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Juan Manuel Castro Prieto - Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding)
Artist Biography: Juan Manuel Castro Prieto is a Spanish photographer born in Madrid in 1958. He started in photography in the early 1970s and in 1982 he graduated from the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid. Throughout his career, he has combined his personal work with commissioned photography for media and editorials.Castro Prieto is known for his poetic and evocative photographic style, which is characterized by the use of light and shadow to create suggestive and enigmatic atmospheres. His photographs, which focus on urban and rural landscapes, as well as portraits and everyday scenes, have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums around the world.Among the awards and recognitions he has received are the National Photography Award in 2015, the Bartolomé Ros Award for the best graphic work in 2011 and the Kodak Foundation Photography Award in 1994. His work has also been included in important collections, such as those of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and the Fundación Telefónica.In addition to his work as a photographer, Castro Prieto has also given workshops and lectures on photography at various institutions and has published several books, such as "The Human Factor" and "Mexico." His work continues to be relevant and admired in the world of contemporary Spanish photography.
Strangers' is the result of two decades of work. It explores Castro Prieto's most intimate and personal universe, the latent traces of the gaze, the devastation of memory, underlining the dreamlike and literary aspect of everyday life, elements that are present in all his work. In a suggestive circular format, the artist painstakingly captures fragments of 24 carat gold leaf on silver gelatin with a final layer of glass that highlights the strokes giving the whole a surprising sharpness. The gold gives a new layer of meaning to the series as an allegorical material of the futility of human beings and their dreams.
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