The unmistakable silhouette of Osborne’s bull is so ingrained in our minds that it has become a vernacular object in photography: widely used in art and film, due to its widespread dissemination, the powerful image it evokes could be considered as one of the most powerful of the last decade.

In Montagna’s photographs, the great Osborne signs an articulate and controversial dialogue with the surroundings. They become a means of describing the landscape, opening a diatribe with the social and natural environment and revealing the role of images as interference between public/private, power/perception, politics and people. The images reveal the mechanisms for forming arguable meaning in the landscape.

Maurizio Montagna investigates how the symbol of the bull has deeply marked the culture throughout Spain and with an eclectic methodology collects cartographies, photographs, filmographies, graphics, etc. which finally blurs the Spanish landscape where the figure of the bull and its omnipresent horns threaten ominously this same landscape.

Presentation of the Photobook Toros. The Marking of a Territory, by Maurizio Montagna.

Presentation by Joan Fontcuberta and Ethel Baraona Pohl

Wednesday, October 26 at 7 p.m

Place: Grisart

Montagna and Fontcuberta will present the publication that traces the iconic silhouette of Osborne’s bull, so rooted in our imagination that it has become a vernacular object in photography: widely used in art and cinema, it could be considered one of the most powerful in the last decade in Spain.