Miguel Oriola
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| Miguel Oriola | |
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| Born | 1943 Alcoy, Spain |
| 💀Died | 2020 Madrid, Spain2020 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Spanish |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Photography |
| Notable work | Actus, Alphaville, POPtografía, Sketch 5, Sketch 7 |
| 🌐 Website | oriola.studio |
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José Miguel Oriola Soler (Alcoy; Spain, 1943 – Madrid; Spain, 2020) was a Spanish photographer of the so-called 'Fifth Generation' and a key figure in the 1970s and 1980s photography in Spain.
Biography[edit]
Born in the mediterranean city of Alcoy (Alicante, Spain) in September 1943, Oriola studied fine arts and music and entered a photographic studio for the first time in October 1959 thanks to José Vicens, who had developed part of his career as a photographer during the time of modernism in Alcoy. He worked for three years at Foto Studio Vicens, where he learned photography and lighting before moving to Madrid (Spain) in the 1960s. Once in the capital, he studied dramatic art and began working as a freelance photographer.
A true pioneer, visionary and always at the forefront of photography[1], he combined his personal artistic work with fashion and advertising photography and was included among the young Spanish photographers of the 'Fifth Generation' along with Joan Fontcuberta, Juan Ramón Yuste, Pablo Pérez- Mínguez, Jorge Rueda, Eduardo Momeñe and Pere Formiguera, among others, with whom he published his work in the magazine Nueva Lente. This marked a before and after in the history and development of photography in Spain, and Oriola collaborated regularly not only with his images but also with articles and diverse texts.
Since his first exhibition at Galería Mecenas in Madrid in 1971, he displayed his work in countless shows, both in national and international galleries. In 1974 he was awarded the popular photography Negtor prize for for his series “Horizonte for you” and was featured on the cover of ECOS magazine.
From 1977 he started to dedicate his time to teaching, directing photography courses and seminars, and in 1980 he founded and art-directed POPtografía, a magazine which core aim was to "stimulate the photographic appetite".
In 1987 he joined the prestigious EFTI (School of Photography and Image Techniques) in Madrid as a lighting professor and was director of the International Fashion Master, also teaching classes in the Professional and Advanced Photography courses for more than three decades.
He worked from his studio located on Madrid's Serrano street until 1997, which was a turning point-year in his life. He left on a trip around Europe on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and rode all the way New York (USA). Upon his return to Spain he decided to abandon the fashion photography world to exclusively focus on his personal work and teaching.
His commercial photographs were published in many specialised national and international newspapers and magazines, such as Zoom, Photovision, Progresso Fotografico, Nueva Lente, El País Semanal, Vogue, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Penthouse, Interviu, Tendencias, Novedades, Vanidad and a long etcetera.
Likewise and for many years, he worked on innumerable commissions for the advertising campaigns of El Corte Inglés, Spain's most popular department store, and was the author of a large number of album covers of the best-selling Spanish artists at the time, including albums by Luz Casal, Rosendo, Siniestro Total, Marta Sánchez and Monica Naranjo.
In 2002, the 5th edition of the PHotoEspaña festival[2] included the retrospective “El Eterno Mismo” as part of its programme and displayed all of his work to date, and in 2015 he was awarded the Quijote Prize by the AFOCAM Association of Professional Photographers.
In 2021, his hometown of Alcoy has paid him tribute with the exhibition “Miguel Oriola: self-defence photographs”, which was displayed simultaneously at Fundación Mútua Levante and IVAM CADA, with the collaboration of the AFA Alcoi.
Oriola’s body of work is part of public and private collections as well as many museums around the globe, featuring the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Madrid, Spain), the Alcobendas Art Centre (Madrid, Spain), the Fundación Lecasse de Arte Contemporáneo (Alcoy, Spain),the Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna, Austria), the Canon Photo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan / Amsterdam, Netherlands), the Nordic Arts Center (Helsinki, Finland) and the Marugame Hirai Museum 丸亀平井美術館 (Japan).
Awards[edit]
- Premio Negtor (1974)
- Premio Quijote AFOCAM (2015)
Photo Series[edit]
Pensat i fet (1975)
Acciones (1980)
Tómalo Caliente (1980)
Paisatges Propis (1981)
Portraits (1984)
Bestiario (1986)
Photomaton (1987)
The Private Collection (1990)
Anthropology (1990)
Days At Sea (1991)
Historia de la Edad Media (1997)
Victims (1999)
Phenomena (1999)
Soul (2000)
Picasso (2003)
Weep Typology (2003)
Evidence Museum (2004)
El Bosque de Rutherfurd (2005)
Back To The Moon (2006)
Días Extraños, la película (2006)
A propósito de Mary Suzanne (2006)
Estigia (2007)
American Night (2007)
Prayers (2007)
November Suite (2007)
La Tierra de Hokusai (2007)
Without News (2007)
Insomnia (2008)
Continuum (2008)
Fauna (2008)
Aliens (2008)
Humanitas (2009)
Modelo 10.000 (2009)
Mantis (2009)
Eclipse (2009)
De-Construction (2009)
ADN (2009)
Transitas (2010)
In (2011)
Shake The Dog (2012)
Memorandum (2013)
Nothing Personal (2013)
Wake The Serpent Not (2013)
Alphaville (2013)
Sketch 5 (2015)
Sketch 7 (2016)
Non-Insane Automatism (2016)
Actus (2017)
No Name City (2018)
Last Days On Earth (2020)
Publications[edit]
- POPtografía. Ed. Miguel Oriola (1980)
- Jewish Roots in Spain. Ed. Iberia Líneas Aéreas (1988)
- Anthropology. Posada del Potro de Córdoba. Ed. Ayuntamiento de Córdoba (1990)
- Cuatro Direcciones: Fotografía Contemporánea Española 1970-1990. Ed. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1991)
- Calima. Compañía de danza Blanca Calvo. Ed. Comunidad de Madrid (1993)
- The Private Collection. Ed. Miguel Oriola (1995)
- El Eterno Mismo. Ed. EFTI (2002)
- American night. Ed. Blur Ediciones (2007)
- Aliens. Ed. LAB PROJECT (2008)
- Diccionario de fotógrafos españoles – Del Siglo XIX al XXI. Ed. La Fábrica, AC/E Acción Cultural Española (2013)
- Alphaville. Ed. Miguel Oriola (2014)
- Sketch 5; Conversaciones con Amy Norton Kulik. Ed. Miguel Oriola (2015)
- Sketch 7. Ed. Miguel Oriola (2016)
- Fotofobia #10. Ed. UFCA (2016)
- Actus. Ed. Miguel Oriola (2017)
- No Name City. Ed. Miguel Oriola (2018)
- 25 Años: Colección Pública de Fotografía Alcobendas – Nuevas Adquisiciones 2013-2017. Ed. Centro de Arte de Alcobendas (2018)
Exhibitions (selection)[edit]
1971
Galería Mecenas, Madrid (Spain)
1975
Canon Photo Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
1976
Galería Tau, Barcelona (Spain)
1977
Fotografía Española, Varsovia (Poland)
1978
Centro Cultural Juana Mordó, Madrid (Spain)
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arlés (France)
1979
Galerie Contrejour, Paris (France)
Canon Photo Gallery, Ámsterdam (Netherlands)
1980
Galería Spectrum, Zaragoza (Spain)
The Minoris Gallery, Londres (UK)
"Nude1980" Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
1981
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (UK)
1984
Galería Spectrum, Zaragoza (Spain)
1985
Galería Image, Madrid (Spain)
Casa de la Cultura, Alcoy (Spain)
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid (Spain)
1986
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (Spain)
1987
Kultura Etxea, Vitoria (Spain)
1988
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (Spain)
1990
"Anthropology" Posada del Potro, Cordoba (Spain)
"Anthropology" Museo Municipal, Tenerife (Spain)
1991
"Cuatro direcciones" Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (Spain)
Galería Spectrum, Zaragoza (Spain)
1992
Tarazona Foto, Zaragoza (Spain)
1993
"The Private Collection" Galería Railowsky, Valencia (Spain)
Arte Español Contemporáneo, Marugame Hirai Museum 丸亀平井美術館, Kagawa (Japan)
1995
Muestra Internacional de Arte de Mojacar, Almería (Spain)
ARCO, Galería Spectrum Sotos, Madrid (Spain)
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (Spain)
"Borealis" City Art Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki (Finland)
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (Denmark)
1996
Galería Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza (Spain)
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg (Sweden)
ARCO, Galería Spectrum Sotos, Madrid (Spain)
1997
Galerie Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse (France)
1998
PHotoEspaña 98, EFTI, Madrid (Spain)
1999
ARCO, Galería Spectrum Sotos, Madrid (Spain)
2000
ARCO, Galería Spectrum Sotos, Madrid (Spain)
La Galerie Vrais Rêves, Lyon (France)
PHotoEspaña 2000, EFTI, Madrid (Spain)
2001
Galería D'Museo, Caracas (Venezuela)
2002
Retrospective "El Eterno Mismo" PHotoEspaña 2002, EFTI, Madrid (Spain)
Galerie du Temple du Goût, Nantes (France)
2003
"Weep Typology" Galería Railowsky, Valencia (Spain)
"The Agnostic Age" Real Sociedad Fotográfica, Madrid (Spain)
"The Agnostic Age" Total Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA), Seoul (South Korea)
2004
"Weep Typology" Galería Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza (Spain)
2005
Galería Railowsky: 20 aniversario, Valencia (Spain)
"El Eterno Mismo" Galeria Torre Luzea, Zarautz (Spain)
"El papel de la Fotografia" Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (Spain)
"De imágenes, libros y cultura" Ministerio de Cultura, Exposición Itinerante (Spain)
2006
"Inhabitants" ANNTA Gallery, Madrid (Spain)
ARCO, Galería Spectrum Sotos, Madrid (Spain)
2007
"Mírame, Mírame" Museo del Traje, Madrid (Spain)
"Oculto" Fundación Canal, Madrid (Spain)
Bienal de Arte de Zaragoza, Galería De Arte Antonia Puyó, Zaragoza (Spain)
2008
Artista Residente Embajada Española, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
"Aliens" Ghaf Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
"Eclipse" Galería de la Unión Alcoyana, Alcoy (Spain)
2009
"Aliens" Casa Árabe, Madrid (Spain)
2010
"Mantis" Galería E8, Madrid (Spain)
"Mantis" Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus de Aranjuez, Madrid (Spain)
Madrid Foto, Galería Tatiana K, Madrid (Spain)
"Desubicados" Galería Tatiana K, Barcelona (Spain)
"Rostros" Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
2011
"De-construction" Galería Eva Ruiz, Madrid (Spain)
2012
"Mantis" Galería Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza (Spain)
"Mantis" Real Sociedad Fotográfica, Madrid (Spain)
2013
"Mantis" Palacio del Quintanar, Segovia (Spain)
2021
"Las Huellas de la Esperanza" PHotoEspaña 2021, Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid (Spain)
"Fotos en Defensa Propia" Fundación Mútua Levante, Alcoy (Spain)
"Fotos en Defensa Propia" IVAM CADA, Alcoy (Spain)
Photography Scholarship[edit]
The Miguel Oriola Fashion Photography Scholarship has been granted on an anual basis since 2019, to promote the development of a photographer who will be able to study an International Masters degree in Fashion Photography in Madrid’s EFTI (School of Photography and Image Techinques) free of charge.
With this scholarship, the renowned institution wishes to thank the photographer and teacher for his more than 33 years dedicated to teaching at their school, and his contribution to the training of many of the current generations of photographers.
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