Roger Grasas Showcases the Conquest of the Desert by Brick and Neon in ‘Min Turab’
Roger Grasas Showcases the Conquest of the Desert by Brick and Neon in ‘Min Turab’
Roger Grasas presents in Barcelona and Madrid ‘Min turab’, his photobook, published by RM, in which he collects his work on the new landscapes that have been created in the Arab Emirates.
After its presentation in Arles, Roger Grasas presents the book format crystallization of his work ‘Min turab’ on Wednesday the 13th in Barcelona and Thursday the 14th in Madrid. He will be accompanied by the curator Marta Dahó and Ramón Reverté, from the RM publishing house, at La Central in Barcelona. The event will be at 7:00 p.m. At the presentation in Madrid, which will take place at La Fábrica on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Grasas will be accompanied by the editor Gonzalo Golpe and Lea Tyrallová, from the RM publishing house.
‘Min turab’ is a project that dissects the culture of the nouveau riche in the Arab Emirates through urban landscapes or in the omnipresent desert. A work full of dazzling, contradictory and humorous images.
© Roger Grasas
The itinerary of Roger Grasas through the Gulf countries has something of a 19th-century exploration. ‘Min Turab’ —which in Arabic means «from the earth»— aims to record how a landscape cracks and tears and a new one is imposed, sweeping away the previous one.
For some years now, certain points on the planet have been obscenely vying for the highest levels of extravagance, spectacularity and environmental absurdity, fueled by petrodollars.
Roger Grasas’ vision of these new urban centers in their unbridled development has to do with a slightly different positioning: that of the outskirts, the edge, the periphery or the alley. Each and every one of the images in this book, to a greater or lesser extent, point to and reflect a point of no return, an alteration that not only annihilates certain views from a landscape perspective but, much more importantly, certain ways of life.
© Roger Grasas
On the other hand, you can still enjoy the exhibition that Shasha R. Gregor, that is, Rogrer Grasas’ alter ego, is exhibiting at El Pàrquing (Ctra.De Santes Creus, 31. Els Pallaresos. El Tarragonès. Tarragona) his project ‘Beagle 2.0’ in which he plays with the creation of virtual landscapes made with images from Google Street View, virtually commemorates the trail of the journey that Darwin made around the world between 1831 and 1836 aboard a galleon of the Royal English Navy.
Roger Grasas (Barcelona, 1970) has a degree in Philosophy (U.B.) and a degree in Photography (U.P.C.). Since the late 90s he has been documenting the urban and interurban landscape of the entire planet with a cryptic and reflective gaze, focusing especially on the transformation of postmodern societies. The experience of travel constitutes the core of his method of reflection and visual production, a vital experience understood by the author as artistic production in itself.
His personal work especially investigates the category of that which is “strange” within the framework of a highly constructed and technified world. Thus, the role of technology and the alienation of the human being within the framework of digital and consumer society are key elements in the discourse of projects such as ‘Strange Day’ (2000-2010), ‘Atenea’ (2012) or ‘Min Turab’ (2009-2016). Sociopolitical themes such as globalization and philosophical concepts such as difference or hyperreality are also common places in his works. He has exhibited in galleries in Spain, France, the Netherlands, El Salvador, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
Roger Grasas presents in Barcelona and Madrid ‘Min turab’, his photobook, published by RM, in which he collects his work on the new landscapes that have been created in the Arab Emirates.
After its presentation in Arles, Roger Grasas presents the book format crystallization of his work ‘Min turab’ on Wednesday the 13th in Barcelona and Thursday the 14th in Madrid. He will be accompanied by the curator Marta Dahó and Ramón Reverté, from the RM publishing house, at La Central in Barcelona. The event will be at 7:00 p.m. At the presentation in Madrid, which will take place at La Fábrica on Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Grasas will be accompanied by the editor Gonzalo Golpe and Lea Tyrallová, from the RM publishing house.
‘Min turab’ is a project that dissects the culture of the nouveau riche in the Arab Emirates through urban landscapes or in the omnipresent desert. A work full of dazzling, contradictory and humorous images.
© Roger Grasas
The itinerary of Roger Grasas through the Gulf countries has something of a 19th-century exploration. ‘Min Turab’ —which in Arabic means «from the earth»— aims to record how a landscape cracks and tears and a new one is imposed, sweeping away the previous one.
For some years now, certain points on the planet have been obscenely vying for the highest levels of extravagance, spectacularity and environmental absurdity, fueled by petrodollars.
Roger Grasas’ vision of these new urban centers in their unbridled development has to do with a slightly different positioning: that of the outskirts, the edge, the periphery or the alley. Each and every one of the images in this book, to a greater or lesser extent, point to and reflect a point of no return, an alteration that not only annihilates certain views from a landscape perspective but, much more importantly, certain ways of life.
© Roger Grasas
On the other hand, you can still enjoy the exhibition that Shasha R. Gregor, that is, Rogrer Grasas’ alter ego, is exhibiting at El Pàrquing (Ctra.De Santes Creus, 31. Els Pallaresos. El Tarragonès. Tarragona) his project ‘Beagle 2.0’ in which he plays with the creation of virtual landscapes made with images from Google Street View, virtually commemorates the trail of the journey that Darwin made around the world between 1831 and 1836 aboard a galleon of the Royal English Navy.
Roger Grasas (Barcelona, 1970) has a degree in Philosophy (U.B.) and a degree in Photography (U.P.C.). Since the late 90s he has been documenting the urban and interurban landscape of the entire planet with a cryptic and reflective gaze, focusing especially on the transformation of postmodern societies. The experience of travel constitutes the core of his method of reflection and visual production, a vital experience understood by the author as artistic production in itself.
His personal work especially investigates the category of that which is “strange” within the framework of a highly constructed and technified world. Thus, the role of technology and the alienation of the human being within the framework of digital and consumer society are key elements in the discourse of projects such as ‘Strange Day’ (2000-2010), ‘Atenea’ (2012) or ‘Min Turab’ (2009-2016). Sociopolitical themes such as globalization and philosophical concepts such as difference or hyperreality are also common places in his works. He has exhibited in galleries in Spain, France, the Netherlands, El Salvador, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
