The work of Ricard Terré is inscribed within that of a generation which helped to modernize the photographic language in Spain. Together with artists such as Miserachs, Maspons, Masats, Pomés, Ontañón or Cualladó, among many others, he broke with the tradition, distancing his work from a single perspective and championing the multiplicity of individual visions available to photography.
Ricard Terré used this medium to expand his ironic sensibility, his sense of humor, and to build a portrait of his surroundings which would serve him as explanation of the human condition through an impeccably elegant, empathetic and sensitive eye. His eminently personal technique, defined by bold framings, marked contrasts and a close proximity to his models, turns him into a theorist with a subjective view in search of the soul beyond the face or the belief beyond the rites. This display explores the work of the photographer through 125 photographs shot between 1959 and 2009.
The Catalan photographer Ricard Terré (1928-2009) lived in Vigo, studied at the Escuela de Altos Estudios Mercantiles in Barcelona and entered the artistic world as a painter and an illustrator. He started his career as a photographer in 1955. His most famous work was carried out between 1955 and 1960. In the decade of the ’60s he gave up photography. After 20 years of silence, he retook his trade in the 1980s and his work merited him ample recognition. In 2008, he was awarded the Bartolomé Ros prize for his professional career by PHotoEspaña.
