José María Mellado

Category: Exhibitions

  • “Imágenes que piensan III”, a photographic exhibition of the Bragales Collection.

    “Imágenes que piensan III”, a photographic exhibition of the Bragales Collection.

    From July 2 to August 1, 2021, José María Mellado (Almería, 1966) participates in the group exhibition “Imágenes que piensa III” that takes place at the Centro Nacional de Fotografía de Torrelavega (CNFoto).
    His piece “Castillo Urbano (Cardiff, 2004)”, belonging to the Los Bragales Collection, is part of this exhibition that seeks to put on stage a significant part of its national and international photographic heritage that had not been exhibited previously. An enigmatic image of Mellado where architecture takes center stage in the composition, plays to dislodge us before what seems a utopian landscape, at times unreal that displaces the human being in a gloomy and lonely environment.

    The collection, owned by Jaime Sordo from Santander, has toured several Spanish cities and arrives, this time, at the National Center of Photography of Torrelavega to show a selection of pieces that are valid for an important photographic tradition, through essential names within the contemporary visual panorama.

    Curated by Alberto Pérez Castaño, the exhibition is made up of 38 photographs of 29 national and international creators within which we can find Helena Almeida, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Per Barclay, Botto & Bruno, Regina José Galindo, Rebecca Horn, Erwin Oalf, Joao Onofre, Miguel Río Branco, Georges Rousse, Margot Sowinska, Sascha Weidner, José Ramón Ais, Daniel Canogar , Maxi del Campo, Naia del Castillo, José María Díaz-Maroto, Susy Gómez, José Guerrero, Ángel Marcos, Alicia Martín, José María Mellado, Antoni Muntadas, Oceans21k, Perejaume, Alberto Ros Días, Santiago A. Sagredo and Mayte Vieta.

    Giving continuity to the work that to this day has been carried out by the Los Bragales Collection to socialize and exhibit the exceptional quality of the pieces it treasures, the exhibition “Images that think III” adds a new guideline to its immeasurable journey of which the author José María Mellado is also part with his photograph “Castillo Urbano (Cardiff) , 2004)” – image that also integrates the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía)-.

    Media:

    CANTABRIA.-El CN Foto acoge ‘Imágenes que piensan III’, con 38 obras de 29 autores nacionales e internacionales

    El CNFoto acoge a partir del viernes 2 de julio la exposición ‘Imágenes que piensan III’ | Noticias de Torrelavega en EsTorrelavega.com

    El CN Foto acoge ‘Imágenes que piensan III’, con 38 obras de 29 autores…

    Fotos: ‘Imágenes que piensan’ la nueva exploración de la Colección Los Bragales

    Exposición fotográfica en Torrelavega: “Imágenes que piensan”

    ‘Imágenes que piensan III’ (colección Los Bragales) en el CN Foto

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  • EXHIBITION 50 FOTOGRAFÍAS CON HISTORIA. ROAMING IN GUADALAJARA

    EXHIBITION 50 FOTOGRAFÍAS CON HISTORIA. ROAMING IN GUADALAJARA

    As part of the cycle of planned roaming, the street exhibition “50 photographs with history” will remain on display until June 20 at the Paseo de las Cruces in Guadalajara, Spain. The exhibition – which at the same time is being presented at the Embassy of Washington D.C of the United States until September – continues to represent an important space of visibility and vindication of Spanish photography, based on the visual, historical and symbolic route proposed by its curators José María Díaz-Maroto and Gonzalo Revidiego.

    In this way, the work of important names of photography arrives in a new city, to propose a retrospective trip through eight decades of the discipline in Spain, where there are outstanding names, -some of them deserving of the National Photography Award-, such as Cristina García Rodero, Joan Fontcuberta, Chema Madoz, Gabriel Cualladó, Joan Colom, Carlos Pérez Siquier , Isabel Muñoz, Cristina de Middel, Ramón Masats, Ouka Leele, Alberto Schommer, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto; together with Agustí Centelles and Francesc Català Roca, both National Awards of Plastic Arts.

    They are joined by another significant number of creators such as Pablo Juliá, José María Mellado, Marisa Flórez, Sandra Balsells, Martín Santos Yubero, among many others who star, these days, in the visuality of these public spaces. An opportunity to stop looking, and delve into history from the lens and precise taking of the aforementioned authors that take us from the outbreak of the Civil War, to the postwar, the transition; to the contemporaneity contained in masterful captures that have become part of the historical reservoir of Spanish photography.

    “50 fotografías con historia”, a project of Signo Editores and organized by Acción Cultural Española continues its exhibition journey socializing and democratizing art, exposing these realities, characters and scenes in a way that is close to the public. A turn to the memory of Spain and photography as a faithful reflection of the historical and social evolution of a country, of a lived time.

    Abierta la exposición ‘50 fotografías con historia’, una muestra al aire libre de gran formato

    Press:

    El Ayuntamiento y Acción Cultural Española traen a la ciudad ‘50 fotografías con historia’, una nueva exposición al aire libre de gran formato

    ’50 fotografías con historia’, una nueva exposición al aire libre en Guadalajara

    Exposición: 50 fotografías con historia – GuadalajaraDiario.es – GuadalajaraDiario.es

    El paseo de las Cruces revive 80 años de historia en forma de fotografía

    50 fotografías con historia Guadalajara (España)

    Ayuntamiento de Guadalajara y Acción Cultural Española traen a la ciudad ‘50 fotografías con historia’, una nueva exposición al aire libre de gran formato

     

     

     

     

     

  • GALERÍA DE ESPEJOS. 21 miradas andaluzas

    GALERÍA DE ESPEJOS. 21 miradas andaluzas

    On March 8, 2021, the Mirror Gallery exhibition opens to the public. 21 Andalusian Looks, curated by Juan Manuel Bonet at the Andalusian Center of Photography.

    It has works of the following artists:

    Fran Bascuñana, Laura Brinkmann, Pablo Castilla, María Clauss, Manolo Espaliú, Héctor Garrido, Lola Guerrera, José Guerrero, Clauida Ihrek, Juan del Junco, Camino Laguillo, Aitor Lara, Pablo López, Mar Martín, José María Mellado, Antonia Moreno, José Muñoz Manuel Muñoz, Erika Pardo Skoug, Virginaia Rota and Elo Vázquez.

    https://www.noticiasdealmeria.com/galeria-de-espejos.-21-miradas-andaluzas-en-el-caf

    https://www.diariodealmeria.es/ocio/CAF-presenta-exposicion-Galeria-andaluzas_0_1553846406.html

    https://www.diariodesevilla.es/ocio/Galeria-espejos-presente_0_1567645388.html

    I also provide you with the link of the news in the news of Canal Sur (minute 8:52):

    Informativos Canal Sur

     

     

  • ‘CLOSER’ new exhibition in Spain

    ‘CLOSER’ new exhibition in Spain

    José María Mellado has opened last October 26th at the Andalusian Centre of Photography his new exhibition ‘C L O S E R’, a project he is being working on for the last few years and where, not forgetting the base of his most well known images –those of Landscape- he does a daring interpretation of it, exploring his most intimate -and closer- profile.
    The exhibition will be travelling to Granada next January 2016 and will follow to other Spanish provinces.

     

     

     

    This abstraction about landscape has led Mellado to reflect honestly on the origin of what urges him to photograph unusual, strange and spectacular places where he pursues the punctum, the hidden soul, the atmosphere that interprets a work giving it a clearlydefined, internationally renowned character.
    Today, after reviewing his motivations, he finds a close, minimalist and intimate approach in his inner condition and in the landscape itself that surrounds his work. From the general to the specific vision to achieve the photographed object in the less is more concept he is seeking.
    As a good photographer, he has found in the vast solitude of the landscape the grandeur of simplicity’s poetry, with both the nudity of the body in an intimate space and that of the soul in an open setting he encloses, in order to find the reason of his search. And, most probably with no immediate answer, his work still is a work in progress that prompts us to keep searching in the next landscapes proposed by the artist.
    C L O S E R starts its touring in Almería and will be later exhibited in different venues over the country.

    Pablo Juliá
    Director of the Andalusian Centre of Photography

     

     


    Interview on the TV show “Al Sur” of Radio Television of Andalusia, issued on January 13, 2016

     

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    This exhibition has 46 pieces from 150×100 to 225×150 cm. They have been produced using an Arizona printer with weatherproof inks thanks to Canon support. The result is long lasting prints that allow to be exhibited without protection, thus avoiding unwanted reflections

     

     

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    Cities itinerant exhibition

    Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía:
    26 october 2015 – 10  january 2016
    Almería

    Centro Cultural CajaGranada:
    28 january – 3 april2016
    Granada

    Museo de Cádiz:
    24 november 2016 – 5 february 2017
    Cádiz

    Casa de la Provincia:
    28 april – 11 de june 2017
    Sevilla

     

  • José María Mellado takes part in Lima Photo 2015

    José María Mellado takes part in Lima Photo 2015

    José María Mellado starts out with Galería Enlace – Arte Contemporáneo (Lima, Perú) and his first involvement in the Peruvian Art market will be Lima Photo 2015. The Lima International Art Galleries Fair, with a focus on photography, will be held for the sixth consecutive year at the Centro de la Imagen from August 12 to 16, 2015.

    Galería Enlace Arte Contemporáneo de Lima will be present at Stand No. 9 of the fair with a solid selection of works by the Spaniards Pablo Genovés, Ángel Marcos, and José María Mellado, and the Argentine Jorge Miño.

     

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    This intimate fair is a celebration of the image, giving photography a privileged position in Lima with visits by specialized galleries from different countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, the United States, France, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela  and others, who will share the Centro de la Imagen with Peru’s most important galleries, displaying and offering the best of contemporary photography, mainly from Latin America and Spain.

     

  • ‘C L O S E R’, José María Mellado’s new exhibition in Spain

    ‘C L O S E R’, José María Mellado’s new exhibition in Spain

    José María Mellado is coming to inaugurate his new exhibition ‘C L O S E R’ in the Andalusian Centre of Photography in Almería next 20th October 2015. ‘C L O S E R’ is an unpublished collection in which he has been working for several years. Without forgetting the classic base of his best known photography, about Landscape, José María Mellado opens to risky interpretations about it, digging deeper into the most intimate space, nearest and definitively CLOSER.

     

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    CENTRO ANDALUZ DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA

    Opening ‘C L O S E R’: 20 October 2015

    Address:

    C/ Pintor Díaz Molina, 9
    04002 – Almería – Andalucía (Spain)

    Opening hours:

    Todos los días de 11.00 h. a 14.00 h. y de 17.30 h. a 21.30 h.

  • In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present

    In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present

    “In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present”

    Sinclair-House Museum of The Altana Art Foundation, Germany.

    The exhibition “In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present” follows the trail of Romanticism in contemporary art. The collection includes nearly 60 major works of photography and video installations from artists such as Marina Abravomic and José María Mellado or Bill Viola. It provides a romantic view about world, people and art.