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by Jordi Bernadó (Photographer), Juan José Lahuerta, Giovanna Calvenzi (Text)

Bernad creates projects to express his keen eye and spirit. Despite his having explored American spaces and cities in Japan and Europe, Bernad has always maintained his focus on Spain, attentive to the evolution of its landscape and the dcor of its interiors that is linked to very different worlds. He casts an amusing look at the details that only he is able to see and makes them distinct. His images turn reality into a theatre set. The boundaries between the real and the unlikely become blurred. Beyond Bernad's vision of the superficial world and his form of satire, one is given a glimpse of his inspired personality on this guided tour of the 20th-century playwrights who have brought the senseless and the ridiculous to the stage, even the grotesque, as embodied in the writings of Cervantes and the paintings of Goya. And behind this cumulus of symbols, there is the depiction of absurdity. Look inside: http://issuu.com/actar/docs/wellcome/

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jordi Bernadó is a photographer based on Barcelona letters.
He studied architecture at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) and was a member of the editorial team of the Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme magazine of the Official College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC) from 1990 to 1999. His photographic work is linked to architecture and travel, two basic constants in his creative career. In this sense, Bernadó has declared that he came to photography by chance, since this discipline serves as a means to better decode, define and understand architecture, urban planning and the relationships between the elements captured in each image. However, his photographs incorporate large doses of narrative, contrasts and irony, seeking to surprise the viewer.
His interest in landscaping has led him to work with the panoramic horizontal format, common within the tradition of the pictorial landscape, but which in Bernadó’s work extends to break the harmony, showing a clear influence of cinematographic language. These large format images are taken from a completely frontal point of view, offering a calm and objective visual language, where the staging is secondary. In many cases, his photographs are presented in contrasting pairs so that the viewer can discover a third image from the relationship between the first two.