Eugeni Forcano (Canet de Mar, 1926) entered the world of
photography like a whirlwind, answering Josep Vergés and Néstor Luján's
invitation to join the magazine Destino in 1960. Self-taught and intuitive, he
gazed with wisdom, passion and irony at everything around him.
In 1964, Joan Perucho highlighted the human depths of
Forcano's work, whilst in 1966, Josep Pla, always sparing in this praise, said
of him: "He is a great photographer, a great artist. He is different and
unpredictable. Singular". According to José Corredor–Matheos Forcano
"makes us to see that reality is always surprising". Forcano has the
gift of anticipation. Andrés Trapiello insists that "the most important
thing in his photographs is the beating of all that is still alive",
whilst Josep Maria Espinàs considers that "you can hear his characters
speak".
Photography marked Forcano's life forever. An
evolutionist and a dreamer, his career embraced different stages: fashion,
illustration, symbolism... as well as painstaking research into colour as a new
form of artistic expression. Jorge Rueda, writing about Forcano's colour
photography, congratulated him: "At last you have managed to photograph
sighs". Javier Pérez Andújar defines him as follows: "He is, more
than an avant-garde photographer, a vitalist photographer who understands the
language of his time".
Eugeni Forcano Village Peace Disturbed. 1968
The facts would appear to confirm this. According to
Josep Maria Huertas Claveria, Forcano is "one of the greatest
photographers Catalonia
has ever produced".
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