Colombian gallery MÜ will be showcasing, through October 13, the exhibition of Guatemalan photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma, titled Escenas de Intimidad, which merges two worlds that have been vastly explored by the artist: the portrait of “the Latin American” and pictures of productions with metaphoric and surrealist tone. The pieces included tell stories with obvious literary roots, close to the sensitivity of Juan Rulfo’s or Edgar Allan Poe’s prose.
Two series were handpicked as center of the exhibition: Jerarquias de intimidad (el duelo y el encuentro), pictures taken between 2004 and 2005, and Escenas, his latest work, produced in 2011.
"I’m particularly interested in finding sense. The image that contains certain nostalgia feeling is very important, not because of its relation with past times, but due to its link with the present that is actually the only time we own," Gonzalez Palma said during an interview with PhotoEspaña in 1999 when he received the "Baume et Mercier" award. This is the artist’s fifth solo show in 2012.
Old printing techniques, conceptualization and the creation of a personal aesthetic, have turned Gonzalez Palma into one of the most significance photographers in Latin America. His work has been individually exhibited at The Lannan Foundation in the United States; The Australian Centre for Photography; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico; The Royal Festival Hall in London and the Palazzo Ducale di Genova, Italy. He has participated in collective exhibitions, including the 49th and 51st editions of Venice Biennial and the Fifth Biennial of Havana.
Galeria MÜ
Cr 4A #26B-29, Casona de San Miguel
Bogota, Colombia
Source: Press release
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