At the Museo di Roma in Trastevere the first exhibition in Italy of the photographer who chronicles La Movida

From January 20 to April 30, 2023, the Museo di Roma in Trastevere hosts the exhibition La Movida. Spain 1980-1990, the first exhibition in Italy by photographer and artist Miguel Trillo (Jimena de la Frontera, Cadiz, 1953), curated by Héctor Fouce and promoted by Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and the Embassy of Spain in Italy.

The exhibition aims to recount through more than sixty photographs the 1980s, the cultural movement known as La Movida and its social and political consequences.

After forty years of military dictatorship and with the end of censorship, a period of construction of the new democratic Spain began in the 1980s and 1990s. While previous generations shape a new political framework, younger people focus on the enjoyment of the new regime of freedom, and the Movida becomes the over-the-top image of this new, nascent Spain: young, wild, irreverent, colorful, hedonistic, and free.

Songs and photographs, along with cinema, were the perfect correlate of Spanish political change in the 1980s. Miguel Trillo, instead of sharing his generation’s fascination with new musical idols, stopped to look at the audience that made the musicians stars of mass culture. In his photos, the camera has its back to the stage and focuses on the concert-goers. The protagonists in Trillo’s photographs are aware that the camera will forever fix them in time. These images testify to the emergence of a new culture in which we have been immersed ever since, in which sound and image have replaced speech as the central element.

La movida. Spain 1980-1990 is the first exhibition in a series organized by the Embassy of Spain in Italy, which aims to present this fundamental period of Spain’s recent history through the generation of photographers that emerged during those years.

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Image: Miguel Trillo, Concierto Deep Purple (Madrid, 1985)

At the Museo di Roma in Trastevere the first exhibition in Italy of the photographer who chronicles La Movida

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