Juan de Sande

Juan deSande - S/t

Técnica: Color photography, glycee print on dibond, Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra

Biografía del Artista: Juan de Sande lives and works in Madrid. He is a photographer, although he first started out as a painter. Recently he has also experimented in the field of sculpture. His photographic production is made up of series of photographs, usually in large format. The work reflects on image and artifice, reality and contemporary creation, human absence and presence, through architecture, nature and more recently interior spaces. Music, literature, painting and sculpture, which are very present in his life, also feed his creative work. His photos are the result of a long, complex and systematic process of image construction in the studio, using digital techniques applied to the original photograph, which he obtains with medium and large format analogue cameras. He began his exhibition career in the late 90s, and has since participated in some of the most prestigious photography and visual arts exhibitions and competitions in Spain, such as the Pilar Citoler, L'Oreal, Purificación García and AENA awards, the Endesa and Caja Madrid Generación 2000 grants and the PhotoEspaña festival. He has received commissions for photobooks and photography magazines, such as Matador, and his work has been present at different editions of fairs such as ARCOMadrid, MadridFoto, ParisPhoto, PhotoMiami and Pulse Miami, among others. His work is part of important Spanish public and private collections, such as the Juan March Foundation, the Alcobendas Collection, the Community of Madrid, the Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, the Masaveu Collection or the Club Matador Collection, as well as private collections. He is included in the Dictionary of Spanish Photographers, published in 2014 by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, as well as in other publications and catalogues.