El origen de la niebla, 2019

Cristina de Middel   Famous Artists

El origen de la niebla (The Origin of the Mist) is a portfolio of eight lithographs by Cristina de Middel accompanied by poems by Miguel Ángel Muñoz, published in 2019 by Taller del Prado in an edition of 50 copies. The lithographs are printed on 300 g Conqueror Connoisseur 100% cotton paper in an elongated horizontal format of 59.5 x 29.5 cm, and each portfolio is hand-signed and numbered by its authors. The project brings together image and word in the tradition of the artist's book: the poet's texts and the artist's images do not illustrate one another but enter into a dialogue around landscape, atmosphere and the elusive nature of mist, an apt subject for an artist whose work constantly questions the boundary between document and fiction. The gallery's records describe the palette in terms of blues and greens. Cristina de Middel (Alicante, 1975) is one of the most visible Spanish image-makers of her generation. Trained as a photographer and photojournalist, she achieved international recognition with The Afronauts (2012), a staged project mixing fact and invention, received Spain's Premio Nacional de Fotografía in 2017 and is a member of Magnum Photos. Her collaborations with Taller del Prado have brought her photographic language into original lithography.