Museum of Ethnology. Corona, 36
At the end of March, the City Council of Valencia inaugurated in the Municipal Exhibition Hall a sample dedicated to the photographs of Francesc Jarque and is now starting at the Museum of Ethnology is a kind of complementary continuation that is born of the collaboration between the Diputación de Valencia (that manages the Museum of Ethnology) and the Consortium of Museums (managed by the Generalitat Valenciana). Interest is more than justified for Jarque, home politically committed, sticker to a càmera i to a pipe, is one of the great Valencian photographers, National and international recognition vastly for a vast production of images that collect different manifestations of Valencian popular culture. The parties, the architecture, gastronomy, the landscapes of orchard or mountain, the people who inhabit them… All this was documented in snapshots made between the end of the 60 and end of the 80 what, beyond artistic beauty - they have, and a lot - treasure high ethnographic value. Are imperfect, Some are stained and grated, but all overflow group memory.
Two shots characterized Jarque's photographs: the high contrast that virtually made gray and manipulation disappear, In the good sense of the word. For him, manipulation was inherent in photography, because he is not only It is shooting, First thinking s’ha. If the result did not match what he had thought, cut, colored and traced the image Sense Cap shame. In the sample Jarque. The camera and life You will find rural Spain of unpaved streets, where women go mourning and covers the bun and men carry beret and plowing with oxen and horses. You will see how the Albufera were before, the orchard and the Malvarrosa, populated with humble houses beaten as if they were ships (Antonieta, Tarzan…). You will breathe life in the street: Women by selling on the sidewalks (La Tabaquera in Plaça Sant Jaume), people sunbathing at the foot of the Saus Las Arenas, men smoking, plowing or fishing… You will find popular festivals celebrations —Theme that worked a lot— like the corpus, THE botargues of Villar del Archbishop and Bétera basils, and Franco's Spain, —qblack uasi for the high contrast of photographs— full of phalanx symbols, military, crucifixes, mantilles and raised hands.
Besides two hundred original photographs of a Valencia that no longer exists, on the second floor, es they unfold An audiovisual, personal belongings and a kind of roulette seurighe where different heads and bodies can be combined, a fallera's face with a rhetor's cassock, for example. Materialization of the humor and irony of what Jarque gave. You will also find drawings he made during the brief period of time that passed inside the prison, already in democracy, to refuse to deliver their camera during a rally. Between grilles he had no camera and there was no other than delivering the artistic drive by drawing to his imprisoned companions while watching TV, They sewed or tattoos were made. Great defender of the subjectivity of photography, critical and combative, Jarque shows us the Museum of Ethnology Valencia that was. AU
