ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE OF MEXICO BY SALAS PORTUGAL AND FERNÁNDEZ BALBUENA IN FREIJO GALLERY
Madrid's Galería Freijo presents a photographic exhibition that materializes two singular views of Mexico in the mid-20th century: that of Armando Salas Portugal (Monterrey, Mexico, 1916 - Mexico City, Mexico, 1995) and his photographic work on the buildings of architect Félix Candela (Madrid, Spain, 1910 - Durham, USA, 1997), and that of architect Roberto Fernández Balbuena (Madrid, Spain, 1890 - Mexico City, Mexico, 1966), and his almost botanical devotion to documenting the ahuehuetes.
In Mexico. Architecture and Landscapes, which presents the space, presents together works by the two photographers that, although apparently distant in their subject matter, converge in the temporal and almost conceptual space of a Mexico open to modernity. Salas Portugal dedicated much of his work behind the camera documenting architecture and, especially, in the buildings of that modernity that arrived in the country and that was Candela's second home in his exile. In the tour, you can enjoy those snapshots that focus on the characteristic shells and umbrellas of the Spanish architect during that second stage.
Roberto Fernández Balbuena, a painter in addition to his facet as an architect, approaches that part of Mexican reality that contacts and coexists directly with nature. From his camera, the Spaniard photographed the singularity of that vegetation that formed shapes and shadows with which he played visual games, almost always influenced by his architectural gaze, thus combining nature and the artificial, the organic and the structural in his snapshots.
Mexico. Architecture and Landscapes can be seen until July 20 at Galeria Freijo, Zurbano, 46, Madrid, Spain.
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