El Lugar y El Tiempo (Time and Place)

Juan Genovés, artist

1930–2020

El Lugar y El Tiempo (Time and Place), 1971

Portfolio/Series title: EL Lugar y El Tiempo (The Place and the Time)

Where object was made: Spain

Material/technique: Arches® wove paper; aquatint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 315 x 441 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 3/8 x 17 3/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 504 x 658 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 13/16 x 25 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in

Credit line: Gift of Mr. James W. Dye through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation

Accession number: 1979.0119.09

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Archive Label 2003:
Genoves was born in Valencia, Spain. As a child he witnessed the Spanish Civil War firsthand. His family sided with the anti-fascist Republicans. Shortly after completing El Lugar Y El Tiempo, Genoves was instrumental in organizing an exhibition in Milan to support the cause against General Franco, who was still Spain’s fascist dictator. The stark silhouettes in El Lugar Y El Tiempo (a portfolio of ten prints) suggest aggressively political crowds that rally and advance.

Exhibition Label:
"Time/Frame," Jun-2008, Robert Fucci, Shuyun Ho, Lauren Kernes, Lara Kuykendall, Ellen C. Raimond, and Stephanie Teasley
Simultaneously gleeful and treacherous, this print suggests continuous motion. Like the high-speed multiple-flash photography seen in the Edgerton photograph, Genovese’s print captures the moments and the movements of descending figures in a single image.