Photographer Manolo Laguillo has presented his work "Las provincias 2014-2015" as part of the program Tender Puentes del Museo. Winner of the Comunidad de Madrid Award at the last SUMMA contemporary art fair and professor at the University of Barcelona, Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953) is the latest addition to the list of the 16 authors who are part of the project Tender Puentes.

Zamora, Palencia, Soria, Teruel, Segovia, Cáceres, Ciudad Real and Jaén are the 8 provincial capitals that are the protagonists of Manolo Laguillo's work. The 64 large-format diptychs (120cm. X 45 cm.) that make up his artistic project constitute an x-ray and an experiment on the limits of photography. These cities present very particular physical characteristics. They do not belong to the rich periphery of the country, nor to the center, and their role, with little growth over the last century, places them in the background. The transition with the countryside, an environment that these cities possess, resembles that which almost all cities in Spain had 100 years ago, when industrialization was practically non-existent. There is also still no solution of continuity between the dense urban core and the countryside. This physical characteristic is related to its size, which is sufficiently contained so that, without having to resort to the airplane, it is almost possible to take them in at a glance. Manolo Laguillo is grateful for the sponsorship of Hahnemühle.

Pierre Gonnord and Luis Gonzalez Palma, the following deliveries

Manolo Laguillo thus joins the list of 16 authors who have cast their gaze on the history of photography. Roland Fischer, Ángel Fuentes, Manuel Brazuelo, Lynne Cohen, Jordi Bernadó, Sergio Belinchón, Gabriele Basilico, Xavier Ribas, Jorge Ribalta, Carlos Cánovas, and national award winners María Bleda and José María Rosa, Joan Fontcuberta and Javier Vallhonrat, are some of the photographers who have participated in the program so far. Meanwhile, photographers Pierre Gonnord and Luis González Palma are in the final stages of production of their works.

The program brings together more than 400 works and 15 publications.

International distribution publications

As of today, the publications in this Collection are widely distributed in Spain, Europe, the United States and Latin America (Chile, Colombia and Mexico) through Trama Editorial .

In the words of Manuel Ortuño, its director, "for this type of books and catalogs, and even more so in the case of a university museum, the dissemination and circulation of these works and their projects among the academic and artistic community in Spain and beyond our borders is essential, and this is how Museo Universidad de Navarra has understood it, and for this reason important efforts are being made".

Specialized bookstores, museums and the most important libraries around the world will be able to disseminate this program of artistic and editorial creation. They can also be purchased online on the Museo Universidad de Navarra website (museo.unav.edu) and on the Amazon portal in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The price is 12,5€/unit.

Tender Puentes is a curatorial project promoted by the Museum since 2002, curated by Santiago Olmo and Rafael Levenfeld. It aims to establish a dialogue between contemporary artists and primitive ones, since the Museum's Collection traces the history of photography in Spain, from its origins (the first dates from 1848) to the present day, focusing on photography from its documentary aspect in relation to the real and the imaginary.