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Alberto García-Alix
Alberto García-Alix (Lleó, 22 de març de 1956) és un fotògraf espanyol i Premi Nacional de Fotografia l'any 1999.
Especialitzat en el retrat, les seves fotografies solen ser en blanc i negre, i les temàtiques giren entorn de les motos, els tatuatges, la música, la vida nocturna, els drogoaddictes, les estrelles del porno, i els presos. També destaquen els seus autoretrats i els nus.
Va estar molt lligat a la movida madrileña de la dècada de 1980, època de la qual han quedat els seus documents gràfics de personatges com Pedro Almodóvar, Rossy de Palma, Camarón de la Isla, Alaska, o Emma Suárez, entre d'altres.
Ha col·laborat en diversos diaris com La Vanguardia, El País, ABC, o El Mundo i revistes, i ha fet exposicions individuals i també col·lectives per tot el món.
El 2003 va començar a experimentar amb el format vídeo.
Biografia i trajectòria
[modifica]Va néixer el 22 de març de 1956 a Lleó. És el nét d'Antonio García Alix, ministre d'Instrucció Pública durant la Regència de María Cristina de Borbó|Regència de María Cristina i fill de Mercedes Pérez de Angüello, llicenciada en Història, i Carlos García-Alix, format a Nova York amb el doctor Ramón Castroviejo i cap del servei d'oftalmologia de l'hospital Puerta de Hierro de Madrid. Juntament amb el seu germà bessó Alfredo, és el major de cinc germans, essent un d'ells Carlos García-Alix, artista i autor de El honor de las injurias (2007), llargmetratge documental sobre Felipe Sandoval. L'any 1967 es trasllada a Madrid. L'any següent els seus pares li regalen una motocicleta, una de les seves grans passions i sobre les quals posteriorment editaria un llibre. Comença a fotografiar el 1976, i el 1986 decideix dedicar-s'hi de manera professional. El 1987 treballa amb Carlos Saura fent les fotografies de la pel·lícula "Eldorado", a Costa Rica.Tres anys més tard funda el col·lectiu i la revist
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Alberto García-Alix is a Spanish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1956.
How much does an Alberto García-Alix cost?
Alberto García-Alix's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 255 USD to 8,963 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is Alberto García-Alix's most expensive photography?
Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,963 USD for El Brazo de Ana, sold at Phillips London in 2010.Where can I see Alberto García-Alix's works?
Their work is currently being shown at Fundació Foto Colectania in Barcelona. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art have featured Alberto García-Alix's work in the past.Alberto García-Alix in the news
Alberto García-Alix has been featured in articles for e-flux, Art in America and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Paris Photo 2023 written for All About Photo in November 2023.Alberto García-Alix
Spanish photographer
Alberto García-Alix (born 1957) is a Spanish photographer from León, Spain. He won the National Photography Award in 1999.
His work has reached different countries and has been praised by publications such as Vogue, British Journal of Photography or Vanity Fair. A motorcycle and portrait lover, his Leica and Hasselblad cameras have immortalized important national and international artists. He has always been inspired by bikes, tattoos, music and the night.
He defines his portraits as a confrontation with his own model. Garcia-Alix is one of the leading figures of the movement known as La Movida Madrileña leaving behind well-known and powerful images of this cultural movement's youth. Among its members are some of his friends, who subsequently have become renowned personalities in different fields: Pedro Almodóvar, Rossy de Palma, Emma Suárez, Camarón de la Isla and many others. Often violently shameless, his works are recurrently raw and naked portraits. They are often considered to be overreactions but their expressive power and graphic effectiveness is undeniable.
García-Alix has devoted his entire career to black and white photography as personal and social documentation. Since his long stays in France and China in 2007 and 2008, he has been experimenting with video by documenting his images accompanied by his own texts and voice. An example of his video-art was showcased at it his exhibition De donde no se vuelve (2008) at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.
Awards and recognition
Exhibitions
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Books
- Autorretrato/Self-Portrait, La Fabrica Editorial, 2013.