Alberto García Alix

Absence as a Stimulus is a new production by National Photography Prize-winner Alberto García-Alix. In the event, designed to be a type of visual conference, the author reflects on how absence, in its existence and as a vitalising stimulus, influences and is reflected in his work, and acts as a guiding thread and catalyst in his photographs. García-Alix presents 68 images, most of them unpublished, taken over the last 15 years, interspersed with his own narrative. The photographer reflects on how absence is present in everything we encounter: in nature, in architecture, in objects and even in portraiture "because something always escapes us from the model". In the words of the author, absence is a stimulus.

Alberto García-Alix was born in León and lived in Madrid from the age of 11. His first images date from the late 1970s. He established himself professionally as a photographer and held his first solo exhibitions in Madrid and London in the 1980s. He gained acclaim at the first edition of PhotoEspaña (1998), and was awarded the National Photography Prize in 1999. He began to work with both photographic and video images at the beginning of the 21st century, exhibiting in some of Spain and Europe's principal galleries and museums, such as the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Photographer's Gallery in London, the Prado Museum, and the Maison Europée de la Photographie in Paris.

The event will be moderated by Dr. Jimena Blázquez Abascal. With a PhD in Contemporary Art, she was director of the Fundación Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo NMAC in Vejer de la Frontera for 22 years, and now directs the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. In addition to being a noted art collector, she has curated more than 40 projects by artists such as James Turrell and Marina Abramovic. She received the National Award for Collecting in 2022. At the end of the event, Ricardo León Moro, with long experience in the field of cultural management and exhibition curatorship, will introduce some questions.

Event in Spanish