‘Muerte’ Photo Book by Mauricio Toto Goya, Chile 2012
Beautifully dark book of photographs by Mauricio Toto Goya (Born 1970), Chile. Book measures 7 x 7 inches. In Spanish. For the photo exhibitions at Galeria 64, Santiago, Chile, June – August, 2012 & Museo Diego Rivera, Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico, November – December 2012. Very mild aging on cover, otherwise, mint conditon.
Asking $40.
Mauricio Toro Goya (1970), he lives in Altovalsol, Coquimbo Region, Chile, where he has developed his work as a photographer. Since he was very young he has been in touch with Sergio Larrain, the great Chilean reference photographer. Through a sustained contact, the Chilean of the Magnum exercises upon Toro Goya a role of guide and master. He has made more than 40 exhibitions, both individua, collective and presentations in America, Asia and Europe; Those made in: National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile, National Museum of Fine Arts in Argentina, Diego Rivera Museum of Mexico, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center, Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca; Mexico, Montevideo Uruguay Photography Center, China Taipei Arts Museum, Penumbra Foundation New York, ImageneSingulières, France, MOMA Museum of Modern Art in New York. 24 books have been published with his work.
Artist Statement:
“I work from a “Latin American Baroque” aesthetic, as an exploration of a political and conceptual language in contemporary photography.
I use analogous photographic techniques especially the Ambrotype and Daguerreotype, these supports represent my philosophical and political position, it is a form of subversion to the neoliberal model that has installed non-professional digital photography as a new tool of social control.
I look for in the construction of scenes a symbolic narrative of our reality and social history. Peoples that are born in resistance, constituting ourselves from the margin, articulating stories in a cultural mess that shapes our visual identity of which I feel militant”.
He received the municipal award for visual arts, Coquimbo 2016.
He has been the winner of the Fondart scholarship in Chile and the Conaculta Scholarship in Mexico.
In 2014 and 2016 he was nominated for the prestigious Magnum Photos Foundation scholarship.
In 2016 and 2018 he was Selected by the New York Times for the New York Annual Review.
He has been awarded with the Fondart scholarship in Chile and the Conaculta scholarship in Mexico. In the years 2014 and 2016 was nominated for the prestigious scholarship of the Magnum Photos Foundation.
In the year 2016 was selected by The New York Times for the New York Annual Review.