UNTIL SUNDAY 27/4
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
Says his son, what Gabriel Cualladó was very radical in the defense of his freedom to create and maintain the integrity of the work. Was a photographer who did not accept orthodoxy, dare with black in his pictures and seek minimalist and amazing frames where the context was fundamental. Was able to cut off his bride in the photos of his wedding or focus on the schoolboy and leave the blurred boyfriends in the background. Are photos that are part of a wedding report, virtually unpublished, that you can see on the second floor of this exhibition entitled Culladoo: file / work. The purpose is to value the documentary archive of Caladó that the family gave to IVAM in the year 2022. And it is that, Massanassa's was one of the first to collect photography in Spain, Like the IVAM in the museum field. That was a great aspiration of Calladó, Achieve recognition of photography as an art with Majúculas. He bought and exchanged photography when he was interested in what he saw, it gave it equal if the interchange was with Sebastìão Salgado or an unknown young photographer. The work must be separated from the archive? IVAM believes yes. On the top floor you will find black and white work of Caladó made between the sixties and nineties, Series like the one dedicated to the Albufera of Valencia or Gandia, With a clear ethnographic side. down, Curated photographs of magazines, Polaroids in color he has done in recent years and photographic books on Walker Evans (a benchmark) o Dorothea Lange, Author of the first photograph of her collection. The IVAM dismisses the year by putting on the table the work and archive of a Valencian who renewed the photograph of the state in the second half of the twentieth century. S.M.
