Catalan cultural personalities seen through Antoni Bernad’s lens

The exhibition opens on 28 January and will fill the hall of Fundació Joan Miró with pictures taken by the photographer himself, Antoni Bernad. The authorship will not be the only feature they share, all the selected photographs will be portraits of Catalan cultural personalities that were taken at the end of the 1970s, and all the people that appear in the photographs were related in one way or another to the life or work of Joan Miró. For this reason, the organisers have decided to call the exhibition Miró Shadows with a Light of Their Own. It will be open to the public until 14 June.

Antoni Bernad i Margarit was born in Barcelona in 1944. He studied Fine Arts and in 1966 he began to work exclusively as a photographer. The same year he settled in Paris where, 24 months later, he witnessed the historical strikes and protests of May 68 that took place throughout France. He has worked for fashion magazines and in advertising, and his photographs have been the protagonists of exhibitions held in places such as the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, among many others. Less than two years ago he dedicated a retrospective in Palau Robert. He also specialises in portrait photography and numerous well-known names have posed in front of his camera, including Salvador Dalí, Mercè Rodoreda, Antoni Tàpies, Frederic Mompou, Sebastià Gasch and even Joan Miró himself.

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