https://linktr.ee/alfonsolegaz3.0 • Born in Düsseldorf to Spanish parents, he is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Valencia. He holds a Master’s degree in Photography, Art, and Technique from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with studies in Philosophy, and his practice links thought and philosophy to contemporary art. His projects revolve around the categories of the “representable” and the “unrepresentable” that determine documentary construction and artistic practice, drawing on strategies from anthropology. His first multimedia work (2006) is one of the 100 most outstanding books published in the 21st century by the Photographic Memory Archive of the Spanish Civil War. He incorporates chance as a productive agent in his highly participatory processes, working with photography, hybrid film essays, ethnographic audiovisuals, archives, oral testimony, psychoanalysis, artistic and scientific literature, and the creative acts of other artists.
Trained by international specialists such as Alexander G. Duttman, Catherine David, Jean Françoise Chevrier, Laurence Rassel, Esther Ferrer, and Joan Fontcuberta, his work has directly intervened or dialogued with the physical work of artists such as Cristian Boltanski, Darío Villalba, Antoni Tàpies, Cristopher Baker, Agustí Centelles, Xavier Ribas, Rabih Mroué, Jacques Prèvert, and Anton van Dyck. He has received collaboration from thinkers such as the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, around whom he has developed long-term experimental projects in Europe that have been very well received by theoretical specialists and researchers, mainly at the Complutense University of Madrid. A substantial part of this work has been shown and published at international events such as specific conferences on art, aesthetics, and visual studies, as well as in art and philosophy publications with quality assurance evaluation standards.
Teacher with more than 10 years of experience coordinating workshops and courses related to visual arts production and visual literacy. He created the Producer of Presence Lab workshop laboratory, focused on the procedural dimension of real artistic processes at the service of social emancipation in the political sense proposed by Jacques Rancière.
His visual work, both individually and as part of a team, has been developed in various European countries, staying in specialized archives and libraries, documentary centers, and Spanish and foreign art collections such as the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Civil War Photographic Memory Archive, the UNED University Consortium, Jaume I University, the Ramón J. Sender Foundation, the Ardèche Images documentary film archive center in France, and Kunstagentur Dresden in Germany. His multidisciplinary production has been presented in Spanish venues and events, where his photography has won awards, as well as at festivals and exhibition centers in Glasgow, Dresden, Athens-Aegina, New York, Mexico, and Lussas.
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