The Endless War. Antoni Campañà

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Image courtesy of MNAC.

The Endless War reveals the different facets of the work of the photographer Antoni Campañà (Arbúcies, 1906-Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1989), focusing on the photographs that he took during the Spanish Civil War, which his family found by chance in 2018. This series of images, of great artistic quality and historical importance, was hidden away in a box by the artist, where it remained for more than 70 years, from the end of the Civil War to 2018. This box, containing hundreds of previously unseen images, is now known as the “red box” and it is a very important new contribution to Catalunya’s photographic heritage, particularly in regard to the Spanish Civil War, re-situating Campañà as one of the great names in 20th-century Catalan and Spanish photography.

The show presents a large number of these previously unseen photographs, never even developed by the photographer. The majority of the photos in the exhibition come from the material kept by the artist’s family, which has loaned 63 photographs from the pictorialist period before the war to the museum. Some of these photographs will also be displayed for the first time in the exhibition.

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