THE LAST DELIVERY

THE LAST DELIVERY
THE LAST DELIVERY
Rafael Blanco (Nankayshan)
From 26 Feb to 26 Apr 2015

ESPACIO INICIARTE CóRDOBA



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In the late 1960s, the writer Julio Cortázar with The Devil's Drool, the film director Michelangelo Antonioni with Blow-Up and the photographer Duane Michals with his "photo sequences" all began charting a new course, where a photograph was no longer just a frozen fragment of reality but something that had the potential to tell us a story, inviting us to use our imagination and become its narrators. This led to the construction of the fictional photo narrative and to photographers using their imagination to weave stories from various images. With the credibility ascribed to all photographic truth and the inclusion of philosophical, social and human values that are difficult to convey through images, a favourable environment was created for a new concept of photography and a new photographic discourse to emerge.

More recently, the work of photographer Joan Fontcuberta showed us a series of believable, ironic fictions designed to deceive at first glance—a deception which, once detected and understood, forces us to rethink our notion of truth and photographic veracity. Can fiction contain a truth? Can fiction become reality? Can it become reality through photography?

This project is a daring proposal given its element of photographic experimentation and its absurd flirtation with the assumption of an event that may never come to pass. But while we wait to see if it materialises, we can at least think about and reflect upon it.

La última entrega is not just about photography; it is also about communication, about our human drive to rise above solitude and our desperate quest to overcome it, all as a metaphor for disappearance.

The exhibition catalogue features an essay by Jesús Micó entitled "Invisible, Poetic 'Letters to Theo'..."

 

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Rafael Blanco (Nankayshan)

Sabadell, 1980

He moved with his family to Priego de Córdoba in 1985. After graduating from the School of Arts and Crafts of Granada, he went on to study Fine Art at the universities of Altea, Salamanca, Mexico and finally Granada, where he received his BFA. Although his work mainly focuses on photography and the digital image, he also experiments with painting, street art, video art and installation. His intense, emotionally-charged creations challenge the delicate balance between everyday reality (social, cultural and political) and thought (rational and irrational).

Blanco regularly accepts professional assignments to design advertising for the fashion, rural tourism and olive oil industries. He worked for Fundación Siglo as a documentary photographer at the 3rd Castile-León International Arts Festival, and he was named second runner-up in the photography category of the 9th Visual Arts Competi-tion of Granada. Blanco has participated in projects such as Paredes hablan. Intervención urbana. Cuarenta años de pintadas desde Mayo del 68 and D-Mencia 2008, and he is a co-founder and coordinator of Nemoartfestival (Priego de Córdoba). His work has been exhibited at Espiral, the University Arts Forum (Mexico City), Ikas-Art (Bilbao), Loop (Barcelo-na), Cromática, the 3rd Youth Painting Biennial (Orense), Video en las aulas (Seville) and In & Out (Caja Rural de Granada), as well as in Salamanca, Altea, Córdoba and Málaga, among other cities.



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