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THE STORY OF FORCED MIGRATION DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
The well-known English photographer opens 'THE DAY MAY BREAK, Chapter One and Two' at TAMARA KREISLER Gallery, an exhibition that is part of PHotoESPAÑA 2023 which tells the story of animals and people displaced by the climate crisis in which we are immersed.
Nick Brandt has chosen TAMARA KREISLER Gallery as the ideal place to hold his first solo exhibition in Spain, in which he shows a series of photographs taken in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Bolivia. The English photographer, a reference in art, has exhibited in some of the great world capitals such as New York, Berlin, Hamburg and London, among many others.
The founder of 'TAMARA KREISLER Gallery' is Tamara Kreisler, third generation gallery owner of the Kreisler family, who brings her own vision of life and the art world to this project. Now, after working on her online art platform, kreislerart.com, she turns it into a physical gallery, creating alliances with different galleries around the world and starting a program of international fairs.
Madrid, May 2023. Artistic expressions have historically been used as a tool for social expression, being art a form of awareness and a bridge where reality is manifested to the maximum power. Aware of this, Nick Brandt, the famed photographer, has based part of his professional career on the portrait of people and animals affected by climate change.
The well-known English photographer now arrives at TAMARA KREISLER Gallery with 'THE DAY MAY BREAK, Chapter One and Two', an exhibition that is part of PHotoESPAÑA 2023 in which he tells the story of animals and people displaced by the climate crisis in which we are immersed. This is Nick Brandt's first solo exhibition in Spain, in which he shows a series of photographs taken in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Bolivia, where he portrays people and animals affected by the climate crisis. According to the artist himself, all the protagonists of his work have been photographed in natural sanctuaries where the rescued animals were found and will never again live in their wild habitat.
All the people featured in the photographs in this exhibition have been severely affected by climate change, some displaced by cyclones that destroyed their homes and others, such as farmers displaced and impoverished by severe droughts for years.
The portraits in this photographic series were taken in five sanctuaries and conservation areas, where the animals have been previously rescued from poaching areas and natural spaces (their habitat) that have been destroyed. Therefore, this exhibition is about animals that will never again be able to live in their natural environment. It is common for humans to be close to them, photographed together in the same frame at the same time. In addition, there is a common element in this work, the fog, a symbol of a natural world that, in Nick Brandt's words, "was once recognizable and now quickly fades from view".
Nick Brandt is one of the most influential and relevant photographers today. With a focus on nature, and with a strong intention of social denunciation, Brandt tells the disaster caused over the years in the animal and natural world, and how it affects people. Likewise, the acclaimed English photographer has exhibited in some of the most important cities in the art world, such as Berlin, Hamburg, New York and London.
TAMARA KREISLER Gallery, a cross-cutting space for art
In the middle of an effervescent Madrid, exhibitions, cultural expressions and art galleries proliferate. The Madrid capital is experiencing one of its sweetest moments as a European tourist reference thanks to its multitude of leisure options, where artistic spaces are at the center.
In April, the city welcomed a new art space, TAMARA KREISLER Gallery, located in one of the new nerve centers for Madrid's art, in the central street Hermanos Álvarez Quintero, 6, in the well-known Madrid neighborhood of Alonso Martínez, a meeting point for Madrid's avant-garde, where many of the capital's major art galleries meet. A multidisciplinary gallery, where different artistic expressions will have their place, from photography, painting, sculpture and Street Art. "It was born as a living, transversal gallery, with the intention of integrating art into people's daily lives," says Tamara Kreisler, the renowned gallery owner and promoter of this new project, which brings together artists with their own language and identity.
The founder of this unique space is Tamara Kreisler, third generation gallery owner of the Kreisler family, who brings her own vision of life and the art world to this project. Tamara has lived and worked in ten countries, Spain, Bulgaria, Jordan, Turkmenistan, Kuwait, France, the United States, Italy, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates, an experience that gives her a cosmopolitan and global vision of the world. Since her childhood, she has had the opportunity to be surrounded by artists, gallery owners, art critics, collectors and art lovers, visiting galleries, museums and artists' studios, making the proximity to art an important part of her life.
Economist, with more than twenty years of professional life, ten of which were dedicated to selling advertising for different media, including The Wall Street Journal in New York. The next ten years were dedicated to philanthropy, starting and directing the Theodora Foundation in Spain. Tamara entered the art world working in a gallery in Venice and in the family gallery in Madrid, participating in different art fairs with her. In 2015, living in Sweden, she launches Kreislerart.com, with the aim of bringing art in its different disciplines to as many people as possible, by using the digital channel with original and affordable proposals.
She is also co-founder of Fundación (H)ARTE, a foundation that organizes exhibitions in hospitals and health centers through the loan of works by collectors, museums and individual artists.
With the aim of finding artists from all over the world, Tamara has visited the most important art fairs in the world, putting great effort and dedication in the selection of artists to work with, being supported by several advisors and curators specialized in various disciplines for her selection. Tamara has the privilege of the know-how of the Kreisler family, great art lovers, with more than fifty years of work in the field of art and also with the eye and the desire to add new artists and works that are original and transmit emotions. Now, after working on its online art platform, kreislerart.com turns it into a physical gallery, creating alliances with different galleries around the world and starting a program of international fairs.