From 22 February to 21 April 2024, the Sala Canal de Isabel II is hosting the exhibition, Jordi Socías. Al final de la escapada, an exhibition that traces the fifty years of life behind the camera of Jordi Socías, master of portraiture, composer of images and universal observer.
Born in Barcelona in 1945 and self-taught, Socías has been an exceptional witness to the turn of the century, as well as the founder of the COVER Agency -which, inspired by Magnum, brought a new vision to Spanish photojournalism- and editor of important publications such as Cambio 16, Madrid me mata, El Europeo, Cinemanía and El País Semanal. Through his lens, great personalities of our time have paraded such as Jorge Luis Borges (1980), Paloma Picasso (1988), Francis Ford Coppola (1998) or Ai Weiwei (2021).
Jordi Socías. Al final de la escapada is a journey through the multiplicity of decisive moments that the photographer has captured throughout his life: from the portrait of Dalí that catapulted his career in 1979, to his travels around the world that reveal scenarios where the characters inhabit as in a great mise-en-scène. The visitor participates in the photographer’s long-distance race, absorbing each instant, anticipating the emotion with his camera. As the curator of the exhibition, Lucía Laín, states, “for Socías nothing is linear and memories alternate as the result of a search that ‘escapes’ the predetermined”.
Structured on four floors, the visitor will find, as soon as he enters the exhibition, a wide selection of magazine and book covers and interiors where Socías’s mark is present as a photographer and editor. The first floor deals with his early work, such as the photograph of the outskirts of Barcelona in which the letters of the Lumiere Cinema emerge (1975), with which he himself considers that he began his career, or the portrait of Salvador Dalí (1979), which consecrated him, as well as other images that confirm him as an exceptional witness to the turn of the century and decisive moments in the history of Spain.
