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Mapfre Foundation in Madrid hosts the first retrospective of photographer Dayanita Singh India

The exhibition includes 140 images ranging from photojournalism to a photo

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The Cultural Institute of the Fundación Mapfre offers from tomorrow until May 2 the first retrospective of photographer Dayanita Singh India (New Delhi, 1961), an exhibition that brings together 140 images ranging from photojournalism to a very personal picture of the author. Curated by Carlos

Gollonet, the exhibition includes works by Dayanita Singh from 1989 to the present and realize the realities of contemporary India. In this route, shown in chronological order, is observed, the curator said today, a "constant evolution of the artist reveals a search for self."

"His early works are steeped in tradition documentary photography in them is reflected the reality in India. Then the artist goes to a photo reflection of his own person, "Gollonet.

The commissioner recalled his early works: I Am as I Am (" which depicts girls in school until the age of majority but show the usual stereotypes of their country but a private world and interior clean and bright ") and Mona (" which portrays the life of a eunuch on behalf of the British magazine The Times then never saw the light but it was published in book form along with Mona's letters to the editor in which mixes reality with fiction and tells the marginalization of the eunuchs ").

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accommodated the late 90's, Dayanita Singh left these issues to return its focus to the well-off society in India and wrote a little-known portrait of that part of society view their homes and after the post-colonial influence. "The characters are presented as they want to be seen and the photographer emphasizes the value of the image as a document over the image as art," said the commissioner.

Ladies of Calcutta is the title of this series, gathered in the book Privacy, which is followed by other works that dominate the empty places or suspended moments, like 'or Away Closer. Here the artist explores concepts of "more abstract" said Gollonet.

The transition to color comes with Blue Book and Dream Villa, his most recent. They are the protagonists industrial landscapes and surreal city in which they sensed human presence.

The exhibition also shows a series of books down in small format, Sent a letter, detailing his travels in images of India and the artist makes two copies, one for herself and another for your companion on every occasion .

"A ticket to freedom"
Dayanita Singh came to this presentation to the media in which confessed to feeling "run" which caused him to see his name in large letters at the entrance exposure. The artist described as "exquisite symphony" this show, which introduced the world. "This is why I do, indeed, feel vulnerable," he admitted.

The artist also stated that throughout his career has been "incredibly lucky and blessed to have found a ticket to freedom in the world of photography."

Currently his interests are not focused only the art but also the move "the music of Mahler or the writings of Italo Calvino ... all those universal aspects that photography allows me to express through their language he said.

Dayanita Singh said feels "free" to share the things that unite us as a "love or loss." "I'm willing to take the plunge and jump into the void to explore it," he said.

this photographer's work in India has been exhibited at institutions like the Brooklyn Museum and the Asia Society in New York also have been present in cities such as Berlin, Boston and Turin. In 2008 he was awarded the Robert Gardner Fellowship of the Harvard University Art Museums and the prestigious Prince Claus Award. Robinson