Portraits of a round trip, Madrid. Nueva York by Javier Porto at Mondo Galeria

Mondo Galeria presents a solo exhibition of the photographer Javier Porto, who was a point of connection between the city of New York and Madrid in those days when Andy Warhol and Pedro Almodóvar were protagonists of a well agitated night (and day) life. “La Movida” has exist as an artistic movement? Was there ” a Pop”  active group? Or  is History what compels us to classify some trends of each era into a bag of soft candies?
 
Grace Jones, Alaska, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlos Berlanga. The photographs by Javier Porto (Madrid, 1960) are, today,  documents of a period in which what seemed most important was to destroy History. Some 25 snapshots in which we can find the similarities, distances and connections between two cities that have always desired and repudiated each other, seduced and envied one another, almost like a misunderstood love story.
 
To get rid of the past by creating a new present was the way that slowly but at variegated steps Postmodernity was built.
The early 80’s  seem so far away today, and however, might be the beginning, the root of our current state  in which the spectacle seems to be the normality.

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