Victor Palla | Platinum Age

Artist

Victor Palla (1922-2006)

Date

from February 19th 2009 to March 24th 2009

Description

Vintage works akin to the Subjective photography (influenced by Otto Steinert) and Constructivist sensibilities. Finest examples of Palla's experimentation work from the 50s and 60s: nudes, portraits and composition studies. 

Palla's work

Victor Palla [1922-2006]. With a significant body of work both as an architect and a photographer, Victor Palla was also a painter, ceramic artist, graphic designer, publisher, translator, gallery owner, a man of ideas and a promoter of many events. The project and book "Lisboa Cidade Triste e Alegre" (Lisboa: A Sad and Joyful City), that he exhibited and published together with Costa Martins in 1957-1959, was a complete innovation in the world of Portuguese photography. Rediscovered and redistributed in 1982 by António Sena and the Ether association-gallery in Lisbon, the book has gained an international reputation – mainly through "The Photobook”, the history of the photographic book published by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in 2004 – as one of the most significant publishing events of its time. Despite that success, Victor Palla's photographs remained little known, in particular his more experimental work and the pieces where he combined his preoccupations as an artist with his two other careers as an architect and designer. That experimental path was first attempted at the beginning of the 1950s, and was again revived in several exhibitions that took place throughout the 1980s, particularly in "Objectiva/84" at Festa do Avante (1984) or in "A casa” (The house), a solo presentation held in 2000 at the Gulbenkian Cultural Centre in Paris. [...] Alexandre Pomar

This exhibition his dedicated to Maria João Palla.

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P4's director is pleased to invite you to Victor Palla meeting/debate, taking place at P4Photography Gallery, on 20th of March (Friday, 9.30pm).

Joining the debate will be:

João Palla
André Príncipe
Alexandre Pomar

Meeting/debate, taking place at P4Photography Gallery, on 20th of March 09