La Morada del Hombre

The Foto Colectania Foundation and the Suñol Foundation present La morada del hombre, an exhibition of photographs from the Martín Z. Margulies Collection curated by Régis Durand. The show explores the way in which Man inhabits the world and includes over 165 photographs and videos by 50 artists. This is the first coproduction between the Foto Colectania and the Barrié foundations, and is sponsored by Banco Pastor. It will be open through June, 2012. La morada de hombre, curated by Regis Durand, explores human life as it is part of the world-life as it appropriates the world, changes it, and finally leaves its mark on the reality of emotions, life itself, work, or nature. The show includes some of the most important names in international photography, such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Lee Friedlander, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, Andreas Gursky, and Cuerno de Roni. The reach and singularity of this exhibition made it possible for it to be presented, for the first time, in two different institutions that share a vision of art and are complementary to each other in the cultural life of the city: the Foto Colectania Foundation (Julián Romea, 6) and the Suñol Foundation (Passeig de Gràcia, 98). Research in the extraordinary Martín Z. Margulies Collection has made it possible to produce a show that probes into different aspects of the topic, on the basis of three areas of articulation. Part I, "To Build, To Inhabit: Cartographing Territories" investigates the way in which we want to be in the world and our appropriation of it, reflection on the marks we leave on it, as well as our hopes and fears. Part II, "Being in the World," analyzes the ways in which human beings measure themselves against the reality of life/work, the presence of others, and the reality of collective social space. And, finally, Part III, "Flows, Signs, and Symbols," reveals how photographers seek to capture some of the mutability and evanescence of appearances, the challenge of photography itself. Martín Z. Margulies is passionate about art. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania¿s Wharton School of Business and a successful South Florida luxury real estate developer for the past 35 years, he began to build his collection in 1976 with the acquisition of a work by Isamu Noguchi, and currently holds one of the world¿s most important collections of contemporary American and European art.