Video: Market reborn by Jorge Manes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Everything has its time. Even markets, which, it would seem, will always be in demand. But, nevertheless, everything flows, everything changes. And now the market in the Sala district of Barcelona has already ceased to exist. But the artist Jorge Manes with the help of a series of his works entitled Born Again gives him a new birth.
True, the birth is no longer in the form of a market, but in the form of an art gallery, created directly on the once crowded, and now empty, streets of this market, in its pavilions.
As a basis for his work, Jorge Magnes took photographs taken in this market back in 1963 by the Spanish photographer Joan Colom. This famous series of photographs called "Born" ("Birth") depicts the ordinary, everyday life of the market, people who worked here or came to skimp, different situations.
Well, Jorge Magnes gives this "Birth", excuse the pun, a new life, as evidenced by the title of his series of works "Born Again". In it, he transferred photographs of his predecessor in the form of paintings or posters to the empty walls of a nonexistent market.
Thus, he re-populated the area, returned to its streets people who left them several decades ago, and many have even died by now. But now they have again taken their place in their domain. Moreover, many of these paintings are painted on the boards of wooden boxes that remained in large quantities on the market after its closure. This once again emphasizes the atmosphere of the place. Former atmosphere.
This creative initiative from Jorge Magnes is somewhat reminiscent of "Faces of the City" by artist JR. But Manes, unlike his colleague, returns the history of the city to the city, and does not create it on the basis of the faces of modern residents of the metropolis.
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