Women marching down the Gran Vía
In 2019, it will be 80 years since the end of the Civil War. It is said soon, but eight decades have gone a long way. They have given, for example, to rebuild a city, Madrid, which experienced a siege of 850 days. And it is precisely that Madrid, the one that suffered the war , the one that co-stars in **the Madrid exhibition how well you resist! ** The other actor who enters the scene is that same Madrid, only currently photographed.
Same scenario for two different realities that are traversed contemplating all 50 images that make up this sample that can be seen until May 20 in the vault room the Casa de la Panadería, in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
Yesterday and today of Puerta del Sol
A travel in the time, from the military uprising of July 36 to the present; and in space, from Vallecas to the Ciudad Universitaria, passing through the Manzanares or the Salamanca district, behind which is ** Javier Marquerie ,** the photographer, author of the images that reflect the present, and also curator of the exhibition.
“I was not interested in the before and after as such. The before and after I think it has a very short journey, I wanted there to be a narrative; that the two photographs, both the old one and the current one, tell a story, a story of the evolution of the city (...) in which there is only the first frame and the last frame of a shot that has lasted 80 years. The narration of the city of the people who live it, of the people who inhabit it is very clear”, explained Marquerie in the presentation of the exhibition.
Madrid, how well you resist! is a selection of fifty images of the 122 that the photographer took between 2014 and 2017 . Four years of rephotography, that is, four years of shoot his camera from the exact point and at the same time that another photographer had done it 80 years earlier. When portraying the house on Calle Perioncely, 10, in Entrevías, the same one that Capa immortalized, "my legs shook," he confessed.
For this work, he has used lenses from the 1940s, but adapted to today's digital cameras; and later he has used the technique of collage.
Exhibition 'Madrid, how well you resist!' at the Bakery House
Sponsored by the Office of Human Rights and Memory of the Madrid City Council, the exhibition wants describe the war and how it affected the population of the city besieged with some images organized in five chapters: Life, The Journey, The Rubble, The War, and The Blood.
“They talk about the war in Madrid and they talk about the Casa de Campo, the Ciudad Universitaria and that they went hungry; but There is no absolute awareness that the war that took place in Madrid for three years was a total war. People had to leave, certain neighborhoods of the city were as destroyed as London; people died in the street, not in the front, two kilometers from the front, people died from the bombing, and then the city was rebuilt” explained
The exhibition can be seen until May 20