M. Barceló (fotografías de J. M. del Moral)

The black-and-white and colour photographs of the photographer Jean-Marie del Moral constitute an intense experience that has lasted over fifteen years, from 1985 until this year, between the Majorcan painter Miquel Barceló and this Franco-Spanish photographer, who has been travelling from Europe to Africa to visit him at his different studios. All these photographs, which could be described as a travel notebook, with the workshops in Butles, Chaumont, Majorca, Mali as ports of call and with temporary visits to Palermo, for example, represent the route of a painter with its twists and turns, its queries and its quests, traces of memory and places and time. Besides, the photographs portray in detail the universe, the objects, the particulars that might seem insignificant to an unobservant visitor, but that are in fact essential to the Majorcan artist’s imaginary world. The exhibition, which will comprise some eighty large-format photographs by Jean Marie del Moral. It will be articulated around series whose titles depend on the place and the year they were taken: Avenue de Breteuil 1985, Cúpula Barcelona 1988, Farrutx 1987-1988, Gao 1988, Segou 1991, Pays Dogon 2000, Buttes Chaumont 1989-90, Opera Comique 1989, Palermo 1998, Les Rairies 1999-2000, Lanzarote 2002