ALBERTO GARCÍA-ALIX WILL GIVE A WORKSHOP AT ES BALUARD

Coinciding with the celebration of the exhibition "Lo más cerca que estuve del paraíso", Alberto Garcia-Alix will give a workshop at Es Baluard on 13, 14 and 15 September from 4 pm to 9 pm. There'll be 12 pupils with advanced level of photography and its price is 180 Euros, with a 25 percent discount for members of Amics d'Es Baluard. 
  
The workshop will be an opportunity to share with one of the great masters of the image an area of debate and discussion about photography. During the three-day, García-Alix will exchange his work and experience with the participants, who must to bring their portfolio. Those interested in participating must send to the address jessica@al-liquindoi before August 30, his curriculum, 15 low resolution photographs taken by them and the reasons why they want to attend the workshop. The organization will reply on 1 September. 
  
"Lo más cerca que estuve del paraíso" features 58 pictures made  by Alberto Garcia-Alix in the Balearic Islands, especially Ibiza and Formentera, and a slide show with 200 works by the artist. The exhibition will open on September 9 until 9 January 2011. 

Alberto Garcia-Alix (León, 1956) 

He lives and works in Madrid. In 1976, at the age of twenty, he left his family home and the university mount his first first lab with his friend Fernando Pais in Madrid. Self-taught, he created miniature portraits of his most closes surroundings between 1976 and 1986, which became a chronichle of his generation, which was marked by the democratic transition and included intimate autobiographical references.

He moved to Paris in 2003, where he faced a personal crisis while battling a severe illness. In the French capital, García-Alix explored a new format –video- with the work Mi alma de cazador en juego, which is part of the Tres videos tristes trilogy.

He returned to Madrid in 2005, where he founded the production company No Hay Penas. On the occasion of a group photography exhibition organized by the SEACEX in 2007, he first came into contact with China and Chinese society affected him so deeply that the following year he decided to settle there for a time.

In 1999, his work was awarded the Permio Nacional de Fotografía and also won the Premio Bartolomé Ros and Photoespaña (2003) and the Community of Madrid Premio de Fotografía (2005).

His work has been displayed in Madrid, London, Havana, Paris, Frankfurt, New York and Beijing, among other cities, and has been the object of various retrospectives, the most recent at the MNCARS in Madrid 2008.