… delighted to see one of my favourite works once again getting a showing across the other side of the planet … this time in Valencia Spain as part of the “Rostros – The Sea of Cultures” exhibition hosted by Valencia Photo Fest.
‘Alf’ is just one of the forty nine portraits by forty five artists from twenty six countries around the Globe that are now on the walls of two historic beautiful buildings in the centre of Spains third largest city. The exhibition was ‘inaugurated’ in front of large crowds at the two venues on Monday … the October Contemporary Culture Center and the Public Library of Valencia … both wonderful locations.
Very gratified to have my ‘Alf’ image “100 Years & 3 Weeks – Alf Neal OAM” amongst the 49 works chosen from last years massive 270 portraits shown at the Art-Icon “Faces” exhibition in Arles France.
Luckily I have a good photographer friend who moved home to Valencia from the United States fairly recently and he took time out to send me some images of my displayed portrait … Thank You, Michael Robinson Chavez ! ( … he’ll likely tell me orf for this ,,, but he’s won a Pulitzer … twice 😉 ). Curator at ValenciaPhoto, the lovely Vilma Dobilaitė, chipped in with a few images too … and was a pleasure to communicate with.
In case you can’t actually get to Valencia (I can’t 🙁 ) before the exhibition closes on the 1 st of September you can see the entire collection of the 49 portraits here … https://valenciaphoto.es/rostros-el-mar-de-culturas/ (My “100 Years & 3 Weeks – Alf Neal OAM” sits at #8 on the list … and the page does have an English language option :- ) . )
Massive Thanks … Michael, Vilma … Danila and Slavica from Art-Icon … and, of course, the Neal family from Yarrabah Queensland.
Images © … Alf Image © Brian Cassey … Valencia images … ©Michael Robinson Chavez, ©Vilma Dobilaitė
