Throckmorton Fine Art present Flor Garduño, Paths of Life through January 22, 2025. The exhibition features forty-five black and white photographs by artist Flor Garduño, famous for his deeply empathetic visual storytelling that has had a significant impact on photography in his native Mexico and beyond .
The exhibition takes its name from Garduño’s latest book, which received the 2024 A. García Cubas Prize for Best Art Book, awarded by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Paths of Life offers a retrospective of Garduño’s forty-five-year career, presenting a selection of recent and previously unpublished images focusing on architecture and landscape, figure studies, still lifes and cultural iconography. This year, Garduño was honored with a major exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, perhaps the greatest recognition for a Mexican artist.
“Garduño is one of the most imaginative photographers of our time,” said Spencer Throckmorton, director of Throckmorton Fine Art, who has known Garduño for forty years and represented her in New York for three decades. “His compositions are magical and captivating. Even though his photographs are refined, they exude an elegance and a dreamlike side that invites contemplation. Mexican critic Francisco Reyes aptly describes his work as “the photography of astonishment”, ensuring that his photographs provoke a second look and deep reflection.
About Flor Garduño
Born in Mexico City in 1957, Flor Garduño’s upbringing outside the city, on a farm with a large family zoo, sparked her imagination and curiosity about myths.
She studied visual arts at the San Carlos Academy of Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where one of her teachers was the Hungarian photographer Kati Horn. In 1979, she began working as an assistant to the greatest photographer in Latin America, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Garduño’s later work for the Mexican Secretary of Public Education took her to remote rural areas of Mexico to find suitable materials for bilingual literacy books. This work was formative, giving Garduño the opportunity to learn about his country and its many indigenous peoples, and to develop his own style. Garduño continued to travel, finding inspiration for his photographs in countries as diverse as Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Switzerland and Poland.
Garduño has published numerous collections since his first, Magic of the Eternal Game, in 1985. Other notable works include Witness of Time, Inner Light, and Trilogy. His photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Garduño’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of leading museums and libraries, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City; Bank of the Republic Museum, Bogotá; Museum of Photography, Antwerp; National Library of France, Paris; and the Ludwig Museum, Cologne. Flor Garduño resides in Mexico City.
Flor Garduño Paths of Life
Until January 22, 2025
Throckcmorton Fine Art
145 E. 57th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10022
www.throckmorton-nyc.com
