Los silencios del estudio – Jean Marie del Moral, ART PALMA BRUNCH
22 March - 30 May
Born to a Catalan mother and an Andalusian father, son of exiles, Jean Marie del Moral was born and raised in France. At the age of 9, he bought a second-hand Agfa Box at a street market, which revealed his passion for photography. Driven by this, in his adolescence, he worked as an assistant photographer and cultivated his technical mastery. With sports reports, he acquired quickness of vision and agility of execution, while later, with photojournalism for the newspaper L’Humanité, he captured the social with respect and humanism.
In 1974, his move to Montreal allowed him to travel frequently to New York to discover the abstract expressionist painters and the balance and silence of the photographs of Paul Strand and Walker Evans, among others. Later, he also traveled to the USSR, where he photographed the Bolshoi, its sets, costumes and dancers. In 1978, having settled back in Paris, he resumed his service with L’Humanité Dimanche and, that same year, had the opportunity to photograph Joan Miró in his studio. This was the starting point of his personal project: to portray the artist in his studio, in his “mental universe”.
In 1980, he extensively portrayed the sculptor Fenosa and, in the following years, the Spanish artists of the School of Paris and their later generation: Antonio Saura, Eduardo Arroyo, Miguel Ángel Campano, among others. In 1985, in Paris,he met and portrayed the Mallorcan painter Miquel Barceló, who he would continue to portray throughout his career in Barcelona, Mali and Mallorca. In 1990, in his studio, he photographed Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis and, the following year, Roy Lichtenstein and Richard Teixer, among others.
In 2000, he portrayed the Californian painter James HD Brown, in Mexico. In 2008, he photographed the painters Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi and Ai Weiwei in Beijing, for Madame Figaro. In 2013, he settled in Mallorca, where he continued his work portraying artists. His work portraying artists and studios has given rise to a multitude of publications in the form of books, magazines and documentaries. At the same time, Del Moral collaborates with numerous international magazines such as Vogue, Fortune, El País Setmanal, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Ambient, Elle, Town and Country, L’Expansion, Madame Figaro, Travel and Leisure, AD, Departures, ForbesLife, World of Interiors, ArtKunstmagazin, Holiday, Icon.
He has photographed approximately sixty commissioned books on the art of living and cooking, published by Éditions du Chêne, Flammarion, Thames & Hudson, Martinière, Actes-Sud, Aubanel, Assouline, Phaidon, Rizzoli and Harvill Press. In addition to his work on artists and studios, and his work for the press and publishers, he also carries out personal research into urban landscapes, nature, portraits and architecture; Photography is, at all times, the true protagonist, whatever the situation or the character in front of its camera; silence and visual coherence from the kind gaze are its foundations.
Opening hours:
Monday – Friday
10.00 – 18.00
