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Q1 Please introduce yourself.
A photographer that began when he was fourteen years old, that became professional at eighteen and that during a long time worked in advertising, cinematography, flying and when he gets in the forty's he falls in love with the technology and became a sort of "guru" in company's like Erickson, Siemens and others all around the world. At that time he stops to do photography or anything artistic. At sixty he comes back to photography first digitalizing all the old photos and later beginning to take new photographs and having my first Exhibition at Galería Cayón in September 2006.
Q2 Could you tell us your career as an photographer? How did you start?
Worked for advertising agencies as Young&Rubicam, McCan-Eriksson, Lintas, Leo Burnet, Foote Cone Belding.... My personal work was published in magazines like "Camera" published at that moment by Alan Porter. |
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Right now I am in the artistic side of photography selling my work to private collectors or Museums.In my first exhibition 60 photographs were sold to the Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo "Conde Duque" and to the Museo Municipal de Historia.
Q3 What is the concept of your work?
I prefer to quote what other man said of my work: "Your photos are some sort of enigma for me. May be the most important thing in art it is when it is unclear where from the power comes.
There are no special thoughts; there are no unusual colors, poses, focuses, etc. Words can not be applied to your photos. It is simple and unexplained, like in good poetry.
I tried to understand, but failed. Sorry. You translate from the language of reality to the language of art." Eric Frenzler |
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| Morales-Mengotti worked for advertising agencies as Young&Rubicam, McCan Erikson, Lintas, Leo Burnet, Foote Cone Belding... Also for agencies, newspapers, magazines as El Paris, Triunfo, Cuadernos para el Dialogo, Camera Press.. Exibitions in the Feria International del Atlantico, El Trapezio, Galeria Cayon, Estampa... Articles about him in professional revues of different countries among them Camera edited by Alen Porter. Some of Mengotti's work is hold by privates collectores. The Museo Municipal de Madrid and the Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo "Conde Duque" bought 60 photographs from his last exhibition. |
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Q4 Could you introduce your typical projects or works?
My typical proyects in the seventy's were, by example "Ghosts" or "Madrid" or "Palancares", right now is my series "Painters" and a series of portraits of common people. All that you could see it in my site http://www.morales-mengotti.com/
Q5 Who is the most inspiring photographer or artist these days in your opinion?
When I was young Cartier-Bresson, Weston, Pen, Avedon, Sieff, Ed van der Elsken and right now painters as Hopper, Baltus, Antonio López and Damián Flores.
Q6 What's coming up in 2008? Any plans for exhibition?
I am preparing two exhibitions and two books about "Ghosts" and "Painters" with text from Juan Manuel Bonet, last Director from the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofía in Madrid. |
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