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KBr Opens Season With Walker Evans Retrospective and Pérez Siquier Survey in Barcelona

The season launch pairs a 231‑print Evans survey curated by David Campany with 110 photographs by Spanish color pioneer Carlos Pérez Siquier.

Overview

  • The Evans exhibition, titled Now and Then, spans the 1920s to the 1970s and is organized thematically across twelve sections.
  • All 231 Evans works are period prints, ranging from Depression‑era icons to late Polaroid color experiments and meticulous architectural studies.
  • Curators highlight Evans’s focus on everyday life, small towns and vernacular signage, a perspective that anticipated elements of pop art.
  • The concurrent Pérez Siquier show, curated by Eva M. Vives, traces his La Chanca series and his groundbreaking embrace of color in Spain.
  • Both exhibitions are on view at Fundación Mapfre’s KBr in Barcelona through 24 May 2026.