Ramón Masats. Visit Spain. Exposición en Avilés

Exhibition of Photography by Ramón Masats

The Photography Room of the Niemeyer Center hosts the exhibition “Ramón Masats. Visit Spain”, which collects the journey that the photographer made between 1955 and 1965 traveling through the geography of Spain with his camera, under the curatorship of Chema Conesa, in an exhibition produced by the General Subdirection of Visual Arts and Contemporary Creation.

Ramón Masats had a personal obsession to portray the clichés with which official culture blessed the patriotic values of this time characterized by the end of autarky in the Francoist dictatorship, the opening designed by the government with the creation of the Ministry of Information and Tourism (1951), and the National Tourism Plan (1953).

Between folk rituals, castizos, and religious customs, Ramón Masats, awarded with the National Photography Prize in 2004, documents and portrays the reality of a country trapped in material poverty, laminated in the social and fiercely tied in its spiritual bond. In this way, the personality of Masats builds a suggestion beyond the mere optical reality of the photographic image, and the final interpretation is left to the visitor.

Schedule : Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 19:00 h. Extraordinary openings: Monday and Tuesday 16 and 17 February; 30 and 31 March; 6 and 7 April; 4 and 5 May.

Price : general: 5 €; reduced (for members of Club Cultura Asturias and Pasaporte Cultural): 4 €

In the framework of the exhibition, 4 Art Routes are offered, directed by the Cuéntame un Cuadro company

Dates : Sundays 8 March, 5 and 19 April, and 10 May, at 11:30 h. Learn to look at photography with the same attention and curiosity with which we stand before a painting. Because a photograph is not simply a capture of reality. In each image there are decisions: the framing, the exact moment, black and white, format, distance, arrangement of characters. It is the photographer who chooses which fragment of the world he places before our eyes and, above all, how he wants us to look at it.

Duration : 60 minutes approx.

Price : general: 10 €; reduced (for members of Club Cultura Asturias): 8 €; children from 0 to 12 years old: free.