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Cristina García Rodero: Lalibela
Catalog of the exhibition held at the Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain, June 1-July 30, 2017.
ESPANA OCULTA PB
When Spanish photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero went to study art in Italy, in 1973, she fully understood the importance of home. Yet her time abroad formented a deeper interest in was happening in her own country and, as a result, at the age of 23, Garcia Rodero returned to Spain and started a project that she hoped would capture the essence of the myriad Spanish traditions, religious practices and rites that were already fading away. What started as a five-year project ended up lasting 15 years and came to be the book España Oculta(Hidden Spain) published in 1989. At 39 years old, Garcia Rodero had managed to compile a kind of anthropological encyclopedia of her country. The work also captured a key moment in Spain’s history – with Spanish dictator Franco dying in 1975, and the country commencing a period of transition – something that would come to have a huge effect on the way the nation’s cultural traditions and rites were experienced and performed from then on.
Festivals & Rituals of Spain
The Spanish take their celebrations - fiestas - seriously, whether putting on another self for Carnival or proving one's mettle in the face of bulls. This book reveals the public and private Spain meeting in the fiesta, along with centuries old rituals of pagan origin and solemn religious rites.
Cristina García Rodero
Cristina García Rodero reúne en Transtempo más de cien fotografías en Galicia durante tres décadas de viajes por distintas zonas: los carnavales de Laza, Xinzo de Limia o Viana de Bolo, el desembarco vikingo de Catoira; "a rapa das bestas" de Sabucedo, procesiones, peregrinaciones, romerías y ofrecimientos son algunos de los temas que la fotógrafa trata con su habitual intensidad y sobriedad.
The Stranger, the Tears, the Photograph, the Touch
This book is an expanded, larger-format, and more highly illustrated version of a smaller book released by CEU Press in 2011. It presents and comments on an extensive set of religious and personal photographs and illustrations that depict people along with divine beings or absent loved ones. First, Christian examines the periodic appearances of Christ-like strangers in the Spanish countryside through the vision of a woman in La Mancha in 1931. Then he considers the long history of images with liquids on them not only for early modern Spain, but also in the United States, Italy and France in the 1940s and 1950s. The third and most extensive chapter addresses the iconography of illustrated dep...
