the Maladeta massif, in the Pyrenees of Huesca, taken by Viscount Joseph Vigier after ascending from Luchon to the Portillón de Benasque at an altitude of 2440 meters in the summer of 1853. Vigier's images are the starting point for a dialogue with one of the first photographers to confront the mountain from a direct experience. This work is the result of 42ºN aone of the parts that are part of Interactions.

IMAGES OF INTERACTIONS (2011-2015)

The artist: Javier Vallhonrat

Born in Madrid in 1953, with a degree in Fine Arts and Psychology and a Master in Integrative Humanistic Psychotherapy and Gestalt Psychotherapist, Javier Vallhonrat is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist who is also currently researching and teaching courses and seminars on the processes of artistic creation in various universities and institutions.

Among his main individual exhibitions are those of the Taidemuseum of Porin, Finland, France, the Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, the National Center of Photography, Paris, the Telefonica Foundation and Canal de Isabel II, Madrid. Among the group exhibitions, highlights include those of the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 1988; the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in 1991; the Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, in 1992; the Cartier Foundation, Cahors, France, in 1994; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, in 1996; the Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, in 2001; and the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, in 2006. His work is present in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Banco de España Collection (Madrid), the Maison Européene de la Photo (Paris), The Marsh Collection (London), International Polaroid Collection (Boston), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia) and Musée d'Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean of Luxembourg, (Luxembourg).

Javier Vallhonrat's work has been distinguished with numerous awards such as the National Photography Award 1995 from the Ministry of Culture, the Award of Excellence from the Society of Newspaper Design, USA, the Silver Award of New York Times Magazine, USA, 1994, the Art Directors Club 76th Annual Awards, USA, the Bartolomé Ros PhotoEspaña Award 2007, and the Comunidad de Madrid Photography Award 2009.

Published news:

El País: http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/05/13/actualidad/1431529606_636771.html.