José María Mellado

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  • José María Mellado exhibits in “Galería de Espejos. 21 miradas andaluzas”.

    José María Mellado exhibits in “Galería de Espejos. 21 miradas andaluzas”.

    Until june 6, 2021 will be exhibited at the Andalusian Center of Photography (CAF) in Almeria, the exhibition “Gallery of Mirrors. 21 miradas andaluzas”, curated by Juan Manuel Bonet. One of the participating artists is, precisely, José María Mellado who shares the stage, this time, with important creators such as Fran Bascuñana, Laura Brinkmann, Pablo Castilla, María Clauss, Manolo Espaliú, Héctor Garrido, Lola Guerrera, José Guerrero, Claudia Ihrek, Juan del Junco, Camino Laguillo, Aitor Lara, Pablo López, Mar Martín, Antonia Moreno, José Muñoz Manuel Muñoz , Erika Pardo Skoug, Virginaia Rota and Elo Vázquez.

    Taking as a starting point the title of a book by writer Rafael Lasso de la Vega, “Galería de Espejos. 21 miradas andaluzas”, is proposed as a contemporary visual journey on Andalusian photography. In this way, the pieces by José María Mellado that are part of the exhibition respond to a curatorial discourse that focuses on mirrors, landscape and memory from an introspective perspective.

    Mellado’s photography is linked in a visual and conceptual way with the exhibition from the presentation of three images whose reading leads us to connect with that dreamlike and romantic component that underlies his creative production. Evocative, enigmatic landscapes of extreme subtlety and compositionally exquisite is what we find in the author’s pieces. And it is that his images make us go through a world of fabulations that appeal above all to our life experience where his images are the starting point to make our mind transcend to another plane of reality.

    Three photographs that do not leave us indifferent and that lead us all the time to rethink the relationship we establish with our environment, with our reality. Images that play with temporality, that dislodish our sense of the here and now to displace our senses to an emotional and evocative plane, which José María Mellado has not been able to define better when he expresses “man does not remain but the landscape does”.

    We share the interview that about the exhibition “Gallery of Mirrors. 21 miradas andaluzas” has been made to the photographer José María Mellado; an opportunity to know from the hands of the artist some of the interiorities of the pieces that make up this exhibition, open to the public until next June 6, 2021 at the Andalusian Center of Photography (CAF) in Almeria.

    Galería de espejos. 21 miradas andaluzas. Interview with José María Mellado

    We also leave you with the guided tour at the hands of the curator of the exhibition Juan Manuel Bonet https://youtu.be/mj9v14dpBSY

    More information at https://mellado.info/es/galeria-de-espejos-21-miradas-andaluzas/

     

  • 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