CLOSER-EN José María Mellado

‘CLOSER’ Mellado 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 clearly defined, 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

THE BOOK

C L O S E R

The book

The new photographs of José María Mellado collected in the book CLOSER, his most intimate vision of the landscape.

Mellado has become one of the most distinguished photographers on the current contemporary Spanish art scene, and his works are exhibited in museums around the world. Coinciding with the publication of the book, Mellado begins an exhibition with the same name, which will be traveling throughout Spain for at least two years.

In this book we find the Mellado’s most intimate work and without forgetting his particular vision of the landscape. This work will become essential within the extraordinary photographic vision of José María Mellado, in a very careful edition, in hardcover and the highest quality paper, which will delight photography lovers of all levels.

PRESENTATION IN MADRID. Reina Sofía Museum

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SELECTION OF WORK

C L O S E R

Selección de obra

Producción

This exhibition consists of 46 pieces with a format between 150×100 and 225×150 cm. They have been printed directly on Dibond with an Arizona machine and outdoor inks thanks to the collaboration of Canon. The result is extreme durability and allows unprotected display so there are no unwanted reflections or glare.