DEL VIENRES 1/7 ON SUNDAY 4/9
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
In 2019, for the first time, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos elected a photojournalist as an academic. His name is Jose Aleixandre and has been photographing Valencia since the eighties for the press, especially for the daily Levante-EMV where he worked during 32 years. The riuà of 1956, the arrest of Miguel Ricart, Cañizares' furious crying at San Siro after losing the Champions League (again), defensive constructions of the civil war, the Cicciolina visiting the Na Jordana fault in 1988 bare chest, cockfights in the defunct La Gallera, Franco's removal from the Town Hall Square, the portrait of Joan Fuster… everything has been captured by this veteran Valencian photojournalist who exhibits at the Bancaja Foundation 54 black and white and color photographs dated between 1981 y 2015 in what is a visual synthesis of the last thirty years of the city's history. Photojournalism has been elevated to the category of art thanks to the push of institutions such as Wold Press Photo—which periodically exhibits the best world photojournalism in the Chirivella Soriano—, he MuVIM —dedicating an exhibition to Centelles—, The Boat —doing the same with El Flaco— and now Bancaja in a well-deserved tribute to a first-rate photographer who is also a renowned historian of photography in the Valencian Community. S.M.
