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GABRIEL CUALLADO P H O T O G R A P H E R NOTES プレスキット BIOGRAPHI QUES PRESS KIT KIT DE GABRIEL PRENSA 1925-2003 CUALLADO P H O T O G R A P H E R B I O G 1925-2003 R A P H Y BIO G A B R I E L GRAPHY プレスキット C U A L L A D O 1925 Born in 1925, Gabriel Far f rom the great He was born in Massanassa, Valencia, Spain. During Cualladó is considered one events, Cualladó focused on the his childhood, he often accompanied his father, a horticulturist, to Valencia on his trips (he remembers of the most outstanding intimate and close the port and the smell of oranges). representatives of the details of everyday 1941 movement of the renovation life, through of Spanish photography of photographs of his f riends, family and He travels to Madrid and starts working with his the second half of the 20th anonymous people. uncle Alfonso. in his uncle's transport company. century. Among the most His most prolific outstanding features of his years were those 1951 work is the humanist and comprised in the decades of the fifties, His first child, Gabriel, is born and buys a Capta poetry-laden look with sixties and seventies, camera for ninety pesetas to take pictures of him as which he portrayed the in which he signed he grows up. This is the beginning of his love for gray reality of post-war photographic series set in Madrid, Paris photography. Angeles, Antonio and Alfonso will be Spanish society. and Asturias. born a short distance away. 1956 He joins the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid (RSF). One year later, he joins the Afal group. 1957 He puts together a group exhibition in a bookstore, with Paco Gómez, Rafael Romero and José Aguilar. This exhibition will later be considered to be the first Spanish photographic renewal exhibition. 1959 One of his pictures (Ramón Masats Wedding) is awarded by the North American magazine Popular O Photography. Him and the Afal group exhibit their works in Spain and other countries (Pescara Biennial, Italy; library of the Spanish embassy, Paris; as well as London, Munich and Moscow). Cantero, Gómez, Masats, Ontañón, Cualladó and Camín constitute the group La Palangana (alluding to a photo of Ontañón with the portraits of the six photographers revealing themselves in a basin). G A B R I E L 1961 After his participation in the Portrait Salon, his "The Girl with the Rose" photograph, enters the collection of the Département des Estampes et de la Photographie de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF). He is awarded with the Luis Navarro Photography Trophy from Vanguardia Barcelona. He assiduously collects books and プレスキット C U A L L A D O Photography has magazines from abroad (Life, Look, Paris Match, Vogue ...), drawing on critical, historical or monographic articles, which he shares with his friends. always been 1962 surrounded by the His work is exhibited at the Fodor museum in mystery of Amsterdam and at the Mostra Internazionale Circolo La Gondola in Venice. He is awarded with the Gold simplicity. The Medal and the Best Portrait Award from the Sandnes International Photography Salon (Norway). From that grasping simplicity year on, the English Photography Year Book will of Walker Evans of regularly publish his work. In the autumn of that year the French Tourism Council commissions him, along André Kertesz of with other Spanish photographers, to produce a photo-reportage of Paris. His work was not to the Manuel Álvarez of Council's liking, who judged it to be too controversial. Gabriel Cualladó. Those photographs consisted, namely, in "La rue de la Paix", "Les Halles" and "La Place du Tertre". 1963 Jean Claude Lemagny His work is exhbited in the "Salon de la Imagen" in Barcelona. A couple of lonths after, he was also invited to participate in Sonimag, along with twenty-five other Spanish photographers. This is the year when he also participated in the World Exhibition of Photography sponsored by Stern magazine, accross European galleries and museums. 1966 The year of the a great "Interpress-Photo" exhibition in Moscow, which hosted the work of two thousand selected photographers from around the world. 1978 His work is presented at the "Rencontres Internationales de Photographie" in Arles, France, alongside other Spanish photographers. 1980 He is selected to feature with his photos in "The Complete Book of Photographers" (Mac Millan, Los Angeles), as well as in "Contemporary Photographers" (St. James Press London) 1982 The public discovers his work through a series of exhibitions International Center : of Photography and Galleria Spectrum Canon, during the Photographic Spring of 1988 Barcelona Bilbao Museum Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid Spectrum ; ; ; of Girona and Center Fotogr fic Visor of Valencia. In those first years of the á decade, he accompanied the rise of the recently inaugurated Forum Gallery in Tarragona, in charge of David Balsells and Chantal Grande. He joined the list of photographers of the Forum Gallery (Tarragona). He exhibits in Vinck (Gij n), in ó the Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid). The Département des Estampes et de la Photographie de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF) acquires seventeen of his works. He participates in the International Symposium of the Florida and O hio niversities. He participates in the Photographic Days of Valencia and in U Photographie Créative during the "Mois de la Photographie" de Paris. G A B R I E L 1988 At that point, Cualladó's work is starting to be recognized at an international level and he is invited プレスキット 1992 to exhibit his work at many majort events, both in Spain and abroad. The greatest consecration of it will C U A L L A D O undoubtedly be the great exhibition organized by the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art). The National Museum of Photography Film & Television (Bradford) R.U. awards him with the ICI award for best European photographer among 30 selected photographers. 1993 Commissioned by the museum itself, he produces a museum themed photographic work at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid "Points of View". 1994 The Spanish Ministry of Culture awards him the first of the "National Photography Prize". 1995 He exhibits part of his work and his collection in Montpellier, France. 1998 He is awarded with the 1st Gold Medal from the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. 2002 The Valencia Provincial Council grants him the "Alfons Roig" Prize for his artistic career. 2003 On May 30, he dies in Madrid, at the age of 78. 2003 Several major museums pay tribute to his work by organizing both individual and collective exhibitions. 2021 Namely the Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid; La Pedrera, Barcelona, the IVAM, Valencia, as well as several others. A series of exhibitions are set to be prepared on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his death. An opportunity to confront our modern societies with the ones that Cuallado photographed in his time. How have we changed since then? What would he photograph today if he were to be alive? G A B R I E L PUBLICAT プレスキット C U A L L A D O IONS L'Albufera Visio Tangencial Generalitat Valenciana, IVAM 1985 Cuallado Points of View October 19, 1995 - January 14, 1996 Madrid Thyssen-Bornemisza 1995 Gabiel Cualladó. Daily Images 1956-1995 Ministry of Culture 1996 PhotoBolsillo - Gabriel Cuallado La Fábrica 1999 Homenaje a Gabriel Cuallado Generalitat Valenciana, IVAM 2003 La Palangana VV.AA 2014 Une Collection Actes Sud, Maison Européenne de la Photographie 2015 Spanish Photography Essentials - 17 Gabriel Cualladó, La Fábrica 2017 Cualladó Esencial, Comunidad de Madrid, Publicaciones Oficiales 2019 Gent i llocs: Gabriel Cualladó en la col·lecció de l'IVAM Álvaro De los Ángeles Rodríguez 2019 G A B R I E L プレスキット C U A L L A D O CONTACT FOR GENERAL INQUIRIES TO BUY AN ARTWORK CONTACT@GABRIEL-CUALL ADO.COM galeria@bl ancaberlingaleria.com +34 91 54 29 313 Spain France Galeria Blanca Berlin 28018 Madrid 75011 Paris Cail e del Limón, 28 28015, Madrid Spain w w w . g a b r i e l - c u a l l a d o . c o m