Juan deSande

Juan deSande - S/T

Technique: Color photography, Glicée Print on dibond, Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper

Artist Biography: Juan de Sande lives and works in Madrid. He is a photographer, although he started out as a painter. Recently he has also experimented in the field of sculpture. His photographic production is composed of series, usually in large format. The work reflects on image and artifice, reality and contemporary creation, absence and human presence, through architecture, nature and more recently interior spaces. Music, literature, painting and sculpture, very present in his life, also feed his creative work. His photographs are the result of a long, complex and systematic process of image construction in the studio, using digital techniques applied to the original photograph, obtained with medium and large format analog cameras. He began his exhibition career in the late 90's, participating since then in some of the most prestigious photography and visual arts exhibitions and contests in Spain, such as the Pilar Citoler, L'Oreal, Purificación García or AENA awards, the Endesa scholarships, Generación 2000 of Caja Madrid and the PhotoEspaña festival. He has received commissions for photobooks or photography magazines, such as Matador, and his work has been present in different editions of fairs such as ARCOMadrid, MadridFoto, ParisPhoto, PhotoMiami or Pulse Miami, among others. His work is part of important Spanish public and private collections, such as the Juan March Foundation, the Alcobendas Collection, the Community of Madrid, the Fine Arts Museum of Santander, the Masaveu Collection or the Matador Club Collection, as well as private collections. Collected in the Dictionary of Spanish Photographers, published in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, in addition to other publications and catalogs.