The exhibition displays the urban landscape of Valencia from the 80s to beyond 2004, and it is distributed in four sections: Culture, Politics, Night and City. The exhibition has been introduced this morning in a press conference. The Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality, Antonio Ariño and El Flaco have attended the event.

According to El Flaco, the main idea of this exhibition come from the sample created by MuVIM about its vision of La Habana. “I thought about doing an exhibition about my city and its population, paying homage to Valencia. And for this, I have selected the most important work of my analogue archive throughout three decades”, explains about an exhibition in black and white. A sample that initiates his career after the dictatorship and shows the evolution of a city thanks to an autodidact photojournalist who has had the Valencian photographer Paco Jarque as his main master.

Apart from the volume and relationship with the city, El Flaco has stated that this exhibition has a special symbolism for him, because this is a return to his university. In this location he started his degree in Economics in 1969.

El Flaco, as an historian of the city, captures emblematic places in his pictures during the day (Los Madriles, Nácher, Lotería Bello, Casa Montaña, Futurama) and night (La Marxa, La Torna, Cabaret Pachá, Café Malvarrosa). And he also takes pictures of social communities, demonstrations and strikes, but, above all, people: Blanquita, Ovidi Montllor, Pepe Rubianes, Rosita Amores, y también Alicia Alonso, José Saramago, Umberto Eco, Catherine Deneuve, Rafael Alberti, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Juan Gil Albert, Matilde Salvador, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Nuréyef, Nuria Espert, Luis García Berlanga, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Emma Cohen, Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Almudena Grandes, Eduardo Arroyo, Carlos Pérez, Anzo, Ramón Gaya, Mariscal, Manuel Hernández Mompó, Monjalés, Michavila, Cualladó, Carmen Calvo, Jarque, Alfaro, Vicente Todolí, Dávila, Rafael Chirbes, Ricardo Pérez Casado, Manuela Carmena or Tomás Valiente, among others.

The list of this short stories is inmmersed in an antropologic mosaic, where some people visited Valencia and others were already there. The small and discreet camera of El Flaco is present in many moments of the nightlife.

Also, the cloister of the Cultural Centre La Nau appears repeatedly in his pictures and becomes the emblematic location of the portraits of: Joan Fuster, Mario Benedetti, Jesús Martínez Guerricabeitia, Vicent Ventura, Ernest Lluch, José Luis Sampedro, Doro Balaguer, Enric Valor, Paco Bascuñán, Pilar Miró, Gonzalo Suárez, Josep Piera, Joan Romero, Ciprià Císcar, Antonio Ariño, Alfons Cervera…  Famous people who participated firmly in the contruction of the current political and sociocultural environment.

This exhibition is a recognition of the testimonial labour of El Flaco as a narrator and guard of those short stories and the valuation of his work through the last three decades involves also recognising the main characters and creators of the Valencian cultural history.

The expositive project also counts on the intervention of Carmen Alborch, Alfons Cervera, Carles Gámez, Javier de Lucas and Abelardo Muñoz, who address political, social and cultural aspects, a closer approach to the author and the impact of his pictures in our society.