Thursday, October 27, 2011

PAST: ART: Made in Almeria" Photographs by Mark Parascandola at the Former Residence of the Ambassador of Spain SAT, May 12th from 10:00am - 4:00pm, Free

"Made in Almeria" Photographs by Mark Parascandola 
at the Former Residence of the Ambassador of Spain
Saturday, May 12th
10:00am - 4:00pm
Free

DC Artist Mark Parascandola will be previewing a selection of new work as part of  "Shortcut to Europe" EU Embassies' Open House this Saturday, May 12th. Other activities throughout the day include Spanish food, wine and dancing. More information on the day's events can be found here.

The large format photographic prints are part of an ongoing project documenting movie sets and locations around Almeria, Spain. During the 1960s and 1970s, the region of Almeria was host to dozens of filmmakers who constructed elaborate movie sets, invoking locations from the American Southwest to Bedouin Arabia. Films shot here include Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia, Patton, and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. Film directors sought to manipulate the otherwise uninhabitable landscape in order to create a world more imaginary than real. Four decades later remnants of the old movie sets remain in the desert, providing seemingly tangible evidence of human settlements that never really existed.

Former Residence of the Ambassador of Spain
2801 16th St, NW (map)
near All Souls, between Harvard and Fuller
Metro: Columbia Heights, walk south on 14th, turn right on Columbia, left on 16th

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