Fundació La Pedrera (Barcelona) presents a vast retrospective of photographer Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) that consists of more than seventy pieces that chronologically survey this artist’s career, from his early photographs to those created during the 1980s.
Madoz is one of the most prominent names in contemporary Spanish photography. Close to visual poetry, his work shows a constant inclination toward the symbolic through images that are characterized by a subtle play of paradoxes and metaphors with which the artist creates an imaginative and reflective world of his own.
Often impregnated with a delicate irony, Madoz’s images question reality as he invites viewers to observe and reflect, to discover the poetry that hides in the most common of objects, as he subjects them to subtle transformations that alter their function, context and use.
A recipient of the 2000 National Photography Prize, the work by Madoz is influenced by Surrealism and visual poetry. His images contain a magical and complex universe in which objects are never what they seem or look like that which they are not.