EXHIBITION “Naturatta” & “Frida’s Bathroom” a photography show by Graciela Iturbide S at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 9th February to 8th April 2016

Time : 
9th February : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 09/02/2016 19:00 09/02/2016 20:30 Asia/Kolkata Opening of “Naturatta” & “Frida’s Bathroom” a photography show by Graciela Iturbide S Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/02/exhibition-naturatta-fridas-bathroom.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY  - Opening
10th February to 8th April :  Add to Calendar 10/02/2016 18:00 08/04/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata EXHIBITION “Naturatta” & “Frida’s Bathroom” a photography show by Graciela Iturbide S Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/02/exhibition-naturatta-fridas-bathroom.html Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY
Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 
Saturdays & Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mondays - Closed

Entry : Free

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : EXHIBITION “Naturatta” & “Frida’s Bathroom” a photography show by Graciela Iturbide S

Synopsis: Graciela Iturbide (Mexico, 1942) is one of the most important contemporary photographers of the world; a simple, silent and almost invisible artist, whose eyes capture those moments where life can stay still. Unforgettable are her photographs of Juchitan, the Seris, of India, and many other of her beloved Mexico. Marked by the ritual of her work, for the tranquility of her time, by the fine encounter with the instant and the accuracy of the framing, her photographs stand out by the transparency of a reality that has been captured and transformed as a new, unique and inherent synthesis. It is a great privilege that Graciela Iturbide´s vision and language allow us, through these exhibitions, to know and appreciate her personal history, that of her people and their traditions, along with her quiet and creative heart. Through her photography we can appreciate the calmness and contemplation inherent in her work; her analog camera and meticulous laboratory techniques are a welcomed respite to the turbulence and immediacy of the digital
world. The exhibits presented here, Naturatta and Frida´s Bathroom, have toured the world successfully.
The first exhibit, consisting of a series of beautiful photographs taken at the Botanical Garden of Oaxaca, Mexico, during 1998 and 1999, shows stunning images of cactus and trees wrapped in bandages or covered with fabric and plastic, as if they were inhabitants of an open-door hospital, subject to a recovery treatment or under healing processes. The second collection of photographs is focused on the bathroom of Frida Kahlo, located at the Casa Azul in Coyoacan, a place that remained closed for 50 years, and to which Graciela Iturbide had access for the first time, achieving intimate images of Frida´s objects that capture the pain and suffering that this Mexican artist endured.
Cristina Alemparte Versluys

About the artist: Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. In 1969 she enrolled at the age of 27 at the film school Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México to become a film director. However she was soon drawn to the art of still photography as practiced by the Mexican modernist master Manuel Alvarez Bravo who was teaching at the University. From 1970-71 she worked as Bravo’s assistant accompanying him on his various photographic journeys throughout Mexico. In
1978 Iturbide was commissioned by the Ethnographic Archive of the National Indigenous Institute of Mexico to photograph Mexico’s indigenous population. Iturbide decided to document and record the way of life of the Seri Indians, a group of fisherman living a nomadic lifestyle in the Sonora desert in the north west of Mexico, along the border with Arizona, US. In 1979 she was invited by the artist Francisco Toledo to photograph the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
Iturbide’s series that started in 1979 and runs through to 1988 resulted in the publication of her book Juchitán de las Mujeres in 1989. Between 1980 and 2000, Iturbide was variously invited to work in Cuba, East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris and the US, producing a number of important bodies of work. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (1982), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1990), Philadelphia Museum of Art (1997), Paul Getty Museum (2007), MAPFRE Foudation, Madrid
(2009), Photography Museum Winterthur (2009), and Barbican Art Gallery (2012), between others. Iturbide is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award, 1987; the Grand Prize Mois de la Photo, Paris, 1988; a Guggenheim Fellowship for the project ‘Fiesta y Muerte’, 1988; the Hugo Erfurth Award, Leverkusen, Germany, 1989; the International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan, 1990; the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Award, Arles, 1991; the Hasselblad Award, 2008; the National Prize of
Sciences and Arts in Mexico City in 2008; an Honorary Degree in photography from the Columbia College Chicago in 2008; and an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. 

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