Press Release. Chema Madoz. GalerieEstherWoerdehoff. Exhibition : Tuesday January 26th 2016, from 6 to 9 pm. Opening reception :

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1 Press Release Exhibition : Opening reception : Tuesday January 26th 2016, from 6 to 9 pm Chema Madoz With a minimalist approach and a precise composition, the artist creates his visual poems, like small photographic haikus. Born in 1958 in Madrid, Chema Madoz has been spending the last thirty years creating a body of work that manages to escape the trends of artistic photography while constantly honoring it with the most beautiful tributes. In the influence of Surrealism, the photographer becomes a sculptor, on a line stretched between the real and the imaginary. By transforming objects, often utilitarian, playing with collage, juxtaposition, reflections, he then brings chaos in everyday life and seems to allow silent things to express their innermost desires. The views from his studio, photographed by Pablo Zamora for El Pais, show us a cabinet of curiosities both orderly and fanciful. We can spot some of the subjects of his photographs: a terrestrial globe -disco ball, a tie made out of rococo frames or a shoe with The Eiffel Tower as a heel. Some objects regularly return: scales, watches, musical notes, mirror or chess are also symbols of the human condition. The choice of black and white separates even more theses objects from the real world, the monochromy makes them timeless and allows us to focus on their shape, texture, and tones, like coming back to the origins of photography, when the long exposure of the daguerreotype forced the photographer to choose immobile subjects. Far from being a tribute to materialism or to consumer society, theses portraits of objects by Chema Madoz are a call to reconsider their use and their beauty. Magician of the silver printing, Chema Madoz prints his pictures in warm tones, playing with the small and large, with a format and an edition always carefully chosen according to the subject of each photograph. As soon as 2005, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery has been exhibiting the work of Chema Madoz, who was then almost unknown in France. Since then, our gallery regularly shows his photographs in exhibitions and international fairs. In 2014, the Rencontres d Arles offered him a major retrospective show that made him better know to the general public and Actes Sud recently published the French translation of his latest book, Les règles du jeu, which presents photographs created since We are pleased to present a selection of these recent works. Text by Florence Pillet, November 2015 For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by at sabine@ewgalerie.com or by phone at +33 (0)

2 Press Images Chema Madoz, Untitled, 2013 Silver-bromid print, 50 x 60 cm, edition of 15 Chema Madoz, Untitled, 2014 Silver-bromid print, 50 x 60 cm, edition of 15 2

3 Press Images Chema Madoz, Untitled, 2012 Silver-bromid print, 162 x 125 cm, edition of 7 3

4 Press Images Chema Madoz, Untitled, 2012 Silver-bromid print, 60 x 50 cm, edition of 15 The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to three months after the end date of the exhibition. Obligatory mention : Chema Madoz, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehof 4

5 Biography Artist Chema Madoz Chema Madoz was born in 1958 in Madrid. He discovered photography and printing as a self taught in the early 80 s during the creative burst of the Movida. The artist composes his photographs from a vocabulary of objects that he combines, modifies, and assembles to obtain unexpected marriages where Surrealism and the absurd are never far away. The photographer collects found objects in his studio, like a trivial cabinet of curiosities waiting to be revealed. Taken from a timeless picture book, shoes, books, watches or ladders have been photographed since the nineteenth century; Chema Madoz, the illusionist, defies the laws of physics and realism by extracting theses objects from their utilitarian banality to realize the dreams they yearn for. For nearly thirty years, his beautiful black and white gelatin silver prints depict the inventory of a transformed reality into visual poems. Solo exhibitions 2015 Sala 31, Comunidad de Madrid, Las reglas del juego, Spain Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain 2014 Angle de réflexion (retrospective), Rencontres d Arles, France Chema Madoz, Galerie Clara Maria Sels (exhibition part of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend), Düsseldorf, Germany Recent works, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris Livres, Sciences Po - la bibliothèque, Paris 2013 Ars Combinatoria, Fundación Catalunya - La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain Chema Madoz, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain Chema Madoz , Fundación Joan Miró, Mallorca, Spain 2012 etcétera, Galería Moriarty, Madrid Chema Madoz, Galería Alfredo Viñas, Málaga, Spain 2011 Ars Combinatoria, Netherland Photomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Œuvres récentes, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris Galeria Joan Prats-artgráfic, Barcelona, Spain Hermitage Museum, Kazán, Russia Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Chema Madoz, PDNB, Dallas, USA Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile 2010 Palacio de San Jorge, Cáceres, Spain The Object s Dream, Museum für Angewandtekunst, Frankfurt, Germany Madrid 2010, Galería Moriarty, Madrid 2009 Objects, Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Chema Madoz, , Museo Municipal de Málaga, Spain Poética, Instituto Cervantes de Tokio, Japan Chema Madoz (rétrospective) Espace Art 22, Brussels, Belgium Fotomuseum, Zarautz, Spain 5

6 2008 Chema Madoz , Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain Chema Madoz , Museo de Bellas Artes, La Coruña, Spain Chema Madoz , Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain Chema Madoz , Museo de Zamora y Biblioteca Pública, Zamora, Spain Poética, Instituto Cervantes, Stockholm et Manille, The Philippines 2007 Casa de España, Montevideo, Uruguay Chema Madoz, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark CCBB, Río de Janeiro, Brasil 2006 Chema Madoz , Fundación Telefónica / Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid Chema Madoz, Museo de Artes Visuales, MAVI, Santiago, Chile 2005 Chema Madoz, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris 2004 Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Il sogno degli oggetti, Cesano Maderno, Palazzo Borromeo, Milan, Italy 2003 Photosynkyria 2003, Thassaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece 2002 Sin Título, Fotoencuentros, Murcia, Spain El espíritu del objeto, Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 2001 Palacio del Albaicín, Noja, Santander, Spain Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 2000 Chema Madoz, Château d eau, Toulouse, France FOTOFEST 2000, Houston, Texas, USA Objetos , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (catalogue) 1999 Chema Madoz, Galerie Vu, Paris Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijón, Spain (catalogue) Montpellier Photovision, Montpellier, France 1998 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Museo Cruz Herrera, La Línea, Cádiz, Spain Chema Madoz : fotografías, Sala Rivadavia, Diputación de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain (catalogue) 1996 Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain X Encuentros de la Imagen, Braga, Portugal 1994 Espacio Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain (catalogue) 6

7 1988 Círculo de Bellas Artes, Sala Minerva, Madrid 1987 Jornadas Fotográficas de la Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid 1985 Railowsky, Valencia, Spain Cámara Oscura, Logroño, Spain Real Sociedad Fotográfica, Madrid Group exhibitions (since 2000) 2015 Paris Photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France Art Basel, Galería Elvira González, Basel, Switzerland Art Brussels, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Belgium Art Paris Art Fair, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Belgium Limaphoto, Galeria Trinta, Peru ARCO, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain Bienal Fotográfica de Bogotá, Fotomuseo, Colombia 2014 Art Basel 2014, Galería Elvira González, Basel, Switzerland 2013 Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, France 2012 Making History, Modern Art Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Phocus, Sala Kubo-Kutxa, San Sebastián, Spain Crear objetos/ fingir imágenes, Galería SET, Valencia, Spain 2011 Colección de la Fundación AENA, Centro Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain Colección Del CEGAC, Centro Torrente Ballester, Galicia, Spain 2010 Arte español en la colección del IVAM, Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, Shanghai Expo, China Nuevas historias, National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark Nuevas historias, Kuntsi Museum Of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland Vis a Vis, Aperture Fundation, New York Es Baluard, Museo de Arte Contempóraneo, Palma de Mallorca, Spain años de Fotografía Española Contemporánea, Ayto. de Alcobendas, Madrid Affinity Paths, Milli Reasürans, Istanbul, Turkey La mirada en el otro, Conexiones y confrontaciones, Palacio Nacional da Ajuda, Portugal 2008 Objeto de Réplica, Artiu, Vitoria, Spain Artistas y Fotógrafos, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid Razón y Sed, Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland Museo Anzoátegui, Caracas, Venezuela 7

8 2007 Fundación Astroc, Vidas Privadas, Madrid Museo Esteban Vicente, La Palabra imaginada, Segovia, Spain One Shot Each, Museet For Fotokunst, Denmark Affinity Paths, Museo de Arte de Cantón, China Affiniy Paths, Yonghe Museum, Beijing, China Diálogos con el agua, Deutsche Bank, Madrid, Spain Momentos estelares de la fotografía en el siglo XX, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain 2006 La visión Impura, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris C on Cities, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy Obsesiones, Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2005 Nueva Tecnología, Nueva Iconografía, Nueva Fotografía, Museo de Arte Abstracto de Cuenca, Spain Face cachée, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris Historia de la Fotografía en España, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid D.Quijote, una nueva mirada, Museo Casa Zavala, Cuenca, Spain Paris Photo, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, France 2004 Je t envisage, La disparition du portrait, Musée de l Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Ciuco Gutiérrez/Chema Madoz, Galería Bacelos, Vigo, Spain Tribute to Manolo Alés, Museum cruz Herrera, La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Spain Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Diez Años, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Nueva Tecnología, Nueva Iconografía, Nueva Fotografía, Museum of Contemporary Spanish art, Fundacion Juan March, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Agua al desnudo, Fundación Canal, Madrid 2003 Punto de encuentro, La colección, Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain Mano a Mano, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid International Festival of Photography, Samara y Togliatti, Russia Cuatro dimensiones. Escultura en España , Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain La colección, Consejo Superior de Deportes, Salamanca, Spain Ficciones fotográficas, Arco de Santa María, Ayuntamiento de Burgos, Spain 2002 Fragilidad, Museo Sofía Inberg, Caracas, Venezuela Journées Photographiques de Bienne, Switzerland Encuentros de la Imagen, Oporto, Portugal 2001 Museo de Historia y Antropología, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Museo del Barrio, New York Complicidades, Aspectos retóricos de la fotografía actual, Torrelavega, Santander, Spain Fotografía Surrealista, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium 2000 Fotografía y fotomontaje en la colección del IVAM, Fundación ICO, Madrid, Spain Fundación Municipal de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, Spain Optical Allusions, nuevas perspectivas de la fotografía española : Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain 8

9 The enigmas of the dream. Tribute to Luis Buñuel, Diputación de Huesca, Spain La Mirada imposible, Santander, Spain Awards and grants Bartolomé Ros de Photoespaña Award, 2011 Nacional de Fotografía award, Ministerio de Cultura, Spain, 2000 Award Higasikawa, Overseas Photographer, Higasikawa PhotoFestival, Japan, 2000 PhotoEspaña Award Kodak Spain Award, 1991 Publications (selection) Chema Madoz, Actes Sud, 2014 Obras Maestras, La Fábrica Editions, 2009 Nuevas Greguerías, Ramón Gómez de la Serna/Chema Madoz, La Fábrica Editions, 2009 Chema Madoz , Aldeasa Editions, 2006 Fotopoemario, Joan Brossa and Chema Madoz, La Fábrica Editions, 2003 Chema Madoz , Museo de Navarra Editions, 2002 Chema Madoz , Aldeasa Editions, 2000 Chema Madoz, Assouline Editions, 1999 Chema Madoz, PhotoBolsillo collection, La Fábrica Editions, 1999 Mixtos - Chema Madoz, Mestizo Editions, 1998 Chema Madoz ( ), Editorial Art-Plus, 1995 Collections (selection) Hermès Collection, France Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Coca-Cola Foundation Art collection Collection Testimonio, La Caixa, Spain Collection Museo Postal y Telegráfico, Madrid Fundación Juan March, Madrid Museum Marugame Hirai, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, Germany La Caisse des Dépôts, France Lehigh University Art Galleries, Pennsylvania, USA IVAM, Valencia, Spain Colección de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Patio Herreriano Valladolid, Spain University of Salamanca, Spain Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection, Helsinki, Finland Art Fund of the Ministry of Culture, Paris Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Fundación Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Siero, Asturias, Spain Colection Polaroid. Centro Andaluz de fotografía, Almeria, Spain City of Madrid City of Pamplona Museo Patio Herreriano Valladolid, Spain Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain Consejo Superior de Deportes, Minist, Cultura y Deportes, Spain Fotocolectania, Barcelona Es Baluard, Musem dárt Modern i Contemporari, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Fundación Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Siero, Asturias, Spain 9