José Ortiz Echagüe Exhibition Space
José Ortiz Echagüe
Collection Museo Universidad de Navarra
New exhibition space Jose Ortiz Echagüe
RENEWED EXHIBITION SPACE
FROM APRIL 2024
The Ortiz Echagüe exhibition space is renewed by two former students of the Master in Curatorial Studies, Agustina Marani and Andrea Ludeña. The selection of 28 works tells us about the photographer as a traveler who portrays places and anonymous people he dignifies with his camera. In addition, it is completed with a projection on the life and photographic procedure used by Ortiz Echagüe.
Photographs of the space
The result is a window to traditional worlds, and a way to peek into the soul of human beings through the eyes of the people photographed, with images taken both in North Africa(El Siroco del Sahara, 1965) and in Spain: Cerros de Calatayud 3 ( 1935) from the series "Castillos y Alcázares"; Molina de Aragón (1935), from the series "Pueblos y paisajes"; the portrait of the Monk of Guadalupe (n. d.), from the series "Pueblos y paisajes"; or the Chica de Ibiza (1930), from the series "Tipos y trajes".f.), from the series "Mystical Spain"; or the Girl from Ibiza (1930), from the series "Types and Costumes". Ortiz Echagüe captures a world that seems to be on the verge of disappearing: popular traditions that may never be celebrated again, religious festivities, typical costumes, landscapes, castles, fortresses, etc.
The exhibition also offers representative works of the technical procedure and intervention followed by the photographer: Basque rowing boat (1931) exemplifies the use of direct charcoal on Fresson paper, while Female Portrait ( 1906) or Rifian Boy ( 1910) show the use of scratches as a method to intervene the image.
JOSÉ ORTIZ ECHAGÜE
José Ortiz Echagüe (Guadalajara, 1886 - Madrid, 1980) was a Spanish military engineer, pilot and photographer. A very relevant figure in the history of photography in Spain, he has been internationally recognized as one of the best photographers. His dedication to photography was purely as an amateur and as a businessman he founded two large companies: Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. (C.A.S.A.) and later, the first Spanish automobile manufacturing industry, SEAT.
COLLECTION SHEET
Cristina de Middel
Project TENDER PUENTES
Aleatoris Vulgaris, inspired by the collection