Jose Quintanilla exhibition at the Unicaja Foundation: "Looking at a Landscape. Six Contemporary Visions."

Jose Quintanilla participates in the Unicaja Foundation exhibition "Looking at a Landscape: Six Contemporary Visions."

The Unicaja Foundation inaugurates its new exhibition, "Looking at a Landscape. Six Contemporary Visions," which brings nature closer to us and reflects on our environmental and social habitat through the eyes of leading audiovisual artists. The exhibition, which can be visited until February 14, 2025, at the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Cádiz, brings together the work of six of the most important artists on the current national art scene: Marc Ávila, José Guerrero, Linarejos Moreno, Eduardo Nave, José Quintanilla, and Saleta Rosón.

The presentation was attended by Rafael Valentín López, Head of Visual Arts at the Unicaja Foundation; curator Isabel Elorrieta; and photographer José Quintanilla.

The exhibition, comprised of 25 works, presents a wide variety of visions of the landscape, from the poetic to the political, inviting us to reflect on nature through their unique creations. Curated by historian and cultural manager Isabel Elorrieta in collaboration with Proyecto Argén, it offers a personal and original perspective by these creators who explore themes of social and political significance, broadening our understanding of nature and its role in contemporary creativity.

With this initiative, the Unicaja Foundation continues to bring art closer to the public through exhibitions that highlight the work of important artists. This exhibition reaffirms the relevance of the landscape as a recurring motif in art history and its radical relevance to the present.

A reflection on the space we inhabit.

The landscape, as a space we inhabit, transform, and create, is the focus of this new artistic project from the Unicaja Foundation in Cádiz. Through the photographic and creative lenses of six of the most relevant photographers on the current national art scene, the exhibition proposes a fusion of nature and art, landscape and photography.

The halls of the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Cádiz explore the landscape as a creative medium and artistic genre, capturing the visions of participating artists with works that, exploring the most innovative and exclusive current photographic techniques, embark us on a first-class artistic journey through lands and settings as distant as Normandy (France) or New Mexico (USA), passing through magical corners of Galicia or an enigmatic forest where, who knows, perhaps humans have never lived.

Thus, in his Cúmul series, Marc Ávila examines the interaction between nature and human intervention, fusing the organic and the artificial in landscapes that evoke a strange harmony. José Guerrero's After the Rainbow presents landscapes that oscillate between the real and the abstract, creating images that seem to belong to a world suspended in time. In On the Geography of Green, Linarejos Moreno investigates the relationship between nature and history, creating a work where the landscape becomes a living archive.

Normandie, Les Rivages du Débarquement, and Mulberry Harbour are among Eduardo Nave's projects in Normandy. Both reflect his contemplative and sensitive approach to the historic landscapes of the beaches where the Allied landings took place during World War II. José Quintanilla, in Et in Arcadia Ego, reflects the natural landscape altered by human action, which ranges from the beautiful, the sublime, and the picturesque, like a mirror of human degradation.

Finally, the series The Animated Forest, by photographer Saleta Rosón, invites us to delve into the landscapes of her native Galicia, a place steeped in mystery and evocation. Through her images, Rosón captures the essence of a landscape teeming with life and memories, where nature becomes a mirror of profound emotions.

The exhibition "Looking at a Landscape. Six Contemporary Visions" can be visited until February 14, 2025, at the Unicaja Foundation Cultural Center in Cádiz (Calle San Francisco, 26), Monday through Friday, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with free admission.