Art Madrid'23 – CHEMA MADOZ, THE STILL TRAVELER

 

Chema Madoz. "The stationary traveler, 2016" Miradas de Asturias, 2017 ". Art Collection Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation

 

 

Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958)  known for his surrealist captures in black and white, in 2000 he was awarded the National Photography Prize. The manipulation of photographs, is their personal seal and endows new meanings to everyday objects through experimentation and overlapping elements. Symbolism acts as a precedent in this stream full of meanings and minimalist appearance. Madoz has made many national and international exhibitions and has left a mark on every project he has presented.

 

Chema Madoz. Series "The stationary traveler, 2016" Miradas de Asturias, 2017 ". Art Collection Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation

 

 

In "The Still traveler" his last work, the artist has invested the usual artistic process developed so far, in which objects were responsible for bringing the concept to life. His work focuses on the ideas of Asturias, framing their customs, landscapes and people in an unusual way within the canons of Madoz. Traveling immobile causes the viewer to move to Asturias without moving from the site.

 

 

Chema Madoz. Series "The stationary traveler, 2016" Miradas de Asturias, 2017 ". Art Collection Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation

 

 

His poetic representations manage to achieve the synthesis with which Madoz delights us with the magic of the north. Connect with the environment using tools correctly chosen and placed in the right plane. The sense of humor is present in all the pieces highlighting aspects as obvious as the time,the landscape and to raw nature.

 

Chema Madoz. Series "The stationary traveler, 2016" Miradas de Asturias, 2017 ". Art Collection Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation

 

 

Curated by Borja Casani, the show has a video in which you can admire the interior of the Campoamor theater through a waterfall, a metaphor that for the curator means "how we see, at present, nature, as a show that, to contemplate it with many people instead of individually, loses its essence. " The exhibition has been organized and promoted by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation in collaboration with the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid.
 

 

 

In the year 2020 in the heart of Barcelona a wandering gallery was born, the same one that in February 2021 would debut at Art Madrid with an exhibition proposal focused on contemporary portraits; with this subject matter it would manage to create a powerful dialogue between artwork and audience and make the seal Inéditad remain in the history of the event that contained it.

Jean Carlos Puerto. Protección. Oil and copper leaf on wood. 60 x 48. 2021. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Since that first time and until today, the wandering gallery has managed to build projects on otherness, has repositioned in the spotlight the discourses on the LGTBIQ+ collective, has consolidated a group of artists who share its principles of resilience and empathy and the best thing is that it continues to bet from the professionalism and commitment to give voice to the difference.

Claudio Petit-Laurent.. El Joven de la Perla. Oil on wood. 30 x 30 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Inéditad Gallery, thanks to its founder Luis López, its collaborators and the infinite possibilities manifested in the works of the artists it represents, is a gallery that has demonstrated its capacity and courage to stimulate the sensibility of the public through art and seduce a generation that moves between the glass window and the analogical story. Inéditad is a nomadic gallery that has gathered around it a community of artists and has moved the context with exhibition projects that think about LGTBIQ+ art without prejudices.

Pepa Salas Vilar. Las marcas del arcoiris. Oil on canvas. 40 x 50 cm. 2022. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Pride and Prejudice was inaugurated. An exhibition that brings together the works of sixteen artists: Abel Carrillo, Alex Domènech, Carlos Enfedaque, Silvia Flechoso, Jamalajama, Daniel Jaén, Claudio Petit-Laurent, Jean Carlos Puerto, Fernando Romero, Pablo Rodríguez, Pepa Salas Vilar, Jack Smith, Pablo Sola, Bran Sólo, Elia Tomás and Utürüo. Painting, illustration, photography and digital art are the manifestations that bring into dialogue around fifty neatly threaded pieces, in a discursive line that discusses such a latent phenomenon as discrimination. To achieve this, the artists invited to the exhibition question themselves whether: Does discrimination exist within the LGTBIQ+ collective?

Pride and Prejudice Official Poster. Image courtesy of the gallery.

With approaches on and from the body, the proposal invites to celebrate diversity, proposes to question and self-question the prejudices and attitudes of society against the collective. Pride and Prejudice is a space for dialogue about the constructs imposed on us by society. It is also an oasis in which to deconstruct with tolerance and respect the subjectivities that sometimes prevent us from approaching the production of the participating artists, simply because "the beautiful" does not fit in an androgynous body. The subjugation of stereotypes are pressed with determination to find the beauty of diversity in other palpable facets of reality.

Pablo Sola. All men are dogs. Photography. 2014. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Throughout these three years Inéditad has stimulated the vindictive projection towards bad practices, has questioned estates around the LGTBIQ+ body and the most admirable thing, is that these capacities have resurfaced around the dialogue and the visual narrative of the stories that are told from the visual: Artworks that are people, art that is, per se, humanity. Overcome impositions and accept what is different in order to continue fighting against homophobia, biphobia, lesbophobia or transphobia and defend the equal rights that all the acronyms of the collective deserve in our community.

That's Pride and Prejudice: One creature, the happiest in the world. And maybe other projects and other people have said it - or felt it - before, but none so fairly.

Silvia Flechoso. Hola, soy maricón. Oil on canvas. 73 x 54 cm. 2023. Image courtesy of the gallery.

From June 8th until June 22nd you can visit Pride and Prejudice. Carrer de Palau núm. 4. Canal Gallery space. Barcelona.