Untitled. The ''Onco +'' Series
Date: 2007
Technique: Harman inkjet pigment ink print on barite photo paper on dibond aluminium
Dimensions: 70 x 100 cm
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Contemporani de Palma
Reg. no.: 641
Not on display
Pepe Cañabate develops his work through projects in series which arise from the analysis of the reality close to him from diverse perspectives. The series “Onco +” (2008) came into being as the result of a personal experience, when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. As is customary in his work, the images are in black and white - in this case the fruit of the analogue process - and he could not check the result until finishing the film. The different takes are an unfiltered testimony of the whole process he underwent from the treatment to the operation to fight the disease. In this series the slanted or partial shots remit one from things objective towards things subjective, with each composition as a fragment, a pact with time to face memory going beyond the present.
E.B.
Pepe Cañabate currently lives and works in Palma. Self-taught, and interested in the photographic medium since he was a teenager, he is one of the main exponents of documentary photography and social reportage in Mallorca. The effects of globalization on cities and their loss of identity (“Yankiland” series), the self-portrait and its relationship to the context (“Titan”) or experimentation with the digital technique are other themes that he develops in his long-term projects, in which he uses both analogue and digital photography, in a process of research of the interior and the exterior. In 2008, he was a runner-up in the PhotoEspaña competition, where he exhibited snapshots illustrating the process of his treatment for cancer. His work was awarded the Ciutat de Palma Photography Prize in 1989 and 1990. Cañabate has exhibited at Galeria Joan Guaita (Palma de Mallorca, 1992), Galerie Bernard (Cologne, 2002), Centre de Cultura “Sa Nostra” (Palma de Mallorca, 2004), Galería La Fàbrica de Licors (Palma de Mallorca, 2005), Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca (2008), Galería Carlos Roldós (Palma de Mallorca, 2009 and 2010), Galeria Vanrell (Palma de Mallorca, 2012) and Palmaphoto 2013 (Photostreet). E.B.
