Murcia, un carril-bici que no lleva a parte alguna. Es una de las fotos de Ben Roberts en "The Gathering Clouds" (Ben Roberts) 20minutos.es
El paisaje absurdo del ‘ladrillazo (español)’ visto por un fotógrafo inglés
- Ben Roberts recorrió España desde 2007 documentado la crisis de la construcción.
- Las fotos muestran las incongruencias de un paisaje explotado por la especulación.
- La exposición ‘The Gathering Clouds‘ está ahora en Cardiff.
Es el paisaje absurdo del ladrillazo español retratado por el fotógrafo inglés Ben Roberts en su serie The Gathering Clouds(Los nubarrones que vienen), que se exhiben en la Third Floor Gallery de Cardiff (Reino Unido).
Entre 2007 y 2009 Roberts recorrió España para documentar losefectos escénicos de la burbuja inmobiliaria. Previamente se documentó observando imágenes de satélite en las que era posible discernir el crecimiento absurdo de las macro urbanizaciones promovidas por las ansias especulativas.
“The Gathering Clouds” by Ben Roberts
18 June – 24 July 2011
All images copyright Ben Roberts
The Opening Night Preview: Friday, 17 June 2011, 7pm.
When Ben Roberts commenced photographing The Gathering Clouds in 2007, Spain was experiencing an expansion of its economy and building industry in a scale previously unheard of. Of a visit to Granada, Roberts notes “the city had exploded beyond the confines of its motorway ring road, and new housing developments were appearing on the fields and mountainsides”. This building boom was already unsustainable, with millions of planned homes being built for a waning number of potential buyers, but the economic crisis nailed the collapse of the sector. By 2009 Spain was in the grip of a deep recession, unemployment had shot up to one of the highest levels in Europe, and abandoned housing developments sprinkled the suburban landscape.
vía Third Floor Gallery Cardiff – Exhibitions – Next: Gathering Clouds by Ben Roberts.
Click here to download the press release (pdf, 390Kb).
Thank you to the School of Art, Media and Design of the University of Wales, Newport and Otley Brewing Company for supporting this exhibition.