Joan Fontcuberta

The Photography of Nature / The Nature of Photography

 

October 26, 2013 – January 19, 2014

 

Catalan photographer Joan Fontcuberta is the 33rd recipient of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, and this exhibition presents a selection of some of his most iconic works dealing with nature, science and fiction. Joan Fontcuberta is acclaimed for his innovative investigations of photography and its relation to reality as well as for his playful challenges of various authoritarian truth claims. The exhibition unites examples from classical series such as such as  Herbarium(1984),  Fauna  (1987),  Constellations  (1993), and  Sirens  (2000) shown in site-specific installations. Together they make up a journey through botany, zoology, astronomy, cosmonautics, palaeontology and geography as seen through the artist’s pseudo-scientific lens.

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