2013. Isabel Muñoz - Galería Fernandez Braso

Isabel Muñoz

Eros y Ritos

The art gallery Fernández-Braso presents a selection of photographs by Isabel Muñoz (Barcelona, 1951) belonging to the past projects that have been developed, and which bears the title Eros and Rites. The exhibition will be opened next Tuesday, June 4, and will form part of the section off of galleries of PhotoEspaña 2013.

Attracted by the essentiality of being human and always ready to stir your soul in search of their fears and passions, Isabel Muñoz transports us to this exposure to The cities of la Paz, in Bolivia, and in Bombay, India, where he has worked for long periods of time during 2012 and 2013.

In the city of Peace was the theme of the ñatitas, which in the bolivian tradition refers to the cult of death and life in the worship of skulls. The devotees take care of the ñatitas in a prominent place in the house, and these are integrated among the members of the family by giving them supernatural protection.

Also in the city of Peace addressed the issue of myths, portraying female dancers pose with masks, indigenous pre-columbian and pieces of feather art. In the words of Arthur Arnalte -who has written one of the texts that are included in the digital catalog, hosted on the website of the gallery - this series of photographs is presided over by "the idea of religious syncretism, the search of the duality between gods and men."

The third project of the exhibition are the Hijras, that constitute the "third gender" – neither man nor woman. With its castration ritual, members of the hindu community acquired divine powers with which to bless in weddings and births.

Among the awards and honors given to Isabel Muñoz highlight the Culture Award 2006 of the Community of Madrid, Bartolomé Ros Prize for his entire career in PHotoEspaña 2009, the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 2009 and obtaining two-time World Press Photo Award, the National UNICEF Spain 2010 to Awareness-raising and Social Mobilization, and in 2012 the Award of the Fundación DEARTE.

A professional recognition also materialized by the presence of his work in various collections both national and international, among which should be noted, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Photo Collectania of Barcelona, Fundación Canal, Madrid, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Musée de Confluences , Lyon and Collection Baronne Ariane de Rothschild – Europe.

**The exhibition will close on the 14th of September.

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Biography

Isabel Muñoz, born in Barcelona in 1951 and based in Madrid since 1970, is a photographer who has managed to stand out in the diversity of proposals that characterize the landscape photography contemporary Spanish, betting on the technique of the platinotipia and by the large format with the aim of strengthening his speech: his passion for the body as a way of approach to the study of the human being.

A passion that has since its first series, Tango and Flamenco (1989), marks the beginning of a journey through many cultures, in which he seeks to capture with your camera the beauty of the human body, ranging from dances, and struggles to traditional up to certain realities and issues in which Muñoz decide to focus the look of establishing a social commitment.

His first exhibition Touches, held in October 1986 in the French Institute of Madrid, and his participation in the Month of Photography Paris in November 1990, marked deeply a before and after in his career to assume its launch national and international levels.

These exhibitions will be followed by many others, both individual and collective, along which Muñoz will be devoting as a great photographer of international importance.

This strong presence that Isabel Muñoz has been purchased within the reality of contemporary art is reflected in the recognition of their work through a variety of different prizes and awards among which stands out the Bartolomé Ros Prize for his entire career in PHotoEspaña 2009, the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts 2009 and obtaining two-time World Press Photo Award, the National UNICEF Spain 2010 to Awareness-raising and Social Mobilization, and in 2012 the Award of the Fundación DEARTE.

A professional recognition also materialized by the presence of his work in various collections both national and international, among which should be noted, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Photo Collectania of Barcelona, Fundación Canal, Madrid, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Rachel Temiño Sanfeliu

Solo exhibitions

1986	"Touches", Institut Français, Madrid, Spain.
1987	"America, America", A Cultural Association Hispanic American, Madrid, Spain.
1989	Gallery Spectrum, Zaragoza, Spain. "Encounters of the Photography. Villa de Leganés", Cultural Center of Leganés, Madrid, Spain.
1990	"Tango", Mois de la Photographie, Galerie Jean-Pierre Lambert, Paris, France. "Encounters of the Photography. Villa de Leganés", Cultural Center of Leganés, Madrid, Spain.
1991	"Tango", Université Lumière-Lyon 2, Lyon, France. "Tango", Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lyon, France. "Tango", Equisse Photographique, Lucigraphie, Strasbourg, France. "Tango", Bibliothèque-Discothèque Municipale d'argenteuil, Argenteuil, France. "Tango" Ex-convent of la Merced, Tarragona, Spain. "Tango", 4th Biennial of Photography of Córdoba, Posada del Potro, Cordoba, Spain.
1992	"Tango/Flamenco", 39 Salon of Photography, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijón, Asturias, Spain. "Flamenco", The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. "Tango", IV International Tango Festival, Cultural Centre, Great Captain, City of Granada, Granada, Spain.
1993	"Tango", Nouveau Théâtre d'angers, Angers, France. "Tango/Flamenco", Scène Nationale de Bayonne et du Sud Aquitaine, Space, Image, Bayonne, France. "Isabel Muñoz", École des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France. "Tango", Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. "Isabel Muñoz Photographs", The Former M. E. A. C., Madrid, Spain. "Flamenco", Banque Crédit Foncier, Paris, France.
1994	"Tango", Centro Cultural Kaleidoscope, Madrid, Spain. "Flamenco", Banque Crédit Foncier, Toulouse, France. "Tango", "Flamenco", "Eastern", Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA. "Les Discours Amoureux", Maison des Jeunes de Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland. "Flamenco", Banque Crédit Foncier, Marseille, France. "Retrospective" National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid, Spain.
1995	"Tango", Photosynkyria 95", Thessaloniki, Greece. "Flamenco", Banque Crédit Foncier, Bordeaux, France. "Tauromachies", Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France. "Isabel Muñoz, Photographs, University of Mimar Sinan, Istanbul, Turkey. "Flamenco", IV Competition Choreography of Spanish Dance and Flamenco, Teatro Albéniz, Madrid, Spain. "Fragments", Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain. "Isabel Muñoz", the Municipal House of Culture "Carlos Muñoz Ruiz, Madrid, Spain. "Correspondances", Friends of the Ballet of Monte Carlo, Paris Hotel, Monaco, France.
1996	"Danses", Galerie du Château d'eau, Toulouse, France. "Rythmes", La Filature, Mulhouse, France.
1997	"Forward planning", The Galerie du Théâtre, Gap, France. "I Fitted Bodice With Pleating Detail The Pietra", Gallery Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Italy. "Fight Turkish", Larger Workshop, Madrid, Spain. "44 Photographs," Study of Formation of Image Technicians, Madrid, Spain. "Isabel Muñoz Photographies: Danses", Festival, Beiteddine, Beirut, Lebanon. "Cambodiana", L'atelier du Midi, Arles, France. "I wave dance!", Espace Malraux, Chambery, France. "Tango", Mortarotti, Milan, Italy. "Isabel Muñoz", Obra social de Caja Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
1998	"Isabel Muñoz, la Tauromaquia", FNAC, Madrid, Spain. "Isabel Muñoz, Photographs: the Fight Turkish-Cambodia", Exhibition Hall Center "The Dehesillas", Leganés, Madrid, Spain. "2 for 1", PHotoEspaña98, Gallery Utopia Parkway, Madrid, Spain. "Le corps de la danse", the Théâtre National de la Communauté Française de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
1999	“Flamenco”, Teatro Villamarta in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain. “Africa”, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain. “Cambodia wound”, E. F. T. I., Madrid, Spain.
2000	"D'afrique et de Chine, 1999", VU' La Galerie, Paris, France. "The clear object of desire", The Factory Gallery, Madrid, Spain. “Moments of Meeting”, at the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. “Isabel Muñoz”, Théatre de l Agora, Evry, Paris, France. "Fight Turkish", Festivals of Navarre, Citadel of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
2001	“Fragments”, Dansmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden. “The Empire of the Senses”, Festival Erótico de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. “Shaolin”, Ongarri, Elgoibar, Spain. “Flamenco, Oriental, Tango, “Africa”, Maison Robert Doisneau, Gentilly, France.
2002	“Fragments”, Dansmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden. “The Empire of the Senses”, Festival Erótico de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. “Shaolin”, Ongarri, Elgoibar, Spain. “Flamenco, Oriental, Tango, “Africa”, Maison Robert Doisneau, Gentilly, France. Musée de la Danse, Stockholm, Sweden. "Fight Turkish", Festivals of Navarre, Citadel of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. Musée de la Danse, Stockholm, Sweden.
2003	“Surma People, Ethiopia”, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal. “Dance”, Maison Robert Doisneau, France. “Isabel Muñoz”, Royal Photographic Society of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, The Showcase of San Pedro, Madrid, Spain. “Dance”, Galerie Carré Amelot, La Rochelle, France.
2004	“The Surma”, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. “Isabel Muñoz”, VU’ La Galerie, Paris, France. “Basin in the Eyes,” Museo Casa Zabala, Cuenca, Spain.
2005	“Isabel Muñoz”, Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Milan, Italy. “Isabel Muñoz”, Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Sicily, Italy. “Isabel Muñoz”, Vu’ La Galerie, Paris, France. “Body to Body”, Cultural Center of Spain in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. “Afrique, peuples pasteurs au sud de l Ethiopia”, Seine 51, Galerie d'art Contemporaine. Paris, France.
2006	“Isabel Muñoz”, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Diputación de Cádiz. Cadiz, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz. Eastern”, Ayuntamiento de Fuenlabrada (Madrid), (6-31 march) “Isabel Muñoz”, Exhibition Hall of the Cultural Center of the Villa, Madrid. “Isabel Muñoz and the National Ballet of Cuba. The sublime usefulness of the useless”, National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Cuba). “Isabel Muñoz”, Diputación de Huesca (19 January – 25 February), Spain. “Isabel Muñoz, bodies as territory”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Gallery Luis Burgos art of the TWENTIETH century, Madrid (march 29 – may 25), Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico CITY (as of 28 march), Mexico. “Maras”, Casa de América, Madrid (April 19 – may 27), Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Kursaal, San Sebastian (April 26 – June 27)
2007	“Isabel Muñoz”, Exhibition Hall of the Diputación de Huesca, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz, bodies as territory”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Gallery Luis Burgos art of the TWENTIETH century, Madrid, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico CITY, Mexico. “Maras”, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Kursaal, San Sebastian, Spain. “Ethiopia”, Gallery Pains Sierra, Madrid, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz, bodies as territory”, Museum of the City of Lugo, Lugo, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Galería Juan Manuel Lumbreras, Bilbao, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany. “Stone,” Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, Spain. “The Sublime utilité de l inutile”, Château des Bouillants, Dammarie-lès-Lys, France. “Isabel Muñoz”, Gallery Ana Vilaseco, La Coruña, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz, Room Conca, Tenerife, Spain. “Trafficking and slavery”, city Council of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
2008	“Photography – Isabel Muñoz”, Fototeca Nacional del INAH, Pachuca, Mexico. “Photography – Isabel Muñoz”, National Centre for the Arts in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. “Isabel Muñoz”, Kur Gallery, San Sebastián, Spain “Isabel Muñoz. Photo”, Spain's Cultural Center, Miami, USA “To defeat without a fight”, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain. “The body as a territory”, Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Spain. “Fleur de Peau”, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium. “Maras – Isabel Muñoz”, Cultural Center of Montevideo, Uruguay. “Maras – Isabel Muñoz”, Andalusian Center of Photography (department of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía), Almería, Spain.
2009	“Maras – Isabel Muñoz”, Art Museum of San Pedro, Puebla, Mexico. “Isabel Muñoz. Plan with minorities”, Boulevard Allende, Alcobendas, Spain. “Maras”- Project Periscope and Obra Social de Caja Vital Kutxa. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”. Marlborough Gallery, Madrid
2010	“Childhood”. CaixaForum Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain “Childhood”. CaixaForum Madrid. Madrid, Spain “Loyalty.” Galerie Seine 51. Paris. “The love and the ecstasy”. Canal de Isabel II, Madrid. PHotoEspaña. Madrid, Spain
2011	“The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. “The Beast”. Spanish Cultural center in Managua, Nicaragua. “The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in San Salvador, El Salvador. “Childhood”. IVAM, Valencia, Spain. “Rythm”. Gallery Art+Art, Moscow, Russia. “The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in Guatemala. “Childhood”. Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. “The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. “The Beast”. Spanish Cultural center in Miami, Florida, united States. “The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in La Paz, Bolivia.
2012	“Dances and Rites.” Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”. The Prison. Segovia Center of Creation. “Shaolin Dancing Warriors”. Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai, China. “The Beast”. Cultural center of Spain in Asuncion, Paraguay. “The skin of the earth”. Gallery Nuevoarte, Seville, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”. Galerie Seine 51, Paris, France. “Isabel Muñoz: travel the world”. Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.
2013	“The voice of the body”. Poligono Gallery, Marbella, Malaga, Spain. “Isabel Muñoz”. Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, United States. “Isabel Muñoz”. Teatro Anita Villalaz, I Biennial of the South, Panama City, Panama.

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