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CDAN to feature Magdalena Correa and Pedro Meyer this autumn

In the coming months, programming at the CDAN will spotlight photography. The CDAN will be one of the centres involved in presenting the innovative Heresies project created by artist Pedro Meyer, an exhibition that will run simultaneously in 100 museums worldwide thanks to the use of new technologies. Also, in The Disappearance: Crossing the Desert, from the Gobi to Atacama, Magdalena Correa examines the image of the territory through desert landscapes. The project, a coproduction of the CDAN and Casa Asia, will later travel to Madrid, New York, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo and Beijing. Both exhibitions will form part of the celebration of the Ibero-American Year, an initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.  

Pedro Meyer: Heresies

On October 3 the CDAN will open a retrospective covering five decades of the work of Pedro Meyer, one of the world's most innovative artists. The show will break new ground in terms of the approach taken to exhibiting photography and raises key two questions: what is a photography exhibition nowadays and what will they be like in the future?
Pedro Meyer’s project involves putting all of his images online and using electronic means to show them. Large-format prints will be presented alongside new technological elements such as digital multimedia galleries that combine text, images and audio; iPhones and iPods will be used to download videos and audio; and the approach will facilitate interaction between 100 participating museums, as well as between museums and visitors.
 

Heresies will be part of the CDAN’s contribution to the Periferias de Huesca festival.
 

The Disappearance: Crossing the Desert, from the Gobi to Atacama – Magdalena Correa

Starting on 10 October 2008 Chilean photographer Magdalena Correa will present her latest artistic project, a coproduction by Casa Asia and the CDAN. While Correa’s previous work, Austral, focused on Patagonia, in this project she turns her attention to the landscapes of the Gobi and Atacama deserts, territories she has spent the last two years exploring.

This work reflects the artist's interest in the toponymic figure of the ‘desert’ and its variations. The project began with an expedition to the Gobi Desert (in China and Mongolia) in July 2006, and in December of the same year the artist travelled to the Atacama Desert in Chile.

The initial aim of the project was to make a comparative study of the two deserts by investigating their most evident characteristics. In incorporating these geographies into her work, the artist has extended on a project she undertook some years ago that involved making a record of urban architectures, which she then went on to contrast with landscapes of desolation. According to Magdalena Correa, she is interested in ‘exploring and revealing the isolation, unfamiliarity and monumentality of the two deserts, and the relationship between humanity and its habitat, while also drawing attention to humankind’s ingenuous and brutal appropriation of its environment in its struggle to define its own identity.'

After its run at the CDAN, the exhibition will travel to Madrid, New York, São Paulo, Santiago de Chile and Beijing.

More information

•  Pedro Meyer Exhibition web page (CDAN website)
   

• Magdalena Correa exhibition web page(CDAN website)

Related websites

• Pedro Meyer website

• Periferias Festival website

Source: texts, CDAN; The photo on the right:  a Winslow by Pedro Meyer ; the photo on the left:  Magdalena Correa's video taken in the  Desert of Atacama (Chile).

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