- Dates: It will be open to the public until December 15th and can be combined with the palace admission ticket
- Joint Project: It is part of a joint initiative by ACCIONA, PHotoESPAÑA and Spain’s National Heritage Agency to have top-level photographers portray Spain’s Royal Sites
The Fieldnotes. Javier Vallhonrat exhibition, which shows the photographer's personal vision of the fountains at the Royal Site of La Granja de San Ildefonso, is on display from today until December 15th at the Royal Palace of La Granja.
In this way, visitors can enjoy the exhibition’s 24 images in the context in which they were taken, while understanding more deeply the landscape and engineering value of the ornamental fountains in the palace, which celebrates its 300th anniversary this year.
“I worked immersed in this natural nook, awed by the music of the waters that descend more than a thousand meters from the peaks of Peñalara, Morete Hill or El Nevero, nourishing this ecosystem and powering the hydraulic system of the three-hundred-year-old gardens of La Granja de San Ildefonso,” the artist explained at the project’s launch in Madrid last June.
This photographic exhibition, which is part of PHotoESPAÑA, has already been displayed in Madrid's Jardines del Moro, where these photographs can still be enjoyed until September 29th.
COLLABORATION
This exhibition is part of the three-year project titled Fieldnotes, in which ACCIONA, PHotoESPAÑA and Spain’s National Heritage Agency collaborate to encourage major national photographers to highlight the natural heritage of Spain’s Royal Sites.
PHotoESPAÑA, Spain’s National Heritage Agency and ACCIONA already collaborated in 2022, when they jointly promoted the exhibition titled Sebastião Salgado and the Royal Collections: encounters around landscape photography, displayed at Madrid’s Royal Palace.
ACCIONA and PHotoESPAÑA have been collaborating since 2017 to jointly give visibility to an artistic look at the human impact on nature and natural resources.
Last year, ACCIONA sponsored the exhibition titled Edward Burtynsky: African Studies. In previous editions, ACCIONA and PHotoESPAÑA have also worked together on some emblematic exhibitions such as Isabel Muñoz's We’re Water (Somos Agua), which was displayed at the Lázaro Galdiano Museum and became one of the most visited exhibitions of the 2021 edition, and the S.M.A.R.T photographic and audiovisual exhibition, which was one of the main activities of the 2019 edition.
The collaboration between both entities was not interrupted in 2020, when they teamed up to promote the #PHEdesdemibalcón contest in the 2020 virtual edition, which revealed the nature emerging in urban environments emptied by the COVID19 outbreak.
PHotoESPAÑA is a photography festival that has been held annually in Madrid since 1998 and has set an international benchmark in the visual arts, for the quality of artworks and artists in the official section, as well as for the cultural initiatives it promotes to disseminate the cultural and aesthetic value of photography in society.