Turolense photographer Antonio Bascón “Sevi” opens an exhibition with 38 color and black snapshots In everyone’s square from Madrid on May 23 that can be visited until the 25th of the same month, coinciding with the San Isidro Fair, The main bullfighting appointment of the country. The vast majority of the images correspond to bullfighting aspects in different towns in the province of Teruel, with Una special attention to transhumance of Bravas cattle that takes place between the Sierra de Albarracín and Jaén.
The exhibition, entitled ‘Lights and shadows’, It can be seen in the Antoñete Sales room, a bullfighting enclosure that Sevi considers “The cathedral of bullfighting.” However, the sample does not reflect the bullfighting, but cultural or human aspects linked to the world of bulls.
He dedicates special attention to the province because, although the exhibition is a personal project, the photographer wants “that the province of Teruel is protagonist.” To the images of Cella, Albalate del Archbishop, Castellote, Albarracín or La Puebla de Valverdeamong other representatives represented, photos of other places related to bullfighting, such as Seville, Valencia or Mexico are added.
-Antonio Bascón is shown expectant to the response of the Madrid public Faced with his first individual exhibition in Madrid, although he treasures extensive experience as the protagonist of photographic samples around the bullfighting world and accumulates numerous awards in this field.
He has starred in Spanish cities such as Valencia, but also abroad. He has shown his work in Mexico, Italy, France, Portugal, Ecuador and Russia. Remember that the sample carried out in the Italian city of Catania was organized for the benefit of the Red Cross.
However, The challenge of sales It is capital because this enclosure passes daily during the San Isidro Fair an average of 24,000 people. Their goal is that part of them take the opportunity to see “lights and shadows.”
