Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (26.10.10-16.01.11) & Galería Jorge Mara-La Ruche
Exphibition by Horacio Coppola curated by por Jorge Mara
- About a million visitors a year, 70% privately financed with «cultural» acts and the remaining 30% comes from the consortium formed by the Community and the City of Madrid. Have they achieved the desired self-financing? I do not see financial data being publicly available but surely it must be «solid, reliable and stable» as others I know. While I watch the exhibition, others celebrate the “ñ” festival. Let’s see if the RAE ventures to nicely abolish a symbol with such a status. Horacio Coppola’s photographs show a time of economic recession, rampant inflation (30% in today’s Argentina) and rising Nazism. We are not so far away. The exhibition also includes films, but the quality is not optimal, the pictures are painful to the eyes. However, the documentary value is there. Seeing «A Sunday in Hampstead Heath, you realise that nothing has changed. This is a journey to a not very remote world: Europe (Berlin, Paris, Budapest, London) and Brazil in the 30’s for those that did not have a chance to see the more complete exhibition at the Telefónica’s foundation curated by Jorge Schwartz (2008).www.circulobellasartes.com Alcalá, 42 Madrid 28014
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