• Expositions
  • Photographes
  • Concours photo
  • Interviews
  • Chroniques
  • À propos
  • Nous contacter
  • Sitemap
  • Menu
  • Les lus
  • Publier


Images by Colombian photographer Leo Matiz on view in Havana

Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Copyright: Fundación Leo Matiz
Expositions du 11/6/2010 au 10/7/2010 Terminé

Centro Hispanoamericano de Cultura Calle Malecon 24 Cuba

For almost sixty years, Colombian photographer Leo Matiz (1917-1998) depicted the town of Arataca in his works, the same town Gabriel Garcia Marquez used as a source of inspiration in his novel “ Cien años de Soledad” ( A hundred years of Solitude.) He was born in the same year Russian bolcheviques were changing their history. During the 1930´s, in Mexico, Matiz knew and took photos to oustanding artists such as painters David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Frida Kanlo, Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Maria Félix, a diva of the Mexican movie, and composer Agustín Lara. Then, he lived in Venezuela for 40 years, where he was an official photographer at the Miraflores presidential palace. In 1959, he depicted images of Fidel Castro during his visit to Venezuela after Batista´s dictatorship was brought down. He was also caricaturist, painter, movie photographer, actor, publisher and founder of galleries and medias.

Thanks to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Leo Matiz Foundation and the Hispanoamerican Culture Center, the 40-black and white images exhibition “Macondo visto por Leo” will be on view at the Havana Malecon from July 12 through.Such images were taken by Matiz between 1930 and 1990 and was open by his daughter Alejandra, who is also at the helm of the Foundation.“Garcia Marquez´s characters included in his novel “Cien Años de Soledad” and those of Leo Matiz have gathered in this exibition. The presence of this exhibition in Havana is a fullfilled dream,” said Alejandra. This exhibition has been presented in Canada, Belgium, Japan, Mexico and Dominican Republic.

Considered the most important Colombian photographer of the 20th century, author of over a million photos and important graphic publications such as Life, Harper Magazine, Look, Reader Digest and Mexico Cinema, Leo Matiz is considered as “ the “guard of shadows” in the history of images throughout the continent due to his magistral use of light contrast. Using this expressive resource, Matiz delved into the testimony of political figures and the every- day misery.Thus, he became a privileged and active witness of the 20th century in Latin America.

Copyright: Fundación Leo Matiz


Quatre Regards sur la Photographie de Mode
Emmaüs, une communauté. Photographies de Ludovic Bourgeois.
11e saison photographique de la Sarthe
exposition de photographies
Jan Gulfoss - Last Works
Les dérivées de Johann Van Aerden
« AMOUR, UNE ODYSSÉE SIBÉRIENNE » de Claudine Doury
Exposition Égéries de Pierre Cardin

© Actuphoto.com Actualité photographique

Samedi 31 mai 2025 - 146 connectés - Suivez-nous

  • Photographes
  • Photographers
  • Fotografos
  • Fotografi
  • Fotografen
  • Peintres
  • Artistes
  • Architectes
  • Acteurs
  • Chanteurs
  • Modeles


Top