The self-taught visual artist, admired by the poet Joan Vinyoli, and labelled, poetically, as an “hermeneutist of chiaroscuro”, Eduard Olivella (Barcelona, 1948) is part of a new generation of photographers who endorse an aesthetic, theorised and artistic approach to documental photography. Teacher and critic, Olivella has developed a pure photography with echoes of the German school of the 1930’s that centres on capturing the atmosphere of interior spaces. Space and architecture, human geography and urban planning are fused in works with a social and collective slant“The protagonist of this exhibition,” writes art critic Vicenç Altaió, “is an I surfeited with images that takes as a measure the ability to be shade in the image, between the velvet depths of light, being born on celluloid and the somnolence that erases the film from reality.”
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