Eugenio Recuenco : 365
For almost 8 years, famed photographer and director Eugenio Recuenco has produced a personal photographic project called “365” which consists of 369 photographs, one for each day of the year. 369 images, 8 years of work, 120 models, a team of 300 people and the unique vision of Eugenio Recuenco.
This renowned photographer and crossover artist’s career combines advertising, fashion, set design, and art. Over more than twenty-five years of professional work, he has explored a variety of image-related genres, including fashion films, commercials, music videos, and, of course, photography. The 365 project is a photographic series of 369 photographs with their own identity, which, shown together, become a sensory, aesthetic, conceptual and avant-garde artistic installation. 365 is a photographic journey through world and personal events. From the arts of the Middle Ages to social networks, going through some historical milestones, and others that are totally current. Becoming the project as a whole, a representation of the state in which the world is plunged, and the reflections that we face in our intimacy 365 analyzes reality in a subtle way and works like a mirror facing society- with irony and visual power. It alludes to the world of Art, Cinema, Religion or Politics, some with iconographic references, while it challenges the viewer in their interpretation process.
“The absurd, that unknown to our nature, that arrives without warning into our lives to take charge of our actions.”
“I thought that possibly the representation of the absurdity of many of our daily actions could become the fiercest criticism; at the same time as helping us to smile and make us change in intimacy”, Recuenco says.
Eugenio Recuenco was born in Madrid in May 1968, in the middle of student protests that had spread out from Paris. As he himself would say “ I heard all that fuss, and was in a rush to be born and see what was going on”.
With that curiosity, he has given the world the most striking photographic images. With this book he reimagines world events in small microcosms. His sometimes subtle and often elaborate settings are constructed in a cinematic manner. These are confined to the box of the series, which measures 3 meters high and 2.5 meters wide. In this series, Recuenco reinterprets September 11, places Star Wars stormtroopers, makes references to Edward Hopper and Jan van Eyck, dresses Mary as Superwoman, and surrounds Donald Trump with showgirls.
The artist subtly analyses reality in his works and holds a mirror to society with irony, false perception, and visual power.
