Selection, 1955-2005
Ricard Terré was born in Catalonia, just before the Civil War, into a family of industrialists. His talent for mechanics and his taste for art, his extreme ability for drawing, contribute to nourish his practice of photography as well as his writing: precise and literal in the transcription of reality, audacious in its form. Incisive and critical, full of compassion and tenderness. A singular, rare, dense and coherent work, one of the most interesting in Spanish photography at the time of the awakening of this language after the post-war lethargy.
His photographic work comprises two periods: from 1955 to 1969 and from 1982 to 2005. However, his style and motivations do not suffer from any variation during the period in which he abandoned photography. During the second period, Galicia was his research territory: ancestral pilgrimages, pagan celebrations and Holy Week processions. These places and people encouraged him to continue experimenting with the clear plasticity of black and white as an expression of humanity through those who crossed his path: children from all social classes, inhabitants of small villages, drunken young people at parties, powerful women at work… He also observed feelings in animals and through landscapes. The small things abandoned, the loss of faith and loneliness, the close portrait of the anonymous, the fragile, the different. The faces hidden behind carnival masks, by religious veils. His photography discovers the ecstasy in the stone of statues, frees the gestures in the physical deformation of the weakest.
Laura Terré
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