‘Bajo esta luz que arrastra mi mirada a las sombras’, the selection of photographs by García-Alix that arrives at Boca del Calvari Museum

Boca del Calvari Museum in Benidorm is putting together its next exhibition, which in this case will be dedicated to photography and will house the work of one of the most important figures in our country in this field, Alberto García-Alix (León, 1956). ‘Bajo esta luz que arrastra mi mirada a las sombras’ is the title of the exhibition, which opens this Friday and is made up of a reduced selection from the exhibition ‘From where there is no return’, which the creator made in 2007 for the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía.

The Councillor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, has pointed out that “for Benidorm, it is a luxury to be able to show a little piece of the work of Alberto García-Alix”. Specifically, a compendium of that exhibition that had two hundred photographs and that reviewed his work from 1976 to 2007, images “that do not follow any chronological order, but that introduce us to the intimacy of the photographer and bring us closer to his universe at the time in which they were captured, thanks to the autobiographical nuance that García-Alix always imprints on his work,” explained the councillor.

Ana Pellicer has announced that the exhibition can be visited this Friday, at an opening that will be at 12.30 pm and in which the artist himself will participate, and until next November at the Museu Boca del Calvari.

Likewise, the person in charge of Historical and Cultural Heritage has invited “anyone interested in photography or art in general” to visit it, as “it is a unique opportunity to discover the work of this National Photography Award winner, a creator who, from his raw and inimitable black and white, has portrayed many personalities of our country, making at the same time the social portrait of an entire era, starting from the generation of the ‘Movida madrileña’ until today”.

About the author
Alberto García-Alix is ​​an artist who hardly needs an introduction. Born in León in 1956, he is primarily a photographer, but also an audiovisual creator, writer and editor. He held his first exhibitions at the beginning of the eighties at the Moriarty and Buades galleries (Madrid) and Portafollio Gallery (London).

Throughout his career, his photographic and audiovisual work has been shown in spaces such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Les Rencontres Internationales d’Arlès, the Parisian Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Museo Casa de la Fotografía in Moscow, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), and the Museo Nacional del Prado, among many others. His works can be found in major art collections around the world, such as the German Deutsche Börse or the National Funds of Contemporary Art in France.

Among the many awards he has received are the National Photography Award (1999), the Photography Award of the Community of Madrid (2004), the PHotoESPAÑA Award (2012), and the ENAIRE Foundation Career Award 2022, the year in which he also received the PHotoEspaña Audience Award for the exhibition, “Fantasies in the Prado”, an exhibition in which he creates his imaginary based on the art gallery that houses the Prado Museum, using the technique of multiple photographic exhibitions on analogue film.

In addition, he has been a ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France’ since 2012 and in 2019 the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts.

As an author, he has published a dozen photography books and various audiovisual works where narrative and image complement each other. Among them is, ‘De donde no se volví’, a 40-minute film creation acquired by the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía. He was the director and founder of the cult magazine ‘El Canto de la Tripulación’ (1989-1997), and co-founder of Cabeza de Chorlito (2011-2023), a publishing house under which he has published some of his works: ‘El paraíso de los Creyentes’, 2011; ‘Diaporamas’, 2012; ‘MOTO’, 2015; the trilogy of the magazine ‘Motorcycle Family Circus’ (2016-2021) and ‘Archivo Nómada (2023)’.