Alberto García-Alix
Born in 1956 in León (Spain), ALBERTO GARCÍA-ALIX lives and works in Madrid (Spain). He is one of the greatest Spanish photographers. Alberto García-Alix is a key figure of the creative avant-garde from 1970 to 1986, which, in Madrid, contributed to ousting the avatars of the Franco dictatorship and its forty years of censorship and muzzled silence. A Poet, rocker, and anarchist matador in post-Franco Spain, Alberto García-Alix draws his inspiration from his immediate entourage, “the people before his very eyes”. Kamel Mennour and Alberto García-Alix have been working together...Read more
Works
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2022
Luis Bailón en Callao, 1986
Autoretrato con letras chinas, 2007
Red de arana, 2007
Carmencita china, 2007
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2014
Autorretrato sombra china, 2007
Camino del Golgota I, 2003
Exhibition view, Electricity Museum, Lisbon, 2013
Exhibition view, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2008
La china Patino, 2007
La muneca, 2007
Mi un pelo en la cabeza, 2007
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2014
El paraiso de los creyentes, 2010
Nacho Vidal
Exhibition view, MUSAC, León, 2015
Elena Mar, odalisca en mi patio, 1987
Monologo con un cuervo, 2011
El gordo y Kitty, 1991
Gemelos, 2014
Exhibition view, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, 2014
La chaqueta de Edi, 1986
La Gata, 2001
El impostor I, 2014
Crucifixion, 2012
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2014
Un instante de eterno silencio, 2010
Exhibitions & News
Alberto García-Alix, Lo que queda por venir
Past exhibition
8 December 2022 — 28 January 2023
Mennour, 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6
Alberto García-Alix, François Morellet, Traverser la nuit
Past exhibition
12 March — 29 August 2022
MAAT, Lisbon
Alberto García-Alix, Intime & Autofictions
Past exhibition
1 October — 21 November 2021
Festival du regard, Cergy
Group show, Le Modern Style
Past exhibition
21 May — 21 June 2020
Viewing room
Alberto García-Alix, Twelve Photographers
Past exhibition
21 September 2018 — 13 January 2019
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Group show, Mask
Past exhibition
28 June — 28 July 2018
Alberto García-Alix, Un Mundo Traicionado
Past exhibition
18 October — 22 November 2014
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Group show, L’image pensée
Past exhibition
27 June — 25 July 2013
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Alberto García-Alix, Far from home
Past exhibition
3 April — 10 May 2009
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6