The Alhóndiga-Segoviano de Photography and the house of reading simultaneously hosts the work of photographer Manolo Valmorisco, the first retrospective of this creator after more than 25 years of photographic experience in which two places in the world have been defining both of his personal life and his passion for photography; On the one hand, Chile, where the author worked in the 80s, and on the other, the Segovian town of Arcones.
In both cases, the importance of childhood and nature in the biography of people and how they help overcome absence and remoteness shows through their works. As highlighted by the Councilor for Culture, Juan Carlos Monroy, “Valmorisco naked in his works the emotions to celebrate them with him; there is a tenderness towards the modest, the popular and lacking arrogance. He shares his biography through his images in a timeless sequence where every detail justifies their existence.”
‘Manolo Valmorisco: The world, my patio’ is the title of the exhibition that can be seen in the Alhóndiga where the author shows four series of Chile: macro photographs of tiny flowers of the flowery desert; Ephemeral lifes of algae and jellyfish arrived at the coast of the Atacama desert; A tour of the traditional architectures of coniferous landscapes that cover the houses and homes of the south of the country and breakfast with a newspaper of events of ordinary reality.Juana on her cover. – Photo: Valmorisco
As for Arcones, where he resides since 2003, Valmorisco teaches through his photographs the uniqueness of this small town reflected in his lineage of transhumant shepherds and in his traditions such as Carnival, unique in the world. It also brings the landscapes, landscapes and countrymen captured by the objective of its camera and the oldest in an excellent serious portraits.
‘Chile’s poem’. The work of this creator extends to the exhibition hall of the house of reading, where ‘Poem of Chile’ is released to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the delivery of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Chilean poet and intellectual Gabriela Mistral.
This exhibition was born as a result of chance, after acquiring in a Santiago de Chile bookstore a guide of the Veraneante edited in 1945 and finding fortuitously among its pages a Christmas card with dedication and the autograph of the Chilean poet. From here, Manolo Valmorisco begins a photographic trip with a copy of the first edition of ‘Poem of Chile’, the posthumous work of Mistral. In the exhibition the photos dialogue with the poems of the book in a tribute to the author’s poetic genius and the extraordinary nature of her country.A part of the works of the creative that can be seen in Segovia. – Photo: ds
The author himself has indicated that, despite the distance, there is something that unites Chile and Segovia and at the same time with himself: childhood and nature. The childhood of the elderly that one day left and then returned to their land and recover their traditions, that of Gabriela Mistral who had to leave very young from his native Chile, but never forgot and wrote a book remembering his childhood and that of Manolo Valmorisco himself who marked his first encounter with nature being a child. All this is reflected in these exhibitions that can be visited in the case of the Alhóndiga until May 29, and in the house of reading until June 8.
Both exhibitions strengthen the positioning of definition of cultural spaces dedicated to photography in the case of the Alhóndiga, and to the book, reading and literature, in the case of the house of reading, as indicated by the Councilor for Culture.
Manuel Valmorisco. The author studied advertising and political sciences. Creative advertising since 1972, has worked in Madrid, Santiago, Chile and Paris. He has been chosen by his academic colleagues of the Academy of Advertising YC of C of Honor to the Trajectory by the Creative Club.Manuel Valmorisco, together with the Councilor for Culture, Juan Carlos Monroy (left). – Photo: ds
Since he began exposing in 2003, his work has been exhibited in more than thirty galleries and fair of Spain and Europe. His photos are part of the collection of the Congress of Deputies and several private collections. In 2017, he was selected for photomobing discoveries.
