“STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL LIGHTS”

 

[….Maybe what certain landscapes transmit is a particular contemplative feeling, the wish to find there (again) serenity or, not to avoid the crucial word, beauty.

Jose Maria Mellado is one of the Spanish photographers who, with more strength, has built that visual experience of the natural beauty; let's have in mind that I'm talking about 'construction' because this artist masters the digital technology and uses it to achieve the scenery that he literally wishes.

"I enhance -says the author- the light in the image, in the most pure darkroom fashion to bring back the emotion and the atmosphere of that moment".

Mellado masters lights and clouds; wraps his landscapes with grayish colours, as suggesting that something is near to happen, that the pledges for the rainfall will be fulfilled.

In his empty roads, his enraged rivers and seas, in the breathtaking factories or in the vision of the city, a blend of intense poetry and, at the same time, weird unreality is conveyed.

There is no documentarism nor anecdote here, but the eagerness to convert the outside into the land for dreaming.

In some way, Mellado exemplifies, to the completion, that Paul Klee's idea: Art does not reproduce the visible; 'rather, it makes visible'.]

F. Castro Flórez (excerpt from El Mundo Feb 2007)

NEWS

24 Febrero 2010
"Photoshop 20th Anniversary"
Hotel Mirasierra Suites
C/ Alfredo Marquerie, 43
28034 Madrid

NewVideo "La Búsqueda del Instante"
Download

Instituto Cervantes
Cervantes TV.es Reportaje

Digigraphie Newsletter 18 More info...

December 18th - January 28th 2010
FotoDesk. The Gallery. Basel
Newspaper 1 - Newspaper 2

December 3rd - December 6th 2009
Arte Salamanca. Galeria Maria Llanos.

December 2nd 2009
"Encuentros con el Arte"
Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente.

Fuenlabrada - Madrid

December 2nd - December 6th 2009
SCOPE Miami Art Show.
Crown Gallery (Bruselas)

December 1st 2009 - February 7th 2010
Colección Alcobendas. Siete décadas de creación fotográfica española
Centro Andaluz de Fotografía. Almería

December 1st 2009 - December 6th 2009
Photo Miami. Galería Full Art (Sevilla)

November 18th - November 22th 2009
Arte Lisboa. Galería María LLanos.

November 19th 2009 - January 31th 2010
"Landscape: The Eternal Return"/ "Islandia"
Centro de Arte Tomás y Valiente.

Fuenlabrada - Madrid - See info...

September 17th 2009-November 15th 2009
"Landscape: The Eternal Return"
Fundación Metrópoli.
Alcobendas.Madrid.

September 17th 2009 - October 17th 2009
"El Silencio y la Luz"
Universidad de Magdalena. Santa Marta.
Colombia.

September 12th 2009 - October 24th 2009
"Fotografías"
Crown Gallery - Brussels

September 10th 2009 - October 31th 2009
"Wide Angles - Landscapes Through a Lens"
Global Art Source - Contemporary Art Advisement - Zürich

July 22th - July 26th 2009
Arte Santander.
María Llanos Gallery.

July 10th 2009 - July 21th 2009
"Fotografías".
Galería y Pinacoteca de La Aduana.
Colombia.

June 19th 2009 - July 19th 2009
"El Silencio y la Luz".
Fototeca de Cuba.

June 19th 2009 - August 31th 2009
"Landscape: The Eternal Return"
Biblioteca Miguel Delibes.
Collado Villalba

June 10th 2009 - July 31th2009
"Atmosferas". Colective exhibition.
Ana Vilaseco Gallery.
A Coruña.

May 7th 2009
NEWSLETTER Crown Gallery
Bruselas

May 7th 2009 - May 10th2009
MadridFoto 09
Fernando Pradilla Gallery.
Blanca Berlín Gallery.
IFEMA Madrid.

May 7th 2009 - May 17th 2009
Madrid Open
Caja Mágica
Blanca Berlin Gallery.

7 Mayo 2009 - 30 Mayo 2009
"Fotografías".
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Huila.
Neiva. Colombia.

April 18th 2009 - May 18th 2009
"Iceland"
Full Art Gallery. Sevilla

April 16th 2009 - Juny 14th 2009
"Landscape: The Eternal Return"
Espacio Iniciarte
Church of Santa Lucia. Sevilla

March 24th 2009 - May 24th 2009
"17 MILAGROSO Babalú Ayé "
Casa de América. Madrid

March 6th 2009 - March 22th 2009
"Objetivo 18-28. IES Puerta Bonita. 10 Años Mirando". Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid

February 11th 2009 - March 11th 2009
"Landscape: The Eternal Return"
Centro Cultural José Saramago. Leganés

February 11th 2009 - February 16th 2009
Arco09. Tomás March and Llucià Homs Galleries. Madrid

February 2009
Publication of the book "Islandia|Iceland|Ísland"

December 2008
Publication of the book "Landscape. The Eternal Return"