This was the last exhibition the Mallorcan photographer Toni Catany (Llucmajor, 1942-Barcelona, ??2013). could witness in life. It was shown at the Galerie Box Brussels from May to July 2013 and would be presented at the Gallery Trama of Barcelona.
But with the sudden death of the artist, the 14th of that same month, it became the first posthumous homage dedicated to this self-taught photographer who became National Photography Award 2001, among other distinctions.
An extended version was shown in October 2014 in Llucmajor and now reaches Sa Nostra Cultural Centre as the first of the events organized by the Toni Catany Foundation, which promotes and manages the artistic legacy of the artist.
The title Altars profans (Profane altars), his last series of still lifes, was created from the relationship of this expression, used in a text on his still lifes, with a memory that takes him to the months of May of his childhood in Llucmajor, while playing with his friends to mimic the traditional altars to the Virgin Mary that was mounted in the village church every year.
