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Straight from Spain: Isabel Muñoz & Castro Prieto

Past exhibition
August 31 - October 4, 2014 San Antonio
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Isabel Muñoz Untitled, Serie Mevlevies, 2008 Platinum print. Arches Platine. 31.5 x 23.6", 80 x 60 cm, ed. of 25
Isabel Muñoz Untitled, Serie Mevlevies, 2008 Platinum print. Arches Platine. 31.5 x 23.6", 80 x 60 cm, ed. of 25

Ruiz-Healy Art, in collaboration with BLANCA BERLÍN GALERÍA, Madrid, is pleased to present Straight from Spain: Photography by Isabel Muñoz and Juan Manuel Castro Prieto and in conjunction with FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA International Photography Festival. The exhibition will open September 4 with a reception 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

 

Isabel Muñoz is entranced by dance, and her photographs of the body clothed, nude, and costumed, reverberate with motion. A master of the platinum print, which she uses to optimal effect to draw rich tonalities of shadow and light, Muñoz extends her depictions of wrestlers, monks, Flamenco dancers, and bullfighters towards a meditation on being in the world. Her grand theme is, quite literally, embodiment. Born in 1951 in Barcelona, and living in Madrid since 1970, Muñoz studied at Fotocentro in Madrid, the School of Visual Studies, Rochester, N.Y., and the International Center of Photography in New York City, where she studied large format and traditional printing techniques. Her appreciation for dance derives from her own personal practice. Whether she photographs the body in motion or at rest, as young or old, Muñoz celebrates corporal vitality.

 

Born in 1958 in Madrid, where he currently lives, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto is a trained economist whose mathematical skills underlie the making of visionary landscapes, carefully wrought architectural studies, and unsettling reportage of vaguely discerned, yet politically charged social terrains. Always, it is place that fascinates. Coming to photography as a self-taught enthusiast in 1970, albeit with a background in science, Prieto has developed travel photography into fantastical formal studies that escape the limits of exoticism. Influenced by Gabriel Cualladó and Paco Gómez, whom he met at the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid, Prieto has furthered their strategy of using neorealism to position photography as an expressive art.

 

Drawing upon tradition to express highly personal and idiosyncratic visions, both artists are acknowledged exemplars of Spanish photography today.

 

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Works
  • Isabel Muñoz Untitled, Danza Cubana, 1995 Platinum print, Arches Platine 31.5 x 23.6" 80 x 59.9 cm 5 / 25
    Isabel Muñoz
    Untitled, Danza Cubana, 1995
    Platinum print, Arches Platine
    31.5 x 23.6"
    80 x 59.9 cm
    5 / 25
  • Isabel Muñoz Untitled, Serie Mevlevies, 2008 Platinum print, Arches Platine 31.5 x 23.6" 80 x 59.9 cm 3 / 25
    Isabel Muñoz
    Untitled, Serie Mevlevies, 2008
    Platinum print, Arches Platine
    31.5 x 23.6"
    80 x 59.9 cm
    3 / 25
  • Isabel Muñoz Untitled, Serie Bam, 2005 Platinum print, Arches Platine 31.5 x 23.6" 80 x 59.9 cm 1 / 25
    Isabel Muñoz
    Untitled, Serie Bam, 2005
    Platinum print, Arches Platine
    31.5 x 23.6"
    80 x 59.9 cm
    1 / 25
  • Castro Prieto Badalona, Biutiful, 2009 Pigmented inks on 100% cotton paper 22 x 27.6" 55.9 x 70.1 cm 1 / 7
    Castro Prieto
    Badalona, Biutiful, 2009
    Pigmented inks on 100% cotton paper
    22 x 27.6"
    55.9 x 70.1 cm
    1 / 7
  • Castro Prieto Bahía de Cook, Isla Tanna. Vanuatu, 2005 Mineral pigments inkjet on 100% cotton paper 23.6 x 19.8 in 59.9 x 50.3 cm Control de copia 3
    Castro Prieto
    Bahía de Cook, Isla Tanna. Vanuatu, 2005
    Mineral pigments inkjet on 100% cotton paper
    23.6 x 19.8 in
    59.9 x 50.3 cm
    Control de copia 3
  • Castro Prieto Rosas Secas, Bodas de Sangre, 2010 Pigmented inks on 100% cotton paper 22 x 27.6" 55.9 x 70.1 cm 1 / 7
    Castro Prieto
    Rosas Secas, Bodas de Sangre, 2010
    Pigmented inks on 100% cotton paper
    22 x 27.6"
    55.9 x 70.1 cm
    1 / 7
Installation Views
  • 2014 Fotoseptiembre Usa Ruiz Healy Art 005
  • 2014 Fotoseptiembre Usa Ruiz Healy Art 004
  • 2014 Fotoseptiembre Usa Ruiz Healy Art 003
  • 2014 Fotoseptiembre Usa Ruiz Healy Art 002
Press
  • "Straight from Spain: Photography by Isabel Muñoz and Juan Manuel Castro Prieto" runs through October 4, 2014 at Ruiz-Healy Art. Courtesy photo.

    International Collaboration is Theme for Ruiz-Healy Art | Straight from Spain

    Marco Aquino, San Antonio Report , September 14, 2014
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