INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

Plossu. The land of landscapes [exhibition catalogue]

To create the works included in the exhibition being presented by the CDAN, Bernard Plossu, one of the most acclaimed photographers on the international art scene, spent two years exploring the landscape of the Sierras Exteriores in the province of Huesca.

Plossu’s black-and-white photographs capture the intimacy of the landscape and give us an insight into the experience of travelling through the land and looking at it from an aesthetic perspective. As the introduction to the catalogue points out, Plossu’s representation of the landscape is constructed through the repetition, at times almost obsessive, of a single subject seen from the same spot.

Writer Antonio Ansón accompanied Plossu on his travels through some of the landscapes captured in the photographs. These landscapes now have their own voice thanks to the characters created in the first pages of the catalogue.

Details:

• Plossu. The land of landscapes [exhibition catalogue]. Huesca: Centro de Arte y Naturaleza Fundación Beulas, 2009. 343 pages with black-and-white illustrations. Written in Spanish, English and French.

More information:

• Available at INDOC, Art and Nature Documentation Centre.

• Books are on sale at the CDAN and specialised bookshops.

• In addition to the exhibition catalogue, two other books have been published in connection with the show: Bara, featuring work by students who took part in a landscape photography workshop led by Bernard Plossu, and Duerme la caliza, a book of poems by Paco Grasa that refer to the landscape showcased in the exhibition.

• The bibliographical references for these publications can be consulted at the CDAN webpage Publications.

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