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The Central Library of Cantabria hosts the work of the Italian photographer Massimo Vitali

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Since 1993, the Italian Massimo Vitali stands on a platform several meters high, and with a large camera he photographs beaches, nightclubs, ski resorts, supermarkets, swimming pools and other busy leisure areas.

The work of this contemporary photographer embodies the essence of leisure activity in the summer season.

But there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to this author’s idyllic seascapes. Vitali responded to the political turmoil in Italy in the 1940s, launching his beach series in the mid-1990s as a political commentary on mass tourism and social complacency. While Vitali’s photographs seem to depict the paradisiacal appearance from each place he captures, his work actually focuses on the individuals who appear in the composition and their collective response to society.

Massimo Vitali – Amadores Triptych left (#1990-91)

Using the beach as a platform for social research, Vitali sought to photograph bathers in their most vulnerable state in order to document society in its most authentic state Most of the artist’s work captures tourist destinations in Italy as it retains the idea that taking quality photos does not necessarily require traveling outside of your local community. Some of the famous places immortalized in Vitali’s work include Spargi Cala Corsara Cala Mariolu Porto Miggiano and Cefalù Viareggio however Vitali has since it has expanded beyond the borders of Italy to vacation spots in Brazil, Greece, Turkey and Spain.

Massimo Vitali photographs the latest outdoor furniture | Wallpaper*
Massimo Vitali, by Wallpaper*

Since the start of his iconic beach series, Vitali has continued to explore the natural environment, but instead focused on the impact of human disturbance on nature In contrast to his coastal scenes, Vitali focuses less on the pleasure and leisure of people and, instead, in the complex relationship between humans and their impact on the environment his most recent series entitled Disturbed Coastal Systems (April 2017) reveals an implicit message of the tension built between the man and nature.

Dates

08.09.2022- 02.10.2022

Organizer
Government of Cantabria. General Directorate of Culture and PHotoESPAÑA

Headquarters

Central Library of CantabriaC/ Ruiz de Alda, 19, 39009 Santander

Schedule

Mon-Fri / Mon-Fri: 09:00 – 21:00

Sat-Sun; fest / Sat-Sun; Hol: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Entrance
Free entry / Admission free

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ZUSH at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Ibiza

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From June 3 to November 30, 2022 | Museum of Contemporary Art of Ibiza
Curators: Enrique Juncosa, Xavier de Luca (Fundación Suñol) & Elena Ruiz.

Collaborator Galeria SENDA

The Councilor for Culture of the Eivissa City Council and president of the Board of Trustees of the Eivissa Museum of Contemporary Art, Pep Tur, the director of the Eivissa Museum of Contemporary Art, Elena Ruiz, and the artist Zush have presented the exhibition “Zush en Eivissa” which was inaugurated on Friday, June 3 at 7:00 p.m. and will remain on display until November 30, 2022.

The Councilor for Culture and President of the Board of Trustees of the Pep Tur Museum of Contemporary Art has stated that:

“Zush is one of the essential artists to understand the evolution of Spanish art in the 70s and 80s mainly. We are lucky that a large part of this production was made on the island of Eivissa. Getting a part of it together makes it one of the most important exhibitions of the season, not only in Ibiza or the Balearic Islands, but throughout the country. This exhibition demonstrates the increasingly ascending line that MACE has had in recent years.“

The exhibition focuses on the period between 1968 and 1983 in which Zush resided on the island of Ibiza, a period that became a moment of intense creativity for the artist, who experimented with very diverse formats and techniques, such as fluorescent painting illuminated by black light. This exuberant diversity of artistic proposals will be reflected in an exhibition that will present more than a hundred works, some seventy from the Suñol Soler Collection, which will be exhibited in the Arms Hall of the Ibizan museum.

The artist Zush has stated that: “ The works that can be seen in this exhibition correspond to the period of 18 years that he lived on the island. He has also added that what gives him the most joy is thinking that his works give people joy. “

The curator of the exhibition, Enrique Juncosa, has highlighted that Zush is an artist who:

“Has known how to create an inner world, creating characters and turning them into myths; He is a pioneering and current artist, as is the study of identity, his relationship with drawing, collaborations with other artists, his relationship with electronic music, and he is an advanced figure in the artistic currents of surrealism and pop art.”

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