Exhibition "Construct: The construction of the female body" and "In prisons and abstractions" (Mexico)
The Photographic Center Manuel Alvarez Bravo invited to exhibitions "Construct: The construction of the female body" and "In prisons and abstractions" by Adriana Calatayud and Agustin Jimenez.
Adriana Calatayud Moran * (1967, Mexico City) degree in graphic communications at the Ecole Nationale des Arts de la UNAM (National University of Mexico). From 1996 to 2001 he worked at the Taller de Gráfica Digital Media Center at the CNA (National Center for the Arts) conducting and supporting research projects and image manipulation. From 2004 to 2005 he worked to coordinate the research area of technology and image and video projects in the Sky Room of the Centro de la Imagen, CNA. Today is the fellowship of the National System of Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) 2005-2008. In 2003, was supported by the Development Program for Cultural Projects and ventures in the same institution. It won twice in 1996 and 2000, the scholarship awarded by the Young Creators FONCA and scholarship in 1999 was to make a Residence Arts in Banff Center for the Arts, Mexico and Canada. In 1996 he won the Prix Acquisition in the Second Chamber of Photography in Guadalajara, Mexico; in 1997 Honorable Mention in the VIII Biennial of Photography in 1998 and Honorable Mention in the XVII Encuentro de Arte Joven both in Mexico.
Ente their individual exhibitions in Mexico and abroad are: in 2003 PROTOTYPES 2.1 Anthropometry cyborg, presented at the Black Box of University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA-UNAM), the Media Center of the ANC in Mexico and the Institute of Mexico in Paris, France. During the 2002 Photo Spain, at the Institute of Mexico in Madrid, Spain, curated by Alejandro Castellote. In 2001, Natura. Relative space, presented in Mexico City and Oaxaca. In 1998, The Illustrated Man, at the National Museum of Modern Art curated by Rossin Cazali and in the Gallery of Contemporary Art of Beli Vico in Guatemala. In 1997 presented unfolding in Mexico and Cuba.
His work is part of collections such as the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA-UNAM) Mexico, Beli Gallery of Contemporary Art Vico, Guatemala, Centro de Arte Moderno de Guadalajara and the Museum of Panswowe Majdanku, Poland.
Agustin Jimenez ** (1901 - 1974) study at the School of Graphic Arts Jose Maria Chavez. He learned photography with the brothers Carlos and Agustin Munan. In 1919 he joined the National School of Fine Arts, of which he was appointed photographer in 1925.
His photographs have illustrated magazines: Shape (1926) directed by Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma; Mexican Life (1931); yearbook photography Modern in London (1931-32); Our Mexico (1932); Future (1933) directed by Vicente Lombardo Toledano, among other publications. Fotoensayos also conducted for the Journal of Humor (1931).
Among his group exhibitions include: Guillermo Toussaint and eleven photographers Mexican (Mexican Art Gallery, 1929); in the Field of Civil Aviation (together with the "modernist" Emilio North American currency, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Luis Marquez Romay, 1931), Junior League, New York (along with Edward Weston, 1931). His solo exhibitions include: the School of Fine Arts (1930); Room art of SEP (1931) and in the Delphic Studios, New York (1931).
Performs still photography for feature films: The compadre Mendoza (Fernando de Fuentes, 1933), The Phantom of the convent (Fernando de Fuentes, 1934); Ramon Gold and Silver Pawn, 1934); Scandal (Chano Urueta, 1934), Monja, married, virgin and martyr (Bustillo Oro, 1935). As a cameraman involved in: Two monks (Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934); HumanidadTaxco and Tehuantepec (Roberto Montenegro, 1935); The mystery of her face pale (Bustillo Oro, 1935); Land of fishermen and Uruapan (Pezet Brothers, 1935); The stain of blood Adolfo Best Maugard, 1937); Caminos yesterday (Quirico Michelena, 1938); The aunt of the girls (Bustillo Oro, 1938). (Adolfo Best Maugard, 1934);
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