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Traveling Exhibits in 2008
As well as the temporary exhibits, the Foundation organizes several travelling Exhibits of its more outstanding works. Because of their dynamic and universal appeal, these are a valuable tool for the diffusion and promotion of art and culture. Altogether, 19 travelling exhibits were organized by Fundación Telefónica in 2008, reaching 446.384 viewers.
Visitors to Traveling Exhibits in 2008
Visitors to Traveling Exhibits in 2008
- Cubism and its Environment in the Telefónica Collection
Num. of visitors: 213.542
Visitors by location:
- Santiago de Chile (Sala de Arte de Fundación Telefónica):51.347
- Buenos Aires (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes):86.867
- Neuquén, Argentina (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes):75.328
- Emergentes (Up and coming)
Num. of visitors: 32.559
Visitors by location:
- Gijón (LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial):13.663
- Buenos Aires (Espacio Fundación Telefónica):6.987
- Lima (Centro Fundación Telefónica):11.909 - Transformaciones. (Transformations. Spain in the twenties in Telefónica’s Photographic Archives)
Num. of visitors: 15.407
Visitors by location:
- Sevilla (Casa de la Provincia):4.500
- Logroño (Casa de las Ciencias del Ayuntamiento):8.769
- Huesca (Salas de exposiciones de la Diputación):2.138 - Marín. Photography 1904-1940
Num. of visitors: 106.642
Visitors by location:
- Valencia (Instituto Valenciano de Artes Modernas, IVAM):99.642
- Badajoz (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, MEIAC):7.000 - Martín Chambi
Num. of visitors: 19.041
Visitors by location:
- Gijón (Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Educación y Universidad Popular):3.041
- Granada (Centro Cultural Caja Granada Puerta Real):16.000 - Ocho visiones: Distrito C (Eight Visions: District C)
- Valencia (Valencia Fotográfica 08):1.200 - Horacio Coppola
- Salamanca (Hospedería Fonseca):8.500 - Un día en Chile. Miradas simultáneas (A day in Chile. Simultaneous Glances)
- Temuco, Curicó y Talca:47.200 - Blip! Robótica del reciclaje - A/V: Automático-Versátil (Blip! Recycling Robot- A/V: Automatic – Versatile)
- Arequipa, Perú (Galería de Arte del Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano): 2.293
Total number of visitors: 446.384
Emerging
Produced by Fundación Telefónica, Spain for LABoral Center for Art and Industrial Creation in Gijón, this exhibit displays ten installations alluding to trends in the connection between art, science, technology and society. The creations are the reflections of twelve Latin American artists on the permanent revolutions in image technology, scientific research, contemporary art and the digital challenge. After Gijón, the exhibit began a traveling period, moving between Fundación Telefónica headquarters in Buenos Aires and Lima, and later on to Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Brazil in 2009. As of December 2008, Emerging had received 32,559 visitors.
Transformations
This exhibit, made up of 5 films and more than 115 photographs by the top professionals of their day, has become one of the most visited exhibits organized by Fundación Telefónica, with a viewing public of more than 160,000. This exceptionally unique exhibit, made up of photos from 1924 through the nineteen-thirties, presents a period in Telefónica’s history, and therefore, in Spain’s history. This goes from the years of massive installation of the first telephone service in Spain, to the years when progress arrived to many small towns, and transformed the urban landscape of Spain’s key cities. After appearing in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Granada and Gijón, in 2008 the exhibit continued to travel to Seville, Logroño and Huesca, with a total of 15,407 visitors.
Marín. Photography 1904-1940
Through more than 200 photographs, the exhibit spans 36 years of work by Luis Ramon Marín, a Madrid-born contemporary photographer and one of the great Spanish artists from the early twentieth century. The selected photographs belong to an archive of more than 18,000 negatives (mostly glass) which were preserved by the artist’s family. After its appearance at the Fundación Telefónica Exhibit Halls in Madrid in 2007, this work was on display at the Modern Art Institute of Valencia (IVAM), as well as at the Extremeñan and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC), with a significant viewing public of 106,642.
Martín Chambi
In 2008, Fundación Telefónica presented a retrospective on the work of Peruvian Photographer Martín Chami, the first indigenous Latin American photographer to be recognized internationally for adding a new social dimension to portraits and landscapes. Today his work is regarded as symbolic of an era and a culture –that of Cuzco. The exhibit was produced in cooperation with the Municipal Foundation for Culture, Education and People’s University in Gijón, and later, with the Cultural Center of Caja Granada, Puerta Real. It contains 105 photographs taken from the nineteen-twenties through the nineteen-forties: photos of people and scenes from the poorest sectors, indigenous peoples, as well as the most privileged social classes. A total of 19,041 visitors saw the exhibit in Gijón and Granada.
Eight Views: District C
Construction of a new Telefónica headquarters in Madrid –District C- was the subject for eight of Spain’s most distinguished photographers. The idea was to create an artistic, interpretive and subjective view of current events. This resulted in more than one hundred photographs taken in 2005 and 2006 by eight artists of varying sensibilities: Sergio Belinchón, Bleda y Rosa, Jordi Bernadó, Manel Esclusa, Aitor Ortiz, Xavier Ribas, Montserrat Soto, and Valentin Vallhonrat. Their diverse photographic styles and approaches range from introspective meditation to documentary description to formal reflection. After its appearance at the Fundación Telefónica Exhibit Halls in Madrid, in 2008 this project was presented at Valencia Fotográfica 08, where it was visited by 1,200 people.
Horacio Coppola
After its appearance at the Fundación Telefónica’s Center in Madrid, this retrospective exhibit on Argentinean photographer Horacio Coppola opened in Salamanca, at Fonseca Hall. Coppola is credited with introducing modern photography into Argentina. The collection, made up of 85 photographs and four documentary films, focuses on Buenos Aires, offering several views of the architecture, people, and port of this city, with even a few abstract components. By December 31, the exhibit had attracted 8,500 visitors.
A Day in Chile. Simultaneous Glances.
The cities of Temuco, Curicó and Talca hosted this exhibit in 2008. In it, a group of twenty Chilean and international photographers portrayed what they saw and felt in the different corners of Chilean territory. These situations gave 47,200 exhibit visitors a view of daily life in Chile. Sponsored by Fundación Telefónica and Fundación Vertical, the concept of the exhibit was to show the similarities and differences between life in small towns and life in the cities in Chile over the course of one day. The contents include The Power and Magic of imagenes; The Richness of Daily Life Hidden Behind Large Events; The Rough Character Myth of Native Peoples; Salvaging Beauty from Day-to-day Details; and Just One Day in One Country, among other things.
A/V: Automatic-Versatile
After its appearance at the Fundación Telefónica Center in Lima, this exhibit was presented in November at the U.S.-Peruvian Cultural Center Art Gallery in Arequipa, Peru. The exhibit consists of 26 experimental installations by young Peruvian artists, based on digital technology, electronic junk and urban performances involving self-contained technological units. It received 2,293 visitors in Arequipa.
Cubism and its Environment, Telefónica Collection
For the first time ever, this exhibit, which shows the public Telefónica's cubist art collection, has initiated a program of travelling exhibits which will visit Latin American countries over the next two years. The trip began in 2008 in Santiago, Chile and went on to the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then to Neuquén, Argentina ending up in Lima in 2009. The exhibit, which emphasizes the important role of Spanish and Latin American artists in this artistic movement, broke all visitor records in both countries where it was shown in 2008: 51,347 people in Chile and 162,195 in Argentina. As usual, Fundación Telefónica also developed a series of complementary activities for the public, aimed at enriching their understanding of Cubism.
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