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The artist about his work:

CARLOS SAAVEDRA

"People have so many stories to tell and I want to be able to draw something more out of a face"

BIO

Carlos Saavedra, or Carli, as his friends call him, recalls that during his childhood in Cartagena he always felt a profound attraction towards his grandfatherā€™s antique Polaroid. Every time someone took his picture he longed to be the one behind the lens.

Now twenty-four, he is a professional photographer whose main interest is in portraits. 

Carlos has worked with various Colombian magazines, and his photographs achieved the editorā€™s selection in 2012ā€™s National Geographic contest and have been exhibited at the Getty Images gallery in London. In December 2011 he was selected by the Inter-American Development Bank to exhibit The Daughters of Huitaca in Washington, and the series will be shown in BogotĆ” in February of 2012. But the most important exhibit has already passed. Carlos returned to each one of the communities that he visited during his trip to show the photographs, and at the end gifted them to their protagonists. That way he created a true exchange, a relationship. ā€œSome of the women were quite taken aback,ā€ he says, ā€œnot everyone is accustomed to seeing themselves reflected so profoundly.ā€

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Solo shows

 

2012

  • CINAMETEQUE DISTRICT JORGE ELIECER GAITAN THEATER, Bogota- Colombia

  • INTERAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, Washington DC- USA

  • COLOMBIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON DC, Washington DC- USA

  • HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF CARTAGENA-PALACE OF THE INQUISITION-Cartagena-Colombia

  • EN MEDIO DE GALLERY, Bucaramanga-Colombia

  • MADREDEUS GALLERY, BogotĆ”-Colombia

2011

  • DIRTY HARRY/FOTOMODA LOV-BogotĆ”-Colombia

  • LA SALLE COLLEGE THESIS PRESENTATIONS-BogotĆ”- Colombia

  • GETTY IMAGES GALLERY (IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP)- London-UK

2009

  • ITINERANTE LA SALLE COLLEGE,  BogotĆ”-Colombia

2008

  • BOGOTA THEATER FESTIVAL EXHIBIT, BogotĆ”-Colombia

Group shows:

 

 

 

 

2013

  • "Next Stop Italy" Gabriele Basilico, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Mario Cresci, Renato D'Agostin, Andrea Galvani, Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice, Bianca Sforni, Franco Vaccari, Nino Migliori, Francesco Nonino, Paolo Ventura- Phillips Collection, Washingon, DC-USA

  • "Under the Bridge #2" Vincen Beeckman, Nina Berman, Michel Couturier, Ronny Delrue, Frank Depoorter, Philippe Herbet, MichaĆ«l Matthys, Francesco Nonino, Lore Rabaut, Jean Revillard, Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, Nadia Shira Cohen, Mirjam Siefert, Jacques Cerami Gallery, Couillet -Charleroi, Belgium

2012

  • "Luce vera - vera luce" - Weber & Weber Contemporary Art, Torino

  • "Videoart Yearbook 2012ā€ - Department of Visual Arts, Chiostro di S.Cristina, University of Bologna. (a cura di Barilli, G. Bartorelli, A. Borgogelli, P. Granata, S. Grandi, F. Naldi)

  • "Italo Zannier. La sfida della fotografia", Photographs from the collection of Italo Zannier, PARCO Pordenone Arte Contemporanea, Pordenone -Italy

2011

  • "TRA. Edge of Becoming", Museo Fortuny, Venice (a cura di Daniela Ferretti, Rosa Martinez, Francesco Poli, Axel Vervoordt)

  • "Sulla fotografia", Rassegna "Centrale Fotografia", Rocca Malatestiana, Fano (a cura di Luca Panaro) "Images from Italyā€ - Italian Photography from the Archives of Italo Zannier in the Collection of the Fondazione di Venezia. Nordiska Museet, Stockholm.

  • "Padiglione Italia - Emilia Romagna, 54Ā° Biennale d'Arte di Venezia", Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia (a cura di Vittorio Sgarbi)-Italy

2010

  • "Il furore delle immaginiā€. Fotografia Italiana dall'archivio di Italo Zannier nella collezione della Fondazione di Venezia " - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia-Italy

  • "In difesa" - Fondazione 107, Torino-Italy

  • "Come un soffio dell'anima" - Weber & Weber Contemporary Art, Torino-Italy

2009

  • "Visione Video" - Art Verona, Verona-Italy

  • "Re-reading the image. Photography as a storage of meaningā€ ā€“ Prague Nadace Biennale 4, Praga-Chech Republic

  • "Mementi d'essereā€ ā€“ Weber & Weber Contemporary Art, Torino-Italy

2008

  • "Videoart Yearbook 2008ā€ ā€“ Dipartimento di Arti Visive, UniversitĆ  di Bologna, Galleria Civica, Trento (a cura di R. Barilli, A. Borgogelli, P. Granata, S. Grandi, F. Naldi)

  • ā€œLight Fluxusā€ - Scalamata Gallery, Venezia-Italy

2007

  • "Never Been to Houston" - a cura di Jon Rubin and Aurora Picture Show. Lawndale Art Center, Houston -USA

  • ā€œEx voto. Un poeta e 57 artisti per una grazia ricevutaā€ - Weber & Weber Contemporary Art. Museo Diocesano, Trento-Italy

  • ā€œKafka. L'infinita metamorfosi di un processoā€ - Weber & Weber Contemporary Art. Saluzzo (TO) ā€œItalia 1946-2006 dalla ricostruzione al nuovo millennioā€ - a cura del C.R.A.F. (Centro Ricerche e Archiviazione della Fotografia), Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto-Canada

1999

  • ā€œBy the Seaā€ - Pingree Gallery, East Hampton (NY), USA 

  • "Exteriors" - Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah (NY), USA 

 

 

 

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