José María Mellado has been interviewed by the monthly magazine specializing in digital photography Superfoto in October 2016.
The interview entitled “Photography, grandeur and intimacy” speaks of the intense activity of Mellado in the world of photography and talks about his latest exhibition CLOSER,
Una Historia Posible, “A Possible History”, an exhibition composed by a remarkable representation of the best of contemporary Spanish photographic creation, this time with a universal approach as a creative scenario, supported by the human being as a substantial context.
José María Mellado participates in this collective exhibition with his work: Mirador del Faro de Suances. Cantabria 2005. 105 x 161 cm
Opening: 13 January 2017
Exhibition: 13 de January – 9 de April 2017 at Auditorio del Centro Niemeyer.
Hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: 3€ general / 2,5€ reducida
Phone: +34 984 835 031
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In August of 2016, several international photographers donated some of their works to be sold at an auction organized by the Fotógrafos Ecuatorianos group, whose purpose was to raise funds for the reconstruction of the areas most affected by the earthquake in Ecuador.
José María Mellado contributed his work “Cubo Azul”
Thanks to the solidarity of the photographers and the union of several collectives and institutions that collaborated disinterestedly for a common purpose, more than four thousand dollars were raised whose destination is the construction of the Communal House of Chamanga in the province of Esmeraldas, one of the Towns most affected by the earthquake.
José María Mellado presented on October 5, 2016 CLOSER his new book in the bookstore La Central in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
For presentation and lecture and subsequent discussion on the work of Mellado, they attended:
Conversation with José María Mellado and Pablo Juliá about the book,
CLOSER is the most intimate and personal photographer’s work where discover the details so far not disclosed his work and personal view of the landscape.
Virtual exhibition
Attendees will enjoy a virtual tour of the most representative images. Printing photos for the exhibition was done with the collaboration of Canon Spain
Jose Maria Mellado has participated during the month of August in the prestigious international fair of Lima Photo 2016, held by Enlace contemporary art gallery.
He has also presented his solo exhibition “Mirar a los ojos” in this gallery with some of his most important pieces, showing his personal taste for landscape.
The show at Enlace gallery is a set of around 15 pieces of different series, gathered by first time in this configuration and curatorship.
Galería Enlace. Avda. Camino Real 1123, San Isidro, Lima
Tel: (51 1) 2225714
Exposición del 11 de Agosto al 25 de Septiembre
“The images coming or created by Jose Maria Mellado, are a link to see the world in a new way”. A certain tone, a certain color or frequency usually low, veiled or deliberately gray, faintly shadowy, between color and light, and as constituting and essential part of it, accentuate, they blunt portions of reality addressed, is a color or atmosphere that hangs, but not to the alien and artificial mode, it is a hue or atmosphere that gives new senses and gives you new dyes and overtones of reality to reality itself”
Video created by Outsiders guide summarizing in pictures the opening of the exhibition “mirar a los ojos” August 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQTz_rBNO28
Photos by Montserrat González
The Spanish artist was present with his work at the international fair of galleries of photography which will be held in Lima from 10 to 14 August
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Mediterraean Centre of Granada University (Spain) presents each summer ‘Encuentros Fotográficos del Mediterráneo”, with workshops and lectures given by great artists like Isabel Muñoz, Alberto García-Alix, Julio Álvarez-Yagüe, Rafael Trobat and Joan Fontcuberta.
José María Mellado is leading the VI Photographic Meeting from September 15 to 17, 2015 with his workshop ‘Technique. Style. Discourse’, that will be held in Granada University’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
During the three-days workshop, the photographer will review rules about audiovisual grammar; will develope his photographic method for putting thecnic at the service of creativity. Mellado will make proposals and recommendations about how to find the own style and how to elaborate own reasoned argument.
More information and booking: VI Photographic Meeting Granada
Extremaduran Parliament opens on October 22th the exhibition ‘Photography in Parliament of Extremadura’s collection’. It’s hold in Camarena Palace (C/ General Ezponda 9, Cáceres), until November 2014.
Among the exhibited works stands out Mellado’s ‘House and road in Asturias’, alongside great artists.
To download the brochure please click Fotografia del Parlamento.(Spanish).
Interview with José María Mellado, by José Francisco Góngora for Digital Indalofoto.
Indalofoto is a partnership of amateur and professional photographers from Almería (Spain). With the report ‘El ojo del Fotógrafo’ (‘The Photographer’s eye’), the magazine pays tribute to Mellado, who took part in this photograhic group before moving to Madrid.
