UNTIL MONDAY 18/5
CARME CENTER. Museum, 2
in the room, a giant pentagram holds the photographs of Chema Madoz —National Photography Award in 2000—as if they were musical notes. Together they make up a beautiful visual symphony.. This is the first exhibition in which the artist explicitly unites two great passions: music and books. So, a score woven on a loom parades before our eyes, a spider playing the piano, a mirror book, a violin turned into a blade or a book of sand. The fifty works gathered in the Center del Carme—half dedicated to music and the other half to the literary universe—reflect Madoz's personal reality and his unmistakable surrealist gaze.: a world where objects escape their daily function to enter the strangeness of the dream.
A dream in which objects transform, combine and give rise to new ones; where the photographer's mind builds authentic visual poetry that invites us to reflect and peer into the alternative universe that his eyes inhabit.. The images are accompanied, besides, of small texts by authors such as Gómez de la Serna or Leonard Bernstein, a detail that the curator of the exhibition, Juan Pedro Font de Mora (the owner of the Railowsky Bookstore), add as icing to this delicious cake.
It is especially beautiful that, on the anniversary that celebrates two centuries of photography, the Center del Carme proposes an exhibition that confronts the digital world. Hoy, Artificial Intelligence can generate in seconds what Chema Madoz builds with patience, look and hands. That's why, Lyrics and compass It is also a tribute to the profession of photographer, to the artist, to the artisan. Madoz can't find the images: he thinks them, look for them, manufactures them and builds everything necessary to make them possible. The result is fantasy photographs that dazzle with their harmony and beauty., always tinted by the infinite elegance of black and white. Dream images created by a genius of inventiveness and imagination, capable of transforming the everyday into true poetry. GLORIA POZUELO
