[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row disabled_on=”on|on|on” module_id=”exposiciones” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” disabled=”on” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”23px” text_line_height=”1.4em” background_color=”#f6f6f6″ text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]\u00a1Celebramos contigo nuestro 50 aniversario!<\/strong><\/span> Hoy lunes 3 de noviembre, KBr abre \u00fanicamente de 15:00 h a 19:00 h.<\/strong> Carlos P\u00e9rez Siquier<\/strong> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”#f6f6f6″ custom_padding=”25px|25px|25px|25px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_font=”DM Sans|700|||||||” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font=”DM Sans||on||||||” custom_margin=”||35px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n From February 26 to May 24, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_blurb title=”Discover the exhibition” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_link_text_color=”#e4031f” icon_font_size=”25px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The career of Carlos P\u00e9rez Siquier, which spans more than six decades, is defined by an intuitive, committed gaze and a pioneering role within the Spanish artistic avant\u2011garde. From his native Almer\u00eda, he developed a free and poetic body of work, far removed from the trends dictated by major cultural centers such as Barcelona or Madrid. After founding the Agrupaci\u00f3n Fotogr\u00e1fica Almeriense (AFAL) in 1950 and, a few years later, its namesake magazine together with Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Artero, the artist played a key role in modernizing photography in a nation isolated and paralyzed after the civil war and subsequent dictatorship. He also gave visibility to an entire generation of photographers who were only then beginning to be recognized as artists.<\/p>\n Starting in 1956 and influenced by Neorealist cinema, P\u00e9rez Siquier embarked on his first major project, La Chanca<\/em>, in which he documented with dignity the daily life of a humble neighborhood in Almer\u00eda. In the 1960s, he became a pioneer in the use of color, which allowed him to expand his visual language and reflect the social and cultural transformation brought about by tourism and development in the province of Almer\u00eda. This shift is especially evident in his series The Beach<\/em> and Traps for the Unwary<\/em>, where he combined documentary photography with a critical eye and a Pop aesthetic. His final projects, Encounters<\/em> and La Brise\u00f1a<\/em>, more introspective in tone, encapsulate his entire trajectory and reveal how the extraordinary resides within the everyday.<\/p>\n Curator<\/strong>: Eva Vives (Fundaci\u00f3n MAPFRE).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”La Chanca in Black and White” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_link_text_color=”#e4031f” icon_font_size=”25px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n When Carlos P\u00e9rez Siquier began to take an interest in the neighborhood of La Chanca in 1956, while walking near the Alcazaba in his native Almer\u00eda, this quarter was not a source of curiosity for other artists. The series La Chanca<\/em> remained largely unknown to both the public and critics until 2001 \u2014previously, only a few small groups of images had been reproduced\u2014 meaning it took more than fifty years after the photographs were taken for the work to be properly recognized. P\u00e9rez Siquier did not conceive the project through a social lens, but rather as a representation of life itself. Influenced by the aesthetics of Neorealist cinema, he was deeply drawn to the daily lives of the people who inhabited that humble, peripheral, and impoverished part of the city with dignity, hope, and joy, where time seemed to stand still.<\/p>\n These images capture the identity of the inhabitants of a dispossessed Spain under dictatorship: women fetching water from the fountain due to the lack of running water, or washing clothes there; children running through cobbled, muddy, and unsanitary streets; a wedding procession; the walls of small whitewashed houses coated by their own residents; and the mouths of caves where the poorest of the poor lived.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”AFAL” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_link_text_color=”#e4031f” icon_font_size=”25px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Agrupaci\u00f3n Fotogr\u00e1fica Almeriense (AFAL), founded by P\u00e9rez Siquier together with Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Artero, quickly became a benchmark of Spanish photographic avant garde during the Franco dictatorship. P\u00e9rez Siquier also served as editor in chief of AFAL, the group\u2019s bimonthly photography and cinematography magazine published between 1956 and 1963. Distancing itself from the dominant pictorialism of the time, AFAL emerged with the intention of bringing together the work of any Spanish photographer with a modern approach, and it united many of the country\u2019s most important photographers, including Ramon Masats, Oriol Maspons, Gabriel Cuallad\u00f3, Joan Colom, Francisco Onta\u00f1\u00f3n, Francesc Catal\u00e0 Roca and Xavier Miserachs. It also enabled these artists to establish dialogues with some of the most innovative tendencies on the international scene at a time when Spain was largely isolated.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”Color” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_link_text_color=”#e4031f” icon_font_size=”25px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Starting in the 1960s, P\u00e9rez Siquier was among the pioneers who made a definitive shift to color \u2014an approach met with rejection by many of his peers\u2014 which allowed him to explore new forms of expression and expand his visual repertoire with the extraordinary break represented by the Informalisms<\/em> series. In the 1970s, his photographs of beachgoers scattered chaotically along the Almerian coast in the wake of the tourism boom proved so far ahead of their time that they took years to be recognized by the photographic community, yet they eventually became his most popular works. His color photography not only documented a significant social transformation, but also demonstrated P\u00e9rez Siquier\u2019s ability to innovate and adapt to new trends, combining technical precision with poetic sensibility and subtle humor.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.25.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” background_color=”#e4151f” custom_padding=”9px||9px||true|false” custom_padding_tablet=”9px||9px||true|false” custom_padding_phone=”|9px||9px|true|true” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled=”on” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Venta online de entradas a partir del 31 de mayo<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.fundacionmapfre.org\/en\/art-and-culture\/exhibitions\/kbr-photography-center\/carlos-perez-siquier-barcelona-2026\/” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Buy your joint ticket” button_alignment=”left” button_alignment_tablet=”left” button_alignment_phone=”center” button_alignment_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”15px” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_bg_color=”#e4151f” button_border_color=”#e4151f” button_use_icon=”off” custom_margin=”20px|||48px|false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”20px|||48px|false|false” custom_margin_phone=”|||0px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_color__hover=”#e4151f” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_bg_color__hover=”#ffffff” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”on|desktop” button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_border_color__hover=”#ffffff”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_blurb title=”Materials” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_line_height=”1.5em” body_link_text_color=”#e4151f” custom_margin=”35px||-15px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” icon_font_size=”25px” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/documentacion.fundacionmapfre.org\/documentacion\/publico\/es\/bib\/186322.do” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Descarrega’t les claus de l’exposici\u00f3 i els textos de sala” button_alignment=”left” button_alignment_tablet=”left” button_alignment_phone=”center” button_alignment_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ custom_button=”on” button_text_size=”13px” button_text_color=”#ffffff” button_bg_color=”#e4151f” button_border_color=”#e4151f” button_icon=”||divi||400″ custom_margin=”20px|||48px|false|false” custom_margin_tablet=”20px|||48px|false|false” custom_margin_phone=”|||0px|false|false” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_color__hover=”#e4151f” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_bg_color__hover=”#ffffff” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”on|desktop” button_bg_enable_color__hover=”on” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” button_border_color__hover=”#ffffff”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_blurb title=”Materials” use_icon=”on” font_icon=”||divi||400″ icon_color=”#969696″ icon_placement=”left” image_icon_width=”25px” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ header_level=”h2″ header_font_size=”18px” body_font_size=”13px” body_link_text_color=”#e4151f” custom_margin=”35px||||false|false” icon_font_size=”25px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
\nEntre el 3 y el 9 de noviembre<\/strong> te invitamos a visitar gratuitamente
\nnuestras exposiciones de Madrid y Barcelona<\/p>\n
\nEl resto de la semana el horario s\u00ed es de 11:00 h a 19:00 h.<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/kbr.fundacionmapfre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/siquier-768×519-1.jpg” alt=”Carlos P\u00e9rez Siquier La Chanca, Almer\u00eda, 1960 Copia posterior, plata en gelatina \u00a9 P\u00e9rez Siquier, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2026″ title_text=”Carlos P\u00e9rez Siquier” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.5″ custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.5″ text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.3em” custom_margin=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
La Chanca, Almer\u00eda<\/em>, 1960.
Later print, gelatin silver print.
Fundaci\u00f3n Mapfre Collections
\u00a9 P\u00e9rez Siquier, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2026<\/p>\nP\u00e9rez Siquier. Fundaci\u00f3n Mapfre Collections<\/h1>\n