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The Tamarugal exhibition, Rosell Meseguer shows his collection of photographs and audiovisual and was inaugurated Thursday July 9 in the Byzantine Wall attended by the Councillor for Culture, Education and Equality, David Martinez Noguera. The exhibition will be on display from today until 31 August.
Tamarugal is another collection than the Festival La Mar de Arte XXI Edition includes in its program. Rosell Meseguer has been from 2005 to 2013 traveled to northern Chile, Bolivia and Peru.
During those trips he made a series of audiovisual recordings and photographs, as well as the start of construction of an archive of materials related to the problems of the mining and fishing industries.
The Councillor for Culture, David Martinez Noguera presented the exhibition and explained that the work plays between reality and fiction, past and present, history and memory.
The mayor continued explaining the history of Rosell, as the council has had stays in major museums such as the MOMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris, and now comes to Cartagena Tamarugal.
In addition, it has also conveyed the importance of this work is based on documentation and photography of the problems of the mining industry and how this industry is capable of changing policies, society, economy and landscape of a country.
Finally he concluded by saying that the artist has created a link from the mining area of southeastern Spanish, where were Cartagena and saw stars, and Chile.
Tamarugal, is inserted into a larger project called Transit staff.
From the Mediterranean to the Pacific working relations with industry and economy of a country, establishing dialogues between industries in use and disuse.
A mining past and obsolete in Spain where it is no longer productive and unfortunately still has serious very complex social situations facing a mining-based economy as in Chile.
The files you work with Rosell Meseguer are composed of actual documents but which exposed a certain way, create the possibility of new readings of history.
Rosell MESEGUER Selected to be part of Plat (t) form 2013, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Zurich, finalist in the International Photography Award Pilar Citoler2014 2007 Aena Foundation and First Prize, his work is in collections including the Art Center Dos de Mayo CA2M;
the AENA Foundation, Caja Madrid Obra Socia l; Royal Academy of Spain, Rome Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid;. as well as private collections in Latin America and Europe His work developed in various -Photograph media, installation, file, publications, drawings, paintings and video is linked to the investigation of historical processes and their socio-political and economic consequences.
Analyzes the construction of history and creating documentation methodologies have been developed since 2001 in various research stays at MOMA, New York. Tate Britain, London;
the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Societé Française de Photographie, Paris; Cannonball Miami, Florida or the National Library of Spain BNE, Madrid.
He has been part of the research group Decolonizing knowledge and aesthetics between Goldsmiths London & MataderoMadrid.
He currently lives between Santiago de Chile and is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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