Chema Madoz, hero of Pepe Calvo’s PhotoSoul cycle

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photographer and writer from Alicante bald pepe presents a new offer this Thursday conference in loop PhotoSoul: history’s great photographersinside the festival photoAlicante. Chema Madoz The author selected for the speech entitled found item, bad itemto be done Thursday at 20:15 Miguel Hernández de la in the room UA’s Alicante Town University Venue (Ramon y Cajal, 4).

This cycle aims approach the public through a talk-colloquium to some of the image’s most outstanding artists, both men and women who have shaped the history of photography. A video featuring the most outstanding work will be shown at the event. (40 to 50 photos) the protagonist of the session holding a discussion with the participants.

The loop consists of: four digits photography. It started two weeks ago with teachers’ mentor Henri Cartier-Bresson and continues this week with two female writers alongside a great Spanish photographer like Chema Madoz. Nan Goldin and Sophie Calleworld-renowned for their excellence, whose work will be discussed in the 20th month May.

“The four are the owners of an original photographic work.Author and research lecturer Pepe Calvo, who has a long career in exhibition and publishing since 1973, is noted for exhibitions in galleries, museums and art centers in Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia. , Girona and San Sebastián, among other cities of Spain. His works are part of important museum collections like those of Spain. IVAMCharleroi Museum of Photography, Belgium; Museum of Photography (Donostia), Jenkins and Romero collection (new York), ROTTEN (Alicante), University of Southern Colorado (United States of America), the Gravina Museum of Fine Arts, and much more.

Photo: Chema Madoz Chema Madoz

“Chema Madoz’s work, like any other, takes place on two deviant species. surrealism And dadaismis associated with the extraordinaryness of the imagination. populated areas visual paradoxes It is based on concepts based on the surrealist heritage, creating wonderful images, where everyday objects become others, give them a new life with a different meaning, convey messages different from their usual roles. visual efficiency, a poetic It is not through the inanimate elements that it bestows uses other than those for which it was created,” says Calvo, adding: “Objects are the true heroes of his universe.More than delving into the poem itself, it brings together discrete facts that come into contact with the creative decision of the author’s inspiration in a kind of magical realism that has it as a background. trompe l’oeil at work René Magritte and Escherand poetry objects Joan Brossa or ready related to Marcel Duchamp“.

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