Meeting Graciela Iturbide, 79, legend of Mexican photography, is a great moment and a breath of fresh air.
A very small woman, slender, nervous, smiling, clinging to her cigarettes, she has the beautiful simplicity of well-bred people and the curiosity of adventurers.
This poet of the image was shown at the Rencontres d'Arles, a little at the Center Pompidou.
But the Cartier Foundation offers him, until May 29, his first French retrospective, “Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37”, in reference to the address of his studio in Mexico City, in the Coyoacan district, that of Frida Kahlo.
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His son, Mauricio Rocha, designed it as he signs the high and clear scenography of the Parisian exhibition.
On the ground floor of Jean Nouvel's building, his work of the last ten years, including his superb studies of cacti and exotic trunks held in place by protective threads with an abstract design.
In the basement, his legendary photos, this sensual way of dealing with reality.
All simply magnificent…
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