From 7th November to 11th January it can be visited in the exhibition hall of the Arxiu del So i de la Imatge of the Cultural Centre of La Misericòrdia, in Palma.
The Consell de Mallorca, through the Arxiu del So i de la Imatge, will open a new exhibition on Thursday at 7 pm on the third floor of the Centro Cultural de La Misericòrdia, entitled Tolo Salleras. El llegat d’un reporter fotogràfic del segle XX. The exhibition, produced by the University of the Balearic Islands, is part of the project ‘R+D+i El paisaje que habla. Theoretical framework and interdisciplinary references project, funded by the Ministry of Culture, and has been curated by Maria Josep Mulet and Juan Carlos Oliver (UIB) and coordinated by Francesc X. Bonnín, from ASIM. Bonnín, from ASIM.
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The Consell de Mallorca opens the exhibition Tolo Salleras. The arrival of a 20th-century photojournalist
The exhibition is the first step in the dissemination of Tolo Salleras’ collection and shows the plastic quality of the photographer and the value of the local photographic heritage. With this exhibition, the Consell de Mallorca and the Universitat de les Illes Balears are making known the need to receive, preserve and disseminate the photographic and audiovisual heritage of our island.
The exhibition will remain open until 11 January 2025, from Monday to Saturday, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm. It will be closed on Sundays and public holidays.
The legacy of Bartomeu Salleras Fuster (Porreres, 1938 – Palma, 2005)
In December 2018, the children and heirs of the photographer Bartomeu Salleras Fuster (Guillem Miquel, Pere Joan and Verónica Isabel Salleras Vives) donated his image collection, consisting of hundreds of black and white and colour negatives, to the UIB.
The UIB accepted the important archive with the commitment to conserve, catalogue and disseminate it. It has major holdings such as the Rotger, Josep Pons Frau, Antoni Palou, Clemente Picornell Bauzà, the collection of the Juan Tous family and, among others, works by Joan Ramon Bonet and Toni Catany.
The family made the donation with the aim of keeping the visual memory of their father and the socio-political context of Mallorca in the second half of the 20th century alive. It was not in vain that from 1977 to 2002 he was the official photographer of all the autonomous and pre-autonomous governments of the Balearic Islands; in other words, the photographer of democratic institutionalisation.
Like so many local image professionals, from a very young age he trained in the usual establishments (such as Casa Planas) until he set up his own studio, where he received commissions of all kinds (portraits, social rites, advertising, shows, events, competitions, etc.). He also worked as a photojournalist for the newspaper Última Hora (1959-1965), covering a wide range of news and producing reports on everyday events, special or extraordinary, industrial, musical, touristic, sporting and cultural events: the camera’s capture of the moment.