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  • EXHIBITION INSTANTES DE LUZ IN AURORA VIGIL-ESCALERA GALLERY

    EXHIBITION INSTANTES DE LUZ IN AURORA VIGIL-ESCALERA GALLERY

    José María Mellado, INSTANTES DE LUZ. From June 19 to July 19 Aurora Vigil-Escalera Gallery

     

    Individual exhibition by José María Mellado, curated by Esther Maestre, director of the Photographic Encounters of Gijón and photographic advisor of the gallery.
    José María Mellado is one of the main exponents of photography in Spain for his artistic and didactic facet, internationally recognized for his characteristic landscapes that manage to transport the viewer to the place of the shot with the greatest possible complexity and fidelity. Mellado has investigated in depth the technical possibilities of capture, treatment and copying. His artistic work is collected in six books of work: “The Silence and the Light”, “Iceland”, “Landscape. The Eternal Return”, “From Heaven to Earth”, “CLOSER” AND “Cuba. On the other side of the mirror.”

    His work has been awarded more than a hundred times and his works appear in important collections and museums, highlighting the Reina Sofía National Museum (MNCARS), Borusan Contemporary de Estambúl, Chazen Museum of Art (Wisconsin – USA), Contemporary Art Collection of the Community of Madrid, Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, the State Society for International Exhibitions , Museum of Cáceres, Government of Cantabria, Assembly of Extremadura, Artium (Basque Museum of Contemporary Art), Coca Cola Foundation, UNED Foundation, TEA, Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, etc.

    He has regularly participated in the most important international art fairs such as ArtBasel, Art Brussels, Art Cologne, Art Karlsruhe, Photo Miami, Pulse, SCOPE, ArteLisboa or ARCO, being represented by galleries in Spain, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, France, Panama and Peru.

     

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  • HOY TAMBIÉN ES AHORA

    HOY TAMBIÉN ES AHORA

    JOSÉ MARÍA MELLADO Y LIUDMILA & NELSON

    Space Art Revolution. Havana. November, 2019

    On November 30th, the two-person exhibition Hoy también es ahora by the Spanish photographer José María Mellado and the duo composed of Cuban photographers Liudmila & Nelson was inaugurated in the Arte Revolución space in Havana, Cuba. Based on the curatorial work of its curator, Yanet Oviedo, the exhibition brought together a group of works that, under a joint perspective, address, as a fundamental theme, the concepts of time, present, past, future, crisis, transcendence, memory and illusion.

    In Hoy también es ahora José María Mellado y Liudmila & Nelson «indistinctly, from their respective photographic poetics and discourses, they explore the imprint, the transcendence and the limits where they are redirected and new ways of relating to “what happened” arise.» 1

    Mellado’s photographs, in this exhibition, refer once again to those concepts that constantly overflow into his work. The (a)temporality of practically immobile, stopped images, the silence of their scenes, the physical and psychological imprint of the passage of time, man and nature, the dichotomy between presence and absence. However, his way of creating, his quasi-pictorial hyperrealism, offer his images a dystopian sense of present, past and future that produce bewilderment in almost every viewer. And it is that reality, as it shows us itself, but through the eyes of Mellado, seems to us different.

    «While Mellado is tracing us a path without return, of clues left to chance, of immobile scenes that lost their continuity; Liudmila & Nelson prefer to defuse this temporality, in an illusory regame of permutations and pastiche of simulacrums.» 2

    Hoy también es ahora focusing his speech on the importance of the “now”, the moment photographed, the relativity of it, its belonging to a certain moment and the bastedad of concepts that integrates it.

     

    1Oviedo, Yanet. Hoy también es ahora. https://artoncuba.com/blog-es/hoy-tambien-es-ahora/
    2Idem.

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    Reviews in networks and media

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    Hoy y ahora de la fotografía española y cubana
    Hoy también es ahora / Yanet Oviedo

     

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  • Magazine interview Superfoto

    Magazine interview Superfoto

    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,

  • ‘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

     

  • Una Historia Posible – Exhibition in Avilés

    Una Historia Posible – Exhibition in Avilés

    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

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    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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    Foto José María Díaz-Maroto
    Foto José María Díaz-Maroto

     

  • Auction Photographers for the reconstruction of Ecuador

    Auction Photographers for the reconstruction of Ecuador

    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”

    "Cubo azul", 2013 Quito. 140 x 96 cm
    “Cubo azul” , 2013 Quito. 140 x 96 cm

    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.

  • Book “CLOSER” Reina Sofia Museum Madrid

    Book “CLOSER” Reina Sofia Museum Madrid

    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:

    • José María Mellado book author and renowned photographer
    • Pablo Juliá CLOSER exhibition curator and ex-director of the Andalusian Center of Photography
    • José María Mourelle editorial director of Photo Club

    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.

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    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

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  • Lima – Solo exhibition at Enlace gallery and Lima Photo 2016

    Lima – Solo exhibition at Enlace gallery and Lima Photo 2016

    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.

     

    EXHIBITION “LOOK IN THE EYE”

    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”

    Roberto Ascóniga, Curator at Enlace Contemporary Art

     

     Opening at ENLACE gallery

     

     OUTSIDERS GUÍA

    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

     

     Solo exhibition at Enlace gallery

    Photos by Montserrat González

    LIMA PHOTO 2016

     

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    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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    DIARIO EL COMERCIO

    REVISTA “CARAS”

    REVISTA “SOMOS” DE EL COMERCIO

    REVISTA “PRESTIGIA” DE BCP

     

     

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  • 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.