FLAMENCO IN IMAGES, EVOKE THE DIVINE. WORKSHOP WITH ANTONIO PÉREZ
Duration: 1 weekend
Dates and time: September 28-30 Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Spots: 12
Registration: €120
 
Flamenco, one of the most complex, evocative and magical manifestations of the popular culture of the 20th century, has interested and creators from all disciplines have looked to it.

This workshop proposes an approach to the vision of flamenco through photography and its authors, emphasizing the most narrative and contemporary works that will help us to present our real practices with rehearsals or performances.

In the first part, we will take a historical tour around the image of flamenco and its stereotyped weight to continue with more current authors, Brassai, Colita, Julio Ubiña, Steve Kahn, José Lamarca, Gilles Larrain, Isabel Muñoz, Ruven Afanador, Tato Olivas…

In a second part we will carry out technical, form and composition reviews for the personal development of each work or project. Looking for how to break planes and borders before the stage space or how to escape from it to build another look uncontaminated by the lighting and scenography itself.

The Biennial will collaborate with the workshop, offering students facilities to photograph in rehearsals and presentations and a map of places and activities where participants can also work on the topic.

The workshop includes a guided tour of the Tato Olivas Exhibition in Cobertura Photo,
“La Academia de Amor de Dios. 25 años”


Antonio Pérez (Tarifa, 1970). Photographer, professor in the Communication, New Media and Journalism program at CIEE and regular collaborator in various educational centers, art galleries and public institutions, such as Cobertura Photo or UFCA, as well as NGOs and foundations related to international cooperation and culture. With higher studies in Art History (University of Seville, Spain) and Fine Arts (University of Cologne, Germany), his work has been shown in individual and group exhibitions, in prestigious publications and has been recognized by different national and international awards.

Since 2007, he has been developing different visual proposals around flamenco, seeking new narrative and conceptual lines. Taking as reference his family environment and the proximity of the southern Flemish territories. He collaborates with different publications, including “Paseo Flamenco” from Japan and the publications of the traveling exhibition “Vidas Gitanas”.
Along these lines, some of his proposals are:

- 2015:   “Gypsy Lives”, collective. Foundation Institute of Gypsy Culture and Spanish Cultural Action (AC/E) Spanish cultural center. Miami. USA- 2014:  “When images speak.” Kid Ailack Gallery, with the collaboration of the Cervantes Institute of Tokyo. Tokyo. Japan.- 2013: “24 hours at the crosses of Lebrija” MARUWA Foundation. Tokyo. Japan. His work around flamenco is developed between Japan and Spain.
See interview with Antonio Pérez on Canal Sur.