Photo exhibition opens "Dust in love" by David Bailey
Under the title "Dust in love," which alludes to a poem by Francisco de Quevedo in which love is constant after the death last night inaugurated the photographic exhibition of David Bailey British Hilario Galguera gallery in this town remain until February 20 next year.
In an interview with Reuters, Hilario Galguera, director of the gallery, said that "Bailey is an exquisite sense of photographic art. The images are clear, this is what the end of time we arrive at the death, dust and become more human passion continues. "
He said that the title of the exhibition refers to the issue of (Francisco de) Quevedo dust and love, a human condition, and also the treatment that is similar in Mexico regarding the death. "
For his part, European photographer, author of the images on display, he noted that much identifies with the Latin American folklore and is therefore trying to do a celebratory phenomenon as observed in this latitude as death.
Some of the verses of "Love continued beyond death," poem by Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) reads: "Soul of a God who has been imprisoned, veins fire humor both have, that gloriously Médulas burn, your body will cease, do not care, will be ash, but will make sense; powder will be more dust in love. "
The exhibition, which displays the most recent work of David Bailey, but includes two photographs taken in 1970 and another one in 1984, consists of nine images of portraits and sculptures.
These are forms, ranging from a human skull with the appearance of exhumation, entitled "Skulls" (2007), to head bleeding Christ suffering on the cross (Christ with eyes closed, "2007 and" Christ with eyes open, "2007 ).
Also shown is the image named "Christian" in 1984, featuring a woman's head and eyes without retinal expression of death as well as the portrait of a woman with hair in the shape of the famous mouse ears of Walt Disney entitled "Tre Penelope Aka Mickey Mouse" (1970).
Finally, in two paintings are more flowers in various colors, and in another with a butterfly made, apparently, of a thick material, entitled "Flowers in water" (2003) and Bailey 's Butterflies "(2007). The techniques used are printing digital cromógenea platinum and mounted on aluminum.
These images evoke a living figure or ever had, who can become good, being human, in a sense of love, passion, joy and friendship that will never die.
That's part of human nature and philosophy, the collective unconscious, that is the core of human thought as it is the continuity of life and love beyond death.
David Bailey was born in London in 1938 and is one of the legendary fashion photographers, as noted by submitting your resume. He began his career in the mid-60s, after working with artists of the lens as John French and John Parsons, called inventors of contemporary glamor.
He has worked in Vogue magazine in English, American and Italian, as well as who and Glamor. It is also a film director with tapes as "Beaton and Bailey" (1971), "Andy Warhol" (1973), "The Intruder" (1999) and "Who Dealt" (1993).
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