Miguel Trillo was born in Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz) in 1953. He holds a degree in Image and Hispanic Linguistics from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since the 1970s, he has photographed young people in musical settings (rock concerts and ...
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Miguel Trillo was born in Jimena de la Frontera (Cádiz) in 1953. He holds a degree in Image and Hispanic Linguistics from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since the 1970s, he has photographed young people in musical settings (rock concerts and nightclub parties). In the 1980s in Madrid, he turned his primary focus to the lesser-known figures of the Movida movement (the Pop Purrí exhibition at the Ovidio gallery in 1982 and the Amadís gallery in 1983, and the anonymous publication of six issues of the fanzine Rockocó from 1980 to 1984). Trillo ended the decade reflecting a generational shift in two works published in the creative magazine Sur Exprés: Los nuevos pijos (1988) and Madrid hip hop (1988).
In the early 1990s, he painted a portrait of Spanish youth in small provincial capitals for the Sunday edition of the newspaper El País. He exhibited this work at the Moriarty Gallery (1992) in Madrid, entitled Souvenirs, publishing strips of tourist postcards as a catalog. In 1993, he transformed the El Manantial Gallery in Barcelona into a souvenir shop, showcasing his photos reproduced on tourist objects. Since 1994, he has lived in Barcelona, where he has developed the series Modern Geography, a journey across linguistic and territorial borders of the Iberian Peninsula. He has issued postage stamps with portraits of these young people (El Europeo magazine – 1997; H2o gallery in Barcelona – 1999 and 2004). His latest completed series is titled Habaneras (exhibited at the Círculo de BBAA in Madrid as part of PhotoEspaña 05).
In 2009, a major retrospective was organized at the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC) in Seville and at the Canal de Isabel II gallery in Madrid, curated by José Lebrero, current director of the Picasso Museum in Malaga. The exhibition received the Villa de Madrid Award for the best photography exhibition of the year.
Since 2011, the Museo Reina Sofía has included his fanzines and photos from the early 1980s in the permanent exhibition "From Revolt to Postmodernism (1962-1982), which are part of the MNCARS collection. In 2014, he was featured in the exhibition "The Intangible Heritage," part of the MACBA collection in Barcelona.
His work, a mixture of document, concept, and passion, can also be found in important Spanish private collections.
In 2020, the solo exhibition Miguel Trillo. La Primera Movida took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and as part of PHotoEspaña.
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