Helga de Alvear (Kirn, Germany, 1936) was recognized in 2010 as one of the 100 most important and influential in the world of art in the famous list "Power 100". In the same year opened on Visual Arts Center Helga de Alvear in Caceres Foundation, the exhibition "Margins of silence", a selection of 115 works from the Helga de Alvear Collection.
The April 26, 2014 the sixth exhibition of Visual Arts Centre Helga de Alvear Foundation, made from a selection of 104 works from his collection was inaugurated. The writer tells Roman poet Virgil in the Aeneid Aeneas crying in front of the drawings of the doors of the temple of Juno at Carthage, where scenes from the Trojan War were represented, exclaimed: "Is there anywhere on earth that It is not full of our efforts? Look Priam. Here merits have their reward; no tears in mortal things and moves the soul. "If there is a place in the world where the tears of things and human tears could mix your destination it would probably be the territory of the image. Perhaps it is for this reason that the shifting interstices between photography, document and object have become fertile ground for contemporary photography that explores both our way of being in the world, such as the status of the photographic medium itself.
Pictures provided by the Visual Arts Center Helga de Alvear Foundation. © images: the authors.
The April 26, 2014 the sixth exhibition of Visual Arts Centre Helga de Alvear Foundation, made from a selection of 104 works from his collection was inaugurated. The writer tells Roman poet Virgil in the Aeneid Aeneas crying in front of the drawings of the doors of the temple of Juno at Carthage, where scenes from the Trojan War were represented, exclaimed: "Is there anywhere on earth that It is not full of our efforts? Look Priam. Here merits have their reward; no tears in mortal things and moves the soul. "If there is a place in the world where the tears of things and human tears could mix your destination it would probably be the territory of the image. Perhaps it is for this reason that the shifting interstices between photography, document and object have become fertile ground for contemporary photography that explores both our way of being in the world, such as the status of the photographic medium itself.
Pictures provided by the Visual Arts Center Helga de Alvear Foundation. © images: the authors.
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