The Andalusian Centre of Photography, managed by the Regional Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport through the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions, is organising guided tours on 22 and 29 December for adults, and workshops for children on 27 and 28 December, both around the exhibition ‘Siquier Collection’ recently inaugurated on the occasion of the centre’s 30th anniversary. Registrations are open and those interested can get information on the website www.centroandaluzdelafotografia.es or by calling 950 18 63 60/61.
During the visits, experts in cultural mediation and artistic education will provide the public with knowledge about the figure of this great photographer in his facets and fundamental stages. Looking through the author, the visitor will find significant reflections of our society and local culture and will learn and reflect on who we are, who we were, and on the multiple images that the artist produced on a social, cultural, aesthetic or historical level. This tour has been christened ‘The gaze of Carlos Pérez Siquier’ and is scheduled for Thursdays 22 and 29 December at 11.30 am and 7.30 pm. They will last approximately 50 minutes and have a capacity of 20 people.
The Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions with this activity, based on the aims of the Society for Artistic Education, will bring the importance of knowing how to look at, make and communicate with images to young and adult audiences, given that we live in an iconic and hypervisualised world. These actions are part of the CAF’s ‘Let yourself go’ programme, through which it organises different guided visits to its exhibitions and for different audiences, with the aim of bringing its exhibitions, collections and bibliographic holdings closer to all interested people and groups, offering more and more learning opportunities.
Those interested, individuals or small groups on request, should send their application to info.caf.aaiicc@juntadeandalucia.es with the day, time and number of people attending. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and confirmation of booking will be sent by email. It is also possible to arrive half an hour before the start of the visit and sign up on the spot if places are still available.
In the workshops section, children aged 7 to 12 will enjoy fun and educational workshops led by experts in arts education on 27 and 28 December at 11.30 am. Not only will they get to know the work of the photographer from Almería, but they will also learn about art through spatial experience and photography, for which they will be required to bring a digital camera, mobile phone or tablet.
In addition, different sheets of paper with significant details of Carlos Pérez Siquier’s photographs and cardboard frames will be used to bring them closer to concepts linked to framing and the control of perspective. On the other hand, to explore the abstraction of the series ‘La Chanca in colour’, they will carry out a plastic action based on collage from an active and collaborative approach.
It will last between 90 and 120 minutes with a maximum of 15 participants and a reservation limit of three places per application. Places can be reserved between 19 and 23 December (until 11 a.m.) by filling in a form at: https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/aaiicc/formulario/solicitud-de-preinscripcion-en-talleres-infantiles-del-centro-andaluz-de-la-fotografia. For more information, please contact the website, email and telephone numbers indicated.
Siquier Collection
The exhibition consists of 92 photographs which trace the career of one of the great innovators of contemporary Spanish photography, winner of the National Photography Prize in 2003. The works come mainly from the Andalusian Centre of Photography’s collection, but also from the Ibáñez Cosentino Art Foundation, a collaborating entity. The curator of the exhibition, Juan María Rodríguez, has selected pieces from his works ‘La Chanca’, ‘Informalismos’, ‘La playa’, ‘Color del Sur’, ‘Almería – Granada – Sevilla. Un viaje en tren’, ‘Imágenes de la Maestranza’, ‘La Briseña’ and ‘Mi sombra y yo’ among others, and 16 more works by contemporary photographers have been included.
The exhibition also houses three displays with collector’s editions of books on Pérez Siquier on loan from the curator of the exhibition, together with a collection of original posters of his exhibitions, as well as objects never before exhibited such as photographs from the family’s private album, his cameras and other personal objects provided by his daughter Gloria Pérez Siquier. In addition, users will have at their disposal an extensive room brochure that includes a 16-page insert with images of the author.
Colección Siquier’ will remain open until 9 April every day from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:30 to 21:30. The only days closed are 24, 25 and 31 December 2022, 1, 5 (in the afternoon) and 6 January 2023.
Andalusian Centre of Photography. 30th anniversary.
The Andalusian Centre of Photography was born from the experience of the Imagina project, developed in Almeria between 1990 and 1992 on the occasion of the commemoration of the V Centenary of the Discovery of America. This initiative was the first time in Spain that artists of international prestige travelled to Almería to exhibit their photographs – approximately seventy exhibitions were held – and, at the same time, they produced photographs in different parts of the province of Almería, such as the desert, the coast and the city – 456 images were brought together in an exhibition of the same name as the project and collected in a catalogue published by the centre itself. Subsequently, the Regional Government of Andalusia, by decree of 24 November 1992, created the Andalusian Centre of Photography with the valuable funds inherited from the ‘Imagina’ project and with the aim of continuing to promote the interest it had aroused both nationally and internationally.
Since then, the CAF has amassed a volume of works that have made it a centre of reference in the field of photography both nationally and internationally.